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He must have had a bottle of whisky in his room; she remembered his shyness when he said good-night to her. He stood in the middle of the floor, swaying on his feet and smiling at her. The flame of the light rose and fell in jerks and spasms. "I thought," he said, "I'd come to see m'little Maggie, m'little niece, jus' to talk a lill bit and cheer her up up." He drew nearer the bed.
Men were hustling to catch trolleys, with another trolley a minute behind, and to leap from the trolleys, to gallop across the sidewalk, to hurl themselves into buildings, into hustling express elevators. Men in dairy lunches were hustling to gulp down the food which cooks had hustled to fry. Men in barber shops were snapping, "Jus' shave me once over. Gotta hustle."
"Theah ain't nothin' in the pot, nor no pot neither 'less Kirby 'membered to stow it last time. Lordy, m' back an' m' middle are clean growed together, seems like." "Feast your eyes, man! Jus' feast your eyes!" Kirby unrolled his prized coat.
It's jus' in the breed, that's what it is; ye take to it as natural as ducks " Mike had a habit of springing half-finished sentences on his friends. "Yer father could roide afore ye; none better, an' Miss Allis can sit a horse foiner nor any b'y as isn't a top-notcher. But this beats me, t'umbs up, if it doesn't.
He began to hobble up and down, working himself into a white heat. "'S long as Ah live on this claim," he said, "Ah'll never go t' Brannon fer anythin', an' they'll be no trottin' back an' forth. Thet ornery trash over thar is th' same, most of it, thet fought th' South, jus' a few years ago. Ah kain't forget thet. An' not one of 'em'll ever set a foot in this house."
Jus' in passin' th' other day, when he was there, hangin' some shelves, he tried it, an' it was locked!" "Well!" said the women who listened. However, they were not unfriendly, these brisk gossips. Two of them, plucking up tardy courage, did call one afternoon.
She leaned forward and tapped his shoulder chidingly with two fingers. "I know what you wish the mos' in the worl' you wish to get into mischief. That is it! No, sir, I will jus' take you in han'!" "When will you take me?" he asked boldly.
"What you telling me about it for? Your brother'd skin yuh alive if he caught you blabbing it all out to me." Tomaso looked a little scared and uneasy. He dropped his eyes and began poking a hole in the sand with his toe. Then he looked up very candidly into Johnny's face. "Me, I'm awful lonesome," he explained. "I'm riding here and I'm see you jus' like friend. You boy like me.
"'M. Here Bud, take some o' this. Ah jus' natchelly hate to have you-all die o' starvation." "No, she's comin'. Ah see her now." And Bud ran to meet his wife and to relieve her of the baby. "Hungry, ain' he?" sneered Pink, as he watched his partner's alacrity, while Bob struggled to his feet to greet Melissa. "Say, you-all wasn' wantin' to buy a cow, was ye, Bob?" asked Pink. "Got one to sell?"
Tony leaned forward until he could see her face. 'Signorina, he whispered, 'jus' give me one li'l' smile to show me you are not angry for ever. The stage had stopped and Mr. Wilder was climbing down, but Constance's gaze was still fixed on the sky, and Tony's eyes were on her. 'What's the matter, Constance, have you gone to sleep? Aren't you going to get out? She came back with a start.
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