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I'll bet she'll make you sit up, Jimmy." "I'll make her sit up," retorted Jimmy, who came next to Lizer. She thinks she's a toff, but she's only old Melvyn's darter, that pa has to give money to." "Peter," said another, "her face ain't got them freckles on like yours, and it ain't dark like Lizer's. It's reel wite, and pinky round here."
Sure you've got no sense. You'd had him dead if I hadn't come in." I walked straight to my room and shut myself in, and did not teach any more that afternoon. The children rattled on my door-handle and jeered: "She thought she'd hit me, but ma settled her. Old poor Melvyn's darter won't try no more of her airs on us." I pretended not to hear. What was I to do?
If I walked away from the house to get rid of them, they would follow and hoot at me; and when I reproved them they informed me they were not going "to knuckle under to old Melvyn's darter, the damnedest fool in the world, who's lost all his prawperty, and has to borry money off of pa." Did I shut myself in my room, they shoved sticks in the cracks and made grimaces at me.
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