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Then she turns up her nose because hobos and bums ain't civilized. Did you ever see a ma cat get mad because one of her kittens was born with sore eyes? I guess not. Cats has got sense. Now, what if I don't indignify myself to the extent of crawlin' under that line fence?" "'Course I'll bring you the coin in the mornin'. But if you don't go now, why, I got to quit this job.
He was flattered by the friendliness with which Sylvester Moon, dirtiest and most skilled of motor mechanics, came out to serve him. "Mornin', Mr. Babbitt!" said Moon, and Babbitt felt himself a person of importance, one whose name even busy garagemen remembered not one of these cheap-sports flying around in flivvers.
The presence of the outlaw, if discovered, would bring him trouble; and Doble was so unruly he might out of sheer ennui or bravado let it be known he was there. "I'll get you the money first thing in the mornin'," promised Steelman. Doble poured himself a large drink and took it at a swallow. "I would, Brad." "No use you puttin' yoreself in unnecessary danger." "Or you. Don't hand me my hat, Brad.
And next mornin', when Mr. Robert makes a desperate stab to duck right after breakfast, only to be captured again and led into the garden, Marjorie finally gets her mad up. "Really," says she, "this is too absurd! Of course, she always was an outrageous flirt. You should have seen her at boarding school with the music professor, the principal's brother, the school doctor.
If the squaws can't go, too, I shall not quit them. Would you desert YOUR squaws because you thought them in trouble?" "An't your squaw yet. Bess not have squaw at all, when Openin' so full of Injin. Where you t'ink is two buck I shoot dis mornin', eh? Skin 'em, cut 'em up, hang 'em on tree, where wolf can't get 'em. Well, go on after anudder; kill HIM, too.
"Alf," he began, finally, "you've dealt with humanity, in one shape and another, enough to know that this is a sort of hide-bound community, and, well, you driv' off this mornin' with a good-lookin' young woman, didn't you?" "Of course I did!" Henley retorted. "What of that?" "You went toward Carlton, didn't you?" "I went to Carlton," Henley answered, restraining an outburst with difficulty.
"Abraham went to the mill this mornin' an' I came this fer with 'im. We were clean out of flour, an', although the roads are bad, there was no help fer it, so he had to go, poorly as he is. He'll stop fer me on his way back." "An' what's wrong with 'im?" asked Mrs. Stickles, going back to her washing. "The doctor thinks he's got delapitation of the heart.
Surely the perfect taste and dainty touch evidenced everywhere was not to be attributed to blind Nora. The little man was thoughtful as he turned to Old Hucks. "Who did it, Thomas?" he asked. "Miss Ethel, sir; the school-ma'am." "Oh. A city girl?" "No, sir. Crazy Will Thompson's granddaughter. She lives 'bout nine mile away." "Is she here now?" "Went home this mornin', sir.
Her fingers picked the strings lightly, then warmly, and her voice rose, clear, quaint and high: "Look up an look aroun, Fro you burden on de groun, Reach up an git de crown, When de Lord comes in de mornin When de Lord comes in de mornin!"
I only wish it was seven o'clock and the sun droppin'; he was a lazy man that invented Sunday; another day I'll away to the fishin' i' the mornin', and the folks can say just what they like. I'm not goin' to waste my time and my baccy lyin' on sand hills." So he smoked on until the sun reached its greatest height, and the afternoon shadows lay like dark pansies in the hollows.
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