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"Gor bless you," exclaimed Barney Bill. "Nothing of the kind. Didn't I tell yer I've knowed him since we was lads together? And Jane lives there." Paul laughed. "In that case " "You'll be most welcome," said Mr. Finn. "This way." He went ahead with Barney Bill, whose queer side limp awoke poignant memories of the Bludston brickfield. Paul followed with Jane.
Wiggs saw their trap disappear in the twilight that she recovered her speech. "Well, it certainly do beat me!" she exclaimed, after a fruitless effort to reconstruct her standard of propriety. "I 've heard of 'painters' colic, but I never knowed it to go to the head before!" "Those there are whose hearts have a slope southward, and are open to the whole noon of Nature."
She thrust her hand into her pocket and drew out a pair of those smoked-glass spectacles so much affected by sight-seers at the Fair, and I was forced to smile at the strange metamorphosis of her face when she put them on and turned it toward me. With the small, sharp eyes, her most characteristic feature, concealed, the face became almost a nonentity. 'Would you 'a' knowed me? she demanded.
And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from ME, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double.
She called him Praying Jim Jesus till he got to be called that around. He prayed in the field. She said he disturbed her. Mama said one of the Ku Klux she knowed been raised up there close to Master Barton's but papa said he didn't know one of them that beat on him. "Papa never did vote. I don't vote. I think women should vote much as men. They live under the same law.
And before I knowed what to think, he sunk, and when he come up, I was there in the water puttin' out for him." "Yes, Joey " "I can't remember how I got there; must 'a' jumped in without thinkin'; he'd been so good to me, all along, and used to come to me in the nighttime when he 'sposed I was asleep, and kiss me; and cry But I'd 'a' done it for anybody, anyway, mother." "Yes. Go "
"Then what are we goun' to do?" demanded Mela, almost crossly. She was physically too amiable, she felt too well corporeally, ever to be quite cross. "She might 'a' knowed well known we couldn't 'a' come alone, in New York. I don't see why, we couldn't. I don't call it much of an invitation." "I suppose she thought you could come with your mother," Mrs. Mandel suggested.
I wish I knowed how they'd have their eggs boiled till I'd have them ready." "Sure it's on the table itself they'll do 'em," said Jane. "They've an elegant little fixture in there for the purpose." "Is that it!" Nobody found out how busy Fleda's wand had been in the old breakfast-room. But she was not disappointed; she had not worked for praise. Her cresses were appreciated; that was enough.
Everybody 'round here seems like they was tryin' to ride right into trouble wishful, 'stead of reinin' to one side an' givin' trouble a chance to get past. Gee Gosh! If I'd 'a' knowed what I know now afore I hit this country but I'm here. Anyhow, they's nothin' wrong with the country. It's the folks, like it 'most always is.
We've got to go back and rescue our comrades, Sol, and then we'll try to overtake their army and destroy the cannon." "I thought you'd decide that way, Henry. No, I knowed you'd do it." "Now, we've got to bear back toward the left, and then approach the cliff." "An' on our way find out jest what the warriors attackin' it are up to."
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