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She looked up with bright satisfaction, and twining her hands round his arm began coaxingly: "I'm goin' to ask you for somethin', father. You know you told me that on my birthday you'd give me most anythin' I wanted. Wall, I want somethin' this month, not next, as soon as I can get it a pianner. I guess the settin'-room would look smarter-like, an' I'd learn to play.
"Dun know, Miss; never seen him afore," said Uncle Ezra, "but he's got heaps of money, for when he paid for the pianner, he took out a roll of bills near about big as my two fists!" "Then the piano is gone," said Jenny sadly, while Mary asked how much it brought.
Some suspicion of this estrangement must have dawned upon the girl, or else she was irritated by his acquiescence in her various phases of self-humiliation. All at once she dashed the tears from her eyes, and winding herself out of his arms, exclaimed: "See here, George Bancroft! I'll jest learn all they know pianner and all. I ken, and I will. I'll begin right now. You'll see!"
"No," returned Uncle Ben quickly, "nothin'. Did I tell you, Mr. Ford, that she could play the pianner and sing?" "No," said Mr. Ford, curtly, rising impatiently and crossing the room. He was more than half convinced that Uncle Ben was deceiving him. Either under the veil of his hide-bound simplicity he was an utterly selfish, heartless, secretive man, or else he was telling an idiotic falsehood.
"She's so pretty and young. Jes' like a flower wants sunshine, she wants pleasure, and when she don't git it, she feels bad. She's so young and soft. Now she wants a pile of money and a pianner, and I couldn't git it fer her no other way. I had to cheat.
Some suspicion of this estrangement must have dawned upon the girl, or else she was irritated by his acquiescence in her various phases of self-humiliation. All at once she dashed the tears from her eyes, and winding herself out of his arms, exclaimed: "See here, George Bancroft! I'll jest learn all they know pianner and all. I ken, and I will. I'll begin right now. You'll see!"
Now she wants a pile of money and a pianner, and I couldn't git it fer her no other way. I had to cheat. "O Lord, ef I could kneel down hyar and say I repented with godly repentance fer sin and determination never to sin agen, I'd do it, and ask you to pardon me for Jesus' sake, but I kain't repent I jes' kain't!
"They want a young lady to play the pianner at a dime museum, for nine dollars a week. It's a bully chance. I just told the manager he's a friend of mine that I had a young lady friend that was a stunnin' player, and he wants you to come around and see him."
If he could only get a lady buyer up against a pianner, Mawruss, he could sell her every time." Morris tore up Mozart's application. "So long as a feller fools away his time, Abe," he said, "it don't make no difference either he plays auction pinochle or either he plays the pianner. Ain't it?" He opened another envelope and scanned the enclosed missive.
She looked up with bright satisfaction, and twining her hands round his arm began coaxingly: "I'm goin' to ask you for somethin', father. You know you told me that on my birthday you'd give me most anythin' I wanted. Wall, I want somethin' this month, not next, as soon as I can get it a pianner. I guess the settin'-room would look smarter-like, an' I'd learn to play.
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