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But don't you think it's rather rough, expecting us to have all the kinds of courage?" "Yes, it is," she assented. "That is why I say she was too exacting. But a man oughn't to defend him." Burnamy's laugh had more pleasure in it, now. "Another woman might?" "No. She might excuse him."
Only, I'm not idiot enough to pay more than the government makes me pay, and Sam and I were just figuring out whether all automobile expenses oughn't to be exemptions. I'll take a lot off you, Carrie, but I don't propose for one second to stand your saying I'm not patriotic. You know mighty well and good that I've tried to get away and join the army.
A silly enough conclusion; for on the law of chances there's no reason why red shouldn't come up three hundred times; and so I found that your run of bad luck may be so long that you cannot have a chance to recover, and are out of it before the wheel turns in your favour. I oughn't to have married."
But any how, Bartle, you oughn't to spake of Stags, for although Connor refused to join us, damn your blood, you had no right to go to inform upon him. Sure, only for the intherest that was made for him, you'd have his blood on your sowl." "An' if he had itself," observed one of Flanagan's friends, "'twould signify very little. The Bodagh desarved what he got, and more if he had got it.
Uncle Samuel, coming on at the last, in a dreamy, moody way, stopping on the bridge to look down at the railway-line, and then suddenly saying aloud: "Their minds are full of the number of boxes, and whether they'll get tea, and who's to pay what, and 'How badly I want a wash! and already to-morrow they'll be wondering whether they oughn't to be getting home to Polchester. All sham! All sham!"
He was quite a ways ahead, and I let him keep so. Soon as I was sure about him I knew I oughn't to frighten him by waking him too sudden." "Why, was he asleep?" This from Rufie. "Sure! But what he did was the queerest. He began dodging in and out around the sheds, and every now and then he'd stoop and seem to be fixing something. Then he'd motion like he was lightin' a match.
But don't you think it's rather rough, expecting us to have all the kinds of courage?" "Yes, it is," she assented. "That is why I say she was too exacting. But a man oughn't to defend him." Burnamy's laugh had more pleasure in it, now. "Another woman might?" "No. She might excuse him."
Don't you know but you don't oughn't you know, then, that Sol means Solomon, who was the wisest many and the biggest blaggard that ever lived! Faith, if I had lived in his day he'd be a poor customer to me, bekaise he had no shame in him; but indeed, the doin's that goes on now in holes and corners among ourselves was no shame in his time.
That young gentleman gazed at him in amazed silence. Gradually, a light broke in upon him. "Look here, Ike, what in thunder do you mean?" "I say, boss," said Ike persuasively, "just go easy. You oughn't to excite yourself. 'Taint good for you, and 'taint good for me, either. My doctor says so. I wouldn't persecute your enquiries at this late hour of the night." Ike's gravity was imperturbable.
"Now what are you coming in here for?" he asked, with mock severity. "You know you oughn't to be up so late. If Auntie Myrtle catches you!" "But I can't sleep, Daddy," she replied trickily, anxious to be with him a little while longer before the fire, and tripping coaxingly across the floor. "Won't you take me?" "Yes, I know all about your not being able to sleep, you scamp.
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