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I've come out here for good and all." "Where did you think of livin' out here?" "I'd like to have gone to Lumley's, but that's not possible, is it? Anyway, I couldn't afford it now. So I thought I'd stay here, if there was room for me." "You want to board here?" "I didn't put it to myself that way. I thought perhaps you'd be glad to have me. I'm handy.
Set 'em up in dressmakin' or millionary or sunthin' to git a livin' by, and settle down peaceable with one." Mebby he'd hearn to me and mebby not, men are so sot in their way. But to resoom.
He was awful crazy; for if ever there was a harmless old couple and a harmless old woman, it was the Benders and Nancy Allen. And why did he want to kill her for livin' with the Benders? She had to live sommers, and didn't have any home of her own.
We had ten children but jes two livin now. My girl married a preacher and live at Hope. Arkansas. My son preaches in Parson, Kansas. I supports my own self. I works and I preaches a little yet. I saved up some money but it nearly give out. The young generation, some of them, do mighty bad. Some of them is all right. Some of them don't do much and don't save nothing.
She hadn't never offered to help mother, and she went off to the sewing-circle and told that Miss Langdon hadn't got no feelings at all, and she b'lieved she'd just as soon beg for a livin' as not. Polly Mariner, the tailoress, come and told mother all she said next day, but mother only smiled, and set Polly to talkin' about the best way to make over her old cloak.
A regular ghosty one. Up to the house where I'm livin' now." "What's that? Don't swell so with pride, aristocrat!" "Who's a-swelling? If you don't want it, never mind. I ain't suffering to give it away. Don't know as Miss Lucy'd like it, any way."
Havelot keeps on livin', which there's every chance of his doin', it may be many a weary year before you get Miss Agnes, if you ever get her.
I could have kicked him for that pleasantry if he had not been just then too important a personage to kick. As it was, his chance remark knocked my errand out of my head, momentarily. "How's the old man, Ros?" he whispered. "They tell me it's brought on by high livin', champagne wine and such. Is it?" "Phin," said I, ignoring the question, "would you stay up all night for twenty dollars?"
But law, Ishmael! ever sense Hannah has been teechin them young uns o ourn to reede there primmers, shes jest got to be the orfullest Bloo Stokkin as evver was. Dont tell her I sed so tho, for she ralely is wun of the finest wimmin livin and Ime prowd of her and her young uns. So no more at present onle kum.
"Ah, brush your belfry!" says I. "Your mind needs chloride of lime on it." But say, shareholder or not, I've got to plug the market for somethin' that'll pass with the landlady. I've been livin' on crullers and coffee for two days now, and that starter guy says if I don't quit hangin' around the arcade he'll have me pinched. I've wrote out a note to leave for Mr.
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