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She was disposing of her flowers in ollas when Jim Budd, waiter, chambermaid, and odd jobs man at the Bar Double G, appeared in the hall with a frightened, mysterious face. "What's the matter, Jim? You and Hop Ling been quarrelling again?" she asked carelessly. "No'm, that ain't it. It's wusser'n that. I got to tell you-all su'thin' I hearn yore paw say." The girl looked up quickly at him.
But at last I seemed to have to speak up to Miss Meechim and say: "How strange it is that some folks think the less they believe the bigger it makes 'em, but good land! it don't take much intellect to believe in nothin', it don't strain the mind any if it is ever so weak." I guess he hearn me, for he kinder changed his talk and went to patronizin' the seenery.
"Hearn of Red Bill Summers, I op-ine," shot out the man with the red hair in a voice that rasped like a file on rusty iron. "I think so," rejoined Roy quietly, and Peggy rejoiced to hear her brother's calm, steady tones. "Wall, I'm him. You treat me right and don't make no fuss an' we'll git along all right. If not " He paused significantly. "Whar's Buck Bellew?"
"I hev hearn tell," he added, "ez Nate air countin' on goin' pardners with a man in Sparty, who hev got money, to work the gold mine." Now and then, as he talked, he glanced up at his companion's face, vaguely expecting to discover his opinion by its expression, but the light still played in a baffling glitter upon his spectacles.
Which it made Looey right low in his sperrits, and he shakes his head and says no good will come of it. "Did you ever hear of Romeo and Joliet?" he says: "Mebby," I says, "but what it was I hearn I can't remember. What about them?" "Well," he says, "they carried on the same as you. And now where are they?" "Well," I says, "where are they?"
"For," sez he: When Right opposes Wrong, shall Evil win? Nay, never; but the years of God are long. And he counseled his hearers to keep on and work work and follow the leadin' of Him who shall conquer all sin and evil. It wuz a grand and powerful effort. It wuzn't so flowery as I've hearn, but the strength, the pathos of it wuz wonderful.
I guess his legs would of been unsteady if he had of tried to walk, but his intellects was uncomfortable and sober. He is still keeping up that same old argument with himself, or with the picture. "It isn't any use," I hearn him say, looking at the picture. Then he listened like he hearn it answering him. "Yes, you always say just that just that," he says.
Bloke's friends, he will append such explanatory notes to his account of it as will enable me to find out what sort of an accident it was and to whom it happened. I had rather all his friends should die than that I should be driven to the verge of lunacy again in trying to cipher out the meaning of another such production as the above. Lafcadio Hearn Reprinted by permission of Boni & Liveright.
When we see, by the way, within a period of five years and at such remote points upon the earth's surface, such erudite and ponderous works in the English language issuing from the press as those of Professor Hearn of Melbourne, of Bishop Colenso of Natal, and of Mr.
Hearn came out, accompanied by Adah. They entered the coupe and were driven rapidly toward Fifth Avenue. I gave a long, low whistle, and took two or three turns around the block, muttering, "Gilbert Hearn, but you are shrewd. If you can't have the best thing in the world, you'll have the next best. Come to think of it, she is the best for you.
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