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All of a suddint a ice-wagon come rattlin' up behin' him. It was runnin' off, an' 'fore he knowed it a man hit it in the head an' veered it 'round towards him; Jim said his hoss turned a clean somerset, an' he was th'owed up in the air, an' " "Ma!" called a shrill voice from the Wiggses' porch, "Australia's in the rain-barrel!" Mrs. Wiggs looked exasperated.
"I've only lately found out what a coward I am." "You think you are," said the cabinetmaker. "There's them that's afraid to do, and don't do. Then there's them that's afraid to do, but goes ahead and does anyhow. That's you. I don't know where you came from oh, I heard Etta's accountin' for you to her ma, but that's neither here nor there.
Say, you certainly know something, Lucien, sometimes. So, Miss Whimple don't get married, and it's the icy mitt for anybody that asked her; and plenty did." "She's a funny old " "You say a word about her, Lucien Torrance, that ain't nice, and I'll knock the head off'n you. She's she's well, there ain't another like her except Ma." "I wasn't going to say anything " began Lucien.
Say, how long are you going to stay here? You got to stay always. We can just have booming times they don't have no school now. Do you own a dog? I've got a dog and he'll go in the river and bring out chips that you throw in. Do you like to comb up Sundays, and all that kind of foolishness? You bet I don't, but ma she makes me. Confound these ole britches!
Too long we have had this condition of affairs: "Ma" has been willing to work without any recompense, and "Pa and the boys" have been willing to let her. Of course, I know, sentimental people will cry out, that very few men would leave their wives in poverty I know that; men are infinitely better than the law, but we must remember that laws are not made to govern the conduct of good men.
Why shouldn't you have some of it? You can pay it back to me." "I won't do it," said Eugene. "We won't go anywhere on that basis. I'd rather go and work. It's all right, though. I can sell a picture maybe. I expect to hear any day of something being sold. What is it you want to do?" "I want you to come automobiling with me tomorrow. Ma is going over to her sister Ella's in Brooklyn.
Stoves were almost impossible to obtain at that time, but "Ma" was determined that she would bake pies for the men, so the Envoy constructed an oven out of two tin cake boxes and using a small two-burner gasoline stove, "Ma" baked biscuits and pies that made her name famous.
He broke off and frowned, for a vague, unpleasant memory obtruded itself. Something that had had disastrous consequences had happened in the quiet garden, but he could not remember what it was. "Why did Lucille call you ma mignonne?" he asked. "Doesn't it mean a petted child?" "Not always. She was my nurse when I was young." "Then you have lived here before?"
"You can't go home to your ma, then," said Philip, sharply, giving the child a shake; but this, instead of quieting, only made him roar louder, and his example was soon followed by all the rest of his age, and then there was a dismal chorus, the burden of which was, "Ma, ma, ma." "Oh! dear, dear me," cried Pepitia, in real distress, "what shall we do with these children? They'll drive me mad.
'Perfectly, dearest Georgiana! Mrs Lammle was proceeding with every reassuring wile, when the head of that young lady suddenly went back against the wall again and her eyes closed. 'Oh there's Ma being awful with somebody with a glass in his eye! Oh I know she's going to bring him here! Oh don't bring him, don't bring him! Oh he'll be my partner with his glass in his eye!
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