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The judge on the bench that'll send me to jail for it, he won't know what he's judgin'. My God my God! he says, leanin' up against the door o' the furnace room, 'to see her sick like this an' needin' things when she give herself to me to take care of! "Course there wa'n't no talkin' to him. An' the nex' night an' the nex' he come home bringin' her truck just the same.
And ma says, "Of course it puts him out of the world, which I don't believe; there's too much sin in the world to believe that; but anyway a man has a right to his opinions without bein' persecuted for 'em." All the time Myrtle was leanin' against ma, just like a cat, actin', I thought. She did make me terrible mad sometimes. Grandpa couldn't see through her.
And thinkses I to myself, we feel considerable pert now, and lively, but who knows in another three or four hundred years, but what one of the last of our race, may be a leanin' up aginst some new tree, right in the same spot, a watchin' the old places passed away into other hands, mebby black hands, or some other colored ones; mebby yellow ones, who knows? I don't, nor Josiah don't.
I could name ten men who, in the last few years lost their grip in their districts because they began drinkin'. There's now thirty-six district leaders in Tammany Hall, and I don't believe a half-dozen of them ever drink anything except at meals. People have got an idea that because the liquor men are with us in campaigns. our district leaders spend most of their time leanin' against bars.
I think, judge, it is a little dryer. Well, Anthony bowed, and left the room, and in a few moments he came back, set a lighted candle on the mantel, and, leanin' over my chair, said in a loud whisper: 'De cellar am locked, suh, and I'm 'feard Mis' Slocomb dun tuk de key. "'Well, s'pose she has, I said; 'put yo' knee against it, and fo'ce the do'. I knew my man, suh.
Then I spoke a God-bless-you, at which he smiled and shook his head, and leanin' over, touched my hand, and spoke low: 'When you see Shon McGann, tell him what I did, and say that we are even now. Say also that you called Heaven to bless me. Then we swung away from each other, and the troopers followed after him, but let me go my way; from which, I guessed, they saw I was a woman.
Evidently Sir Philip judged discretion better than valor, and the behavior of the two animals afforded the family much amusement. Thus deserted of all society save his own thoughts, Monty fixed a keener attention upon the slowly advancing pair, and presently exclaimed: "F-f-fudge! Somethin's happened. Uncle Mose's leanin' on her; she's a h-h-helpin' him! She's a w-w-w-wav-in' to me like blazes!
Thar was a kind o' corral about a hundred yards down the road, half adobe wall, and a stockade o' palm's on top of it, about six feet high. Some of the palm's were off, and I peeped through, but thar warn't nobody thar. I stood thar, alongside the bank, leanin' my back agin one o' them openin's, and jest watched and waited.
After rapidly scanning them, the driver said: "Do you see that tall man over there leanin' against a post?" "Yes." "That's your guardeen! That's John Fox himself, as large as life, and just about as homely." The man pointed out to Harry as his guardian was tall, loosely put together, with a sharp, thin visage surrounded by a thicket of dull-red hair.
But if you've been leanin' over the rail, lookin' on, and get pushed in unexpected, maybe you don't care so much about bein' nigh the center." "Then why stay there? Why not get out?" "If you're caught in the wheels, gettin' out's somethin' of a job."
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