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Well, I talked along to him till I worked 'round to shamin' him a little for havin' to be christened settin' up on top a bean-arbor, same ez a crow-bird, which I told him the parson he wouldn't 'a' done ef he'd 'a' felt free to've left it undone. 'Twasn't to indulge him he done it, but to bless him an' to comfort our hearts.
But I tell you Zip's a man, an' a great big man to the marrer of his small backbone. His luck's rotten. Rotten every ways. He's stuck on his wife, an' she's gone off with a tough like James. He works so he comes nigh shamin' even me, who hates work, on a claim that couldn't show the color o' gold on it, if ther' wa'an't nothin' to the earth but gold. He's jest got two notions in his silly head.
Buck Fuson is the wrong kind o' man to have round. He's ben a stealin' my co'n now fer two weeks and mo'. Ef I kin ketch him right out, and give him a fa'r shamin', he'll quit the Turkey Tracks fer good. So fer as Elmiry and the chaps is consarned, they'll be better off without Buck 'n what they is with him."
The pines, every onct so often, shamed 'em till they blushed deep red, that comes 'long 'bout spring an' fall, but no 'mount o' shamin' ever started them int' springin' up an' seein' fur themselves an' givin' the poplars the lie! Don't ye place no dependence on a poplar, Janet, they be shivery, whisperin' critters!
And 'tennyrate they're here, the problem that lays so heavy on the Southern and Northern heart and conscience and the riddle gits harder and harder to solve. The lurid blaze of livin' torches makes bloody blindness in the eyes of them that look on and light them fires. The disgraceful glare flames out, shamin' you in the eyes of the world, and streams up to the pityin' heavens askin' for justice.
"What for, I wonder, could she be after making a fool of hersilf, and shamin' her swate soul with lies, for the like of you!" "Sir," said Lorison, trembling, "say what you please of me. Doubt it as you must, I will yet prove my gratitude to you, and my devotion to her. But let me speak to her once now, let me kneel for just one moment at her feet, and " "Tut, tut!" said the priest.
I was a coward and could not, and in my fear I destroyed the only thing that could have saved her the mother-love. Now she will run her course. She's her own mistress; no one can compel her to do anything." The captain raised his clenched hand: "Bart will, when he comes." "How?" "By claimin' the boy and shamin' her before the world, if she don't.
Well, I talked along to him till I worked 'round to shamin' him a little for havin' to be christened settin' up on top a bean-arbor, same ez a crow-bird, which I told him the parson he wouldn't 'a' done ef he 'd 'a' felt free to 've left it undone. 'Twasn't to indulge him he done it, but to bless him an' to comfort our hearts.
Then I'll throw him down in front of her an' ask her if she c'n kiss the life back into his lips!" Calder was actually shaking with excitement, but he was wise enough not to speak. "Tex!" "Ay, lad." "But when I've choked his damned life away " "Yes?" "Ay, lad." "There'll be five more that seen her shamin' me. Tex all hell is bustin' loose inside me!"
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