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After a time the general chilliness penetrated even Williams's coat of polish, and only the clinking of the knives and forks broke the uncomfortable stillness. Dic was well avenged. Soon after dinner Tom and Dic returned. Tom went to the kitchen, and his mother said: "Tom, my son, your words grieved me, and I " "Oh, shut up," answered De Triflin'. "Your heart'll bust if you talk too much.
"Of course I am. Every man with any good in him is religious. One doesn't have to be a Methodist, a Baptist, or a Roman Catholic to be religious. But bless my soul, Dic, I don't want to preach." He leaned forward looking into the fire, took his pipe from his mouth and, as usual, hummed Maxwelton's braes. "If Rita were a different girl, my task would be easier," observed Dic.
So she dismissed the subject, and it left no trace upon her mind save a slight irritation against Sukey. Rita felt sure that Dic would come to see Tom that evening, and the red ribbon was in evidence soon after supper. Dic did come, and there was at least one happy girl on Blue.
Even if the story be nothing but a fable, as some men claim, the thought is a glorious one, and the fate ah, the fate but such a fate is only for God. If I can't help the suffering of the world, I wish I might live in the midst of Sahara, where I could not hear of human pain. It hurts me, Dic. Indeed it does. And this poor little dimpler I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
Get out of here, you young scoundrel; to come in here and take my ring away from me! Jove! I'll have the law on you, the law! Good-by." "I fear I should not have given them the ring," mused Billy when Dic had gone.... "It might prove unlucky.... It came back to me because she was forced to marry another.... I wonder if it will come back to Dic? Nonsense!
I shall tell my father and brother what you have done, and they will order you out of this house. I will tell Dic, and he will kill you!" Her eyes, usually so gentle, were hard and cold, as she continued: "There is the door. I hope you will never darken it again." She again started to leave the room, and he again detained her.
The geese episode is the best known fact concerning the Eternal City unless perhaps it is her howling." "Rome had a right to howl," said Rita, anxious to show that she remembered his teaching. "She was founded by the children of a wolf." Dic was pleased and laughingly replied: "That ponderous historical epigram is good enough to have come from Billy Little himself.
After a long pause Dic spoke: "I believe you are right, Billy Little. I should have brought her." "Believe " cried the angry little friend. "Don't you know it? The pons asinorum is a mere hypothesis compared to the demonstration in this case." "But she was not of age, and could not marry without her parents' consent," said Dic.
She had asked forgiveness of God, and now she would ask it of Dic, evidently believing that if God and Dic would forgive her wicked jealousy, no one else had any right to complain. She was justly proud of the manner in which she had accomplished the retreat movement, and really felt that she was becoming dare-devilish to a degree seldom, if ever, equalled by an undutiful daughter.
I supposed you had bought her for twenty-six hundred dollars you will never see a penny of it again and a bargain at the price. She is worth twenty-six hundred million; but if you could not buy her, you should have borrowed, stolen, kidnapped anything to get her. Now what do you think of yourself?" "Not much, Billy Little, not much," answered Dic, regretfully.
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