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In the simplicity of big things, her duty was to teach them, a future generation, no less than Feller's duty was to the pursuing shadow of his conscience. She should see war, alive, naked, bloody, and she would tell her children what she had seen as a warning.
"They reckon you're foolish, too, allus lookin' around where you don't need, 'cause there ain't any there. I've heerd fellers say you're crazy." Peter laughed right out. "Maybe they're right," he said, lighting his pipe. But Elia shook his head shrewdly. "You ain't crazy. I'd sure know it. Same as I know when a feller's bad like Will Henderson.
"I've heard my step-daddy-in-law say that a woman was born to be commanded, and when they ain't they hop to t'other extreme and just loll about in their abuse of a feller's good-nature. I don't know that's the old man's view. You might give out a decided order or two, Jim, and see how " "Not to a woman you are tryin' to marry," said the clerk, quite firmly.
"Feller's hopeless, that's what," complained Wid Gardner to himself. "It gravels me plenty." A muffled voice answered his knock, and he pushed open the door. Sim Gage was still in bed, and his bed was still on the floor. "Come in," said he, thrusting a frowsy head out from under his blankets.
It was a very well-considered insinuation of the judges, but the young-un stands about A-1 with a prime nigger-feller." "I should like to have 'em try me, to see whether I was a nigger or a white man. It must be a funny law, 'nigger or no nigger. If a feller's skin won't save him, what the devil will?" said the Captain. "Why, show your mother and her generation were white, to be sure!
"I dunno what that's got to do with it, but the feller's name is Paddington, an' he's the worst kind of a crook a 'tec gone wrong. At least, that's what they say about him, but I ain't got nothin' on him; I don't believe I ever seen the man, that I know of. He's worked on a lot of shady cases; I know that much, an' he's clever.
She would henceforth be frankly and avowedly a woman, but a woman different from those about her, giving up none of the leadership that was in her blood or the self-pride that was her birthright. One afternoon she met Jerry O'Keefe on the road, and with the old unabashed twinkle in his eye he accosted her. "I heer tell ther big feller's back," he began and the girl flushed.
"I guess that's something so," said Whitwell, with a long sigh of relief. "Well, I'm glad you can look at it in that light, Cynthy. It's the way the feller's built, I presume, as much as anything." His daughter waived the point. "I shouldn't feel just right if none of us stayed in the old place. I should feel as if we had turned our backs on Mrs. Durgin."
Ef thar's any fine, lively thing that will make a feller's ha'r stan' up straight on end an' the chills chase one another up an' down his back, you're sure to grab it off, an' say it wuz jest intended fur you. That ain't the right way to treat the rest o' us nohow." "No, it ain't," grumbled Silent Tom, but Shif'less Sol turned fiercely on him.
"Be economical, and you can save enough in three years to pay for a short trip. Bayard Taylor was gone two years, and only spent five hundred dollars." "Oh, hang economy!" drawled Clapp. "It don't suit me. I should like to know how a feller's going to economize on fifteen dollars a week." "I could." "Oh, no doubt," sneered Clapp, "but a man can't starve."
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