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If you were half a man if you were white, you wouldn't try to use that against me like you do." "I'm using it for you. Why, you li'l' spitfire, can't you see as Jake Houck's wife you get a chance to live? You'll have clothes an' shoes an' pretties like other folks instead o' them rags you wear now. I aim to be good to you, June." "You say that. Don't I know you?
"You sure do," agreed Wink. "Let's move along. If the Corwin family gets in there ahead of us we might just as well pull in our belts and beat it." "Let's go in through here," said Perry. "It's nearer, I guess." He started toward the first window. "Oh, we'd better not," Ossie objected. "They might not like it." "Piffle! They'll be tickled to death. They like folks to see their pretties."
Did she play about any cottage door and fashion daisy chains, as I have seen you do, my pretties, long ere you came to Machecoul or even heard of the Sieur de Retz? Hath La Meffraye ever lain in any man's bosom save as the tigress crouches upon her prey?" She paused and smiled still more bitterly and malevolently than before upon the two maidens.
"Nancy," he said, "are you in the habit of slipping into the cathedral when the janitor is not around?" "Yes, sir." "What for?" "Lookin' at the pretties, an' seein' if there's any nickels under the seats." "You want to buy candy, I suppose?" "No, sir, a bureau." Even the tired-looking probation officer looked up and smiled. "What does a little girl like you want with a bureau?" asked the judge.
Grief ran his eye over them and knew their value ranged from one hundred to a thousand dollars each, while the several selected large ones went far beyond. "Oh, the pretties! the pretties!" Mrs. Hall cried, bending forward suddenly and kissing them. A few minutes later she arose to say good-night. "It's good-bye," Grief said, as he took her hand. "We sail at daylight."
The girl's face flushed, and her eyes had that wide questioning look, as she answered slowly, "I don't know, Aunt Mollie; I ain't never seen a sure 'nough fine lady; I reckon them city folks are a heap different from us, but I reckon they're just as human. It would be nice to have lots of money and pretties, but somehow I feel like there's a heap more than that to think about.
When dey sol' anything from dey patch Mistis 'ud let 'em keep de money. When de boats went down to Mobile us could sen' down for anything us want to buy. One time I had $10.00 saved up an' I bought lots o' pretties wid it. Us always had plenty t'eat, too. All de greens, eggs, wheat, corn, meat, an' chitlins dat anybody'd want.
"Sho!" said Toby, slowly; "I wouldn't wanter sell the boy's pretties. I brung most on 'em home to him; but he mounted 'em himself." Nan suspected that old Mrs. Vanderwiller had much to do with the neat appearance of the cabinet. She was a quiet, almost a speechless, old lady. But she was very kind and she set out her best for Nan's luncheon before the girl from Tillbury returned home.
I vow I could live and die in that five-and-ten-cent store at Watauga. There was more pretties in it than I could have looked at in a week. I'm going right back thar Monday and git me them green garters that the gal showed me. I don't know what I was thinkin' about to come away without 'em! They was but a nickel."
Almost, it seemed, she could visualize the women who had kept their pretties and their family homespun in its drawers the women of those wandering generations who were grandmothers and greater great grandmothers of her own mother. Well, she sighed, it was a good stock to be born of, a hard-working, hard-fighting stock.
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