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"After he'd read his chapter," said Raven. "And prayed! God!" The invocation sounded as if he also prayed. "This time," she continued, "he he seemed to have a realizin' sense." She paused a perplexed moment. In the little she had said to Raven, he had noted from the first that she was often blocked by a difficulty in finding words she thought adequate.
"And some on 'em, not realizin' that our rinosterhorse boardin' wuz new business to us, and we wuz liable to make mistakes, standin' up on the ruff of their own barns, safe and sound, a-readin' the Bible to us and warnin' us, and we tuggin' away and swettin' with this wild creeter on our hands, and tryin' to do the best we could with it.
That's all right; you needn't trouble to say no. But you must understand that, realizin' it, I'm not exactly imposin' myself on you for pleasure or well, from choice. I'm so built that I can't shirk when my conscience tells me I shouldn't, that's all. I'm kind of tired to-night, and I guess you are. To-morrow mornin', if it's agreeable to all hands, we will have a little business talk.
It opened with the unexpected information that she wuz married. She had been married three years and a half to a butcher out to the Ohio. And I declare my first thought wuz as I read it, "Wall, she has wrote dretful flowery on wedlock, and its perfect, onbroken calm, and peaceful repose, and now she has had a realizin' sense of what it really is."
And he could afford that delay. He resolved, therefore, on diplomacy. "Well, I'm sorry," he answered with every appearance of contrition. "You fellers got me in the nine-hole an' I can't help myself. At the same time, I appreciate fully your p'int of view, while realizin' that I can't convince you o' mine.
You've heard of a man bein' suddenly rich and not realizin' it, or havin' somethin' given to him that he didn't know the value of, and findin' out afterwards. It was just this way." "Well," said Mitch, "why didn't he count it, right away, or was it diamonds or rubies?" "He couldn't count it all right there.
"I am glad, Samantha, that you have come to your senses at last, and have a realizin' sense of your sect's weaknesses and folly." And I wuz that wrought up with different emotions that I wuz almost perfectly by the side of myself, and I jest said to him "Shet up!" I wouldn't argy with him.
Mebbe realizin' it accounts for my grabbin' you that way, as much as the crazy boy's rapture your words gave me. I don't understand myself.... But the hell of this game is you can't ride away." "Lassiter!... What on earth do you mean? I'm an absolutely free woman." "You ain't absolutely anythin' of the kind.... I reckon I've got to tell you!" "Tell me all. It's uncertainty that makes me a coward.
I tell you it takes men to translate the Bible, they have such a realizin' sense of the weaknesses of wimmen, and how necessary it is to translate it in such a way as to show up them weaknesses, and quell her down, and make her know her place, make her know that man is her superior in every way, and it is her duty as well as privilege to look up to him."
Why, when a feller is all but convinced that he knows it all, one little bit of evidence like that speculation settles it for him conclusive. Elkanah, realizin' that Wall Street was his apple pie, opened his mouth to swaller it at one gulp. He put his profits and every other cent he had into another sure thing tip." "And won again?" "No. He lost all that and some more that he borrowed."
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