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"Seems Mis' Doctor Helman had a whole wine silk dress put away with her dyin' things. She always thought it sounded terrible fine to hear about the dead havin' dress-pattern after dress-pattern laid away that hadn't never been made up. So she'd got together the one, but now she an' Elzabella are goin' to work an' make it up.
But they'll get nowt but a bag o' bones, and they'll have to be quick if they want 'em alive. Shepherd, I'm a dyin' man, and there's not a soul to stand by me or bury me. 'Yes, there is, I sez; 'you've got me. I'll stand by you, and bury you, too. If the police catches you, it'll be through no tellin' o' mine.
"What's the matter? Is he done kill de chickens? Is he done got away?" the old man asked, breathlessly. "No, he's dyin'," shouted Willy. "Hi! is you shoot him?" asked the old driver. "No, that other man's poisoned him. He was the robber and he fooled this one," explained Willy, opening the door and peeping anxiously in.
When he grabs a piece of property for the gang, he makes it look like we were dyin' of love for the dear peepul, and I do love to buy respectability reasonable. Wonder how long we can keep it up, Hank? We're safe as long as the good little boys like George Babbitt and all the nice respectable labor-leaders think you and me are rugged patriots.
"'You is de bes' frien' I got, Unk' Jube, sez Dan, 'en I'll 'member yo' kin'ness ter my dyin' day. Tell me how I kin git rid er dis yer ole witch w'at 's be'n ridin' me so ha'd.
"Now, although I chose to bring you to my cave, because I found ye a'most in a dyin' state, an' have let ye into one or two o' my secrets because I couldn't help it, seein' that I couldn't stop up yer eyes an' yer ears yet I don't choose to let yer comrades know anything about me.
There ain’t one in a million. They’re circling round in the hills out here now, waitin’ for me, like buzzards waitin’ for the eyes of a dyin’ horse." She rocked herself, and the clutching fingers left white marks on her face, but the eyes that met his glittered tearless: "Then there ain’t nothing left but to face it like a man?" "That’s all there be."
"Thank you, sir," said the lachrymose landlady, "an' I 'opes they won't 'ang 'im, which is sich a choky way of dyin'; but in life we are in death," she went on, rather incoherently, "as is well known to them as 'as diseases, an' may be corpsed at any minute, and as " Here Calton, unable to restrain his impatience any longer, shut the door, and they heard Mrs.
Then I was taken ill and couldn't answer his letters, and a cousin of my own, who had tried to win my love, did a wicked thing. He wrote a letter to him and told him I was dyin', and that there was no use of farther words from him. And never again did word come to me from him.
Betty was beside her in a moment, her arm about the girl's shoulders. "We're awfully sorry, honey," she said compassionately. "We didn't know that your father was feeling bad. Is he is he really sick?" "Sick of life, I guess," said Meggy, conquering her emotion and instantly ashamed of it. "I've heered of people dyin' of a broken heart, an' that's what dad's doin', I guess.
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