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She did not speak, but she was resolving silently: "I'll be good to him. I'll make him happy. I'll make up to him for this...." He shook himself. "It doesn't matter," he said. "We sha'n't let it interfere with our evening....Come, Miss Frazer, where shall we lunch?" All of Ruth's life had been spent in contact with the abnormal, the ultraradical.
"Well, I suppose I shall till this fellow is old enough to be talked to, and to be made to bear the burden of his father's care." "By that time, Harry, you will have got rich, and we shall all be in England, sha'n't we?" "I don't know about being rich, but we shall have been free-selected off Gangoil. Now, Mrs. Growler, we've done dinner, and I'll have a pipe before I make another start.
"It doesn't make one bit of difference and why I asked about it I don't know. You see, Mr. Bangs, I'm not back on earth yet, as you might say, and I don't suppose I shall be for a little while, so you'll have to be patient with me. All I can think of is that now I can live here in this house, for a while longer anyhow, and perhaps always. And I sha'n't have to turn Primmie away.
"I'm ready to grow old when my time comes, an' if I get there by the road some have took before me, I guess I sha'n't be put under the sod by any vote o' town-meetin'. As I look back, seems to me 'most all them that's gone before us has had their uses to the last. Think o' gramma Jakes!
He lifted his hand in protest against anticipated interruption. "I know that you have got to line up with your royal relatives. I know the utter impossibility of what I want but I'm going to win. If you regard me as a burglar, you may turn me out, but you can't stop me." "I sha'n't turn you out," mused Van quietly. "I wish you could win. But you are not merely fighting people.
I ain't no great shucks, but I can watch you, an' no one sha'n't harm you; an' Pa's more'n willin' t' see t' the house, an' cook, no matter who comes in as my wife; an' you kin run wild, an' no one will have the right t' hinder, an' I'll stand off an' watch, an' that's somethin'!" "Oh, Mark, please, please don't!"
As soon as we came into this fortune, or, more accurately speaking, after we had returned from our first trip to California and a short visit to Chicago, we adopted Kathleen. She was the daughter of a young woman who but, never mind. We sha'n't go into that. She was about two years old. At once it occurred to both of us that it would be a fine idea to have a boy to grow up with her.
The brown eyes grew round with delight. "For me? All for me?" The little hands went out eagerly. "You may play with them all you like. Perhaps you will want to pass them on to some other little boy when you tire of them." "I sha'n't never tire of 'em. I just love 'em. Oh, ain't they grand! Why, there's a whole lot, ain't they?"
"Look here, corporal," said one of the troopers: "if you are going to make us carry double with those dirty Greasers, I am going to kick." "Don't you worry," answered Bob. "I shouldn't do it myself, and of course I sha'n't ask you to do it. They'll have to walk. Springer, draw these Mexican gentlemen up in line." Springer gave the necessary order in Spanish, and it was sullenly obeyed.
Again he puffed for a moment or two in reflective silence. "All the same, Hi," said he, once more resuming the thread of talk, "I don't reckon to be too hard on you. You be only half-witted, anyway, and I sha'n't be too hard on you. I give you a month to raise that money, and while you're doing it I'll jest hang around here. I've been in trouble, Hi, d'ye see.
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