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"What did he say about the letter?" "Said 'twas for you. And the chauffeur said Mr. Colton told him to mail it right off. 'Twan't for you, was it, Ros?" "Yes." "It WAS! Well, by time! What did a man like Mr. Colton write to you about?" Among his other lackings Lute was conspicuously short of tact. This was no time for him to ask me such a question, especially to emphasize the "you."
Yellett; "it be a hard blow to me to know that my sons are lackings; there’s mothers I know as would give vent to their disapp’inted ambition in ways I’d consider crool to the absent-minded. Now hearken, the whole outfit of you!
"’They sez’ is easy talkin’, shore ’nuff," mumbled Mrs. Rodney, as she helped herself to butter with her own knife. "A sharp from the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, he said it, and he has taken back speciments with him." "Ye can’t keep lackings from freightin’ round speciments—naw, sir, ye can’t, not till the fool-killer has finished his job."
Untutored she might be, uncouth of speech, unlearned in all those things, in fact, which the women he had known had ever held most valuable, but her compensating virtues had begun to take upon themselves their actual values values so overwhelming in their magnitude that her few lackings grew to seem continually less important in his mind.
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