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Irish's been three times around his rosary before he got the scare kinks out of him, and between Irish bein' pathetic, and the Mayor and his sojers comin' out pink and going back jammed to the colour of canned salmon, my feelin's is worked up to bust. What makes a man act so? It must be he has cats in him." He pulled his moustache and looked gloomy, and I judged his remorse was sincere.
She hez me, an' I oughter be more ter her than a duzzen childern, but she ain't got no proper feelin's, Penel ain't. When I'm a' lyin' in my coffin she'll give her eyes ter hev the chance ter rub my rheumatiz, an' run for hot bottles an' flannels an' ginger tea.
"I " he began, and stopped. "I " prompted Swing. "I what?" smiled Racey. "Speak right out, Peaches. Don't you care if you do hurt our feelin's. They're tough. They can stand it. Say what's on yore mind." But Peaches did not say what was on his mind. He turned about and walked hurriedly away. "So it was Jack Harpe who picked the cuffs," murmured Racey.
"'That's all right, Colonel, says the head-printer, 'about c'llapsin'; an' I onderstands your feelin's an' symp'thises tharwith. But I've explained to you the financial condition of this movement. Thar stands the boys, pourin' in the first fire-water that has passed their lips for a day. An' you knows, Colonel, no gent, nor set of gents, can conduct strikes to a successful issue without whiskey.
Though it doan't matter a brass farthin' to me what 'ee says." "He says you 'aven't got no proper feelin's about poor Eliza, an' you'd ought to have done a great deal more for Louisa. But 'ee says you allus were a mean one with your money an' you knew that 'ee knew it for 'ee'd stopped you takin' an unfair advantage more nor once.
And as fer your soul, it's a hell of rage and dirty feelin's that I'd hate to burn my eyes by lookin' closely at." A deep, short, alarming chorus of laughter interrupted the speech. The speaker evidently had her audience. "So you don't own anything to-night," went on the extraordinary, deliberate voice; "surely you don't own Mabel. You can't get a claim on her, not thataway. She's her own.
"Well," sez he, "I'm a deacon and I can't bear the thought of religious interests languishin' for my help." Sez I, "Seven folks wuz baptized last Sunday: the meetin' house wuz never so prosperous." And then he went on and said political ties wuz drawin' him, and he brung up fatherly feelin's for the children, and cuttin' up burdocks, and buildin' stun walls, and etcetery.
"Mother always said young women shouldn't be forward, and speak their minds before they're asked; Oh! I never forget what mother told me. Tis a pity Hurry is so handsome, Deerslayer; I do think fewer girls would like him then, and he would sooner know his own mind." "Poor gal, poor gal, it's plain enough how it is, but the Lord will bear in mind one of your simple heart and kind feelin's!
He wanted to go to the Live-Stock Exhibit that day wanted to like a dog. But I persuaded him off the notion, and I don't know but I jest as soon tell how I done it. I see Columbus's feelin's wouldn't do, and so forth, nor sentiment, nor spirituality, don't appeal to Josiah Allen nothin' as vittles do.
He reached out a hand for the locket. But Uncle William held it a moment, looking down at it. "Things happen to her every day," he said. "You can see that, plain enough. She don't hev to be most drowned to hev feelin's." He looked up. "When you goin' to be married?" "Not till we can afford it years." The tone was somber. Uncle William shook his head. "Now, I wouldn't talk like that, Mr.
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