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Maggie's mother paced to and fro, addressing the doorful of eyes, expounding like a glib showman at a museum. Her voice rang through the building. "Dere she stands," she cried, wheeling suddenly and pointing with dramatic finger. "Dere she stands! Lookut her! Ain' she a dindy? An' she was so good as to come home teh her mudder, she was! Ain' she a beaut'? Ain' she a dindy? Fer Gawd's sake!"
"Wid all deh talkin' wid her I did an' deh t'ings I tol' her to remember? When a girl is bringed up deh way I bringed up Maggie, how kin she go teh deh devil?" Jimmie was transfixed by these questions. He could not conceive how under the circumstances his mother's daughter and his sister could have been so wicked. His mother took a drink from a squdgy bottle that sat on the table.
She vaguely tried to calculate the altitude of the pinnacle from which he must have looked down upon her. "I met a chump deh odder day way up in deh city," he said. "I was goin' teh see a frien' of mine. When I was a-crossin' deh street deh chump runned plump inteh me, an' den he turns aroun' an' says, 'Yer insolen' ruffin, he says, like dat.
Five more of you dismount, and deploy there on the other side of the road. All of you move forward cautiously, watching the dog, and make sure you 'save' teh whelp when he is run out." The men left their saddles and moved forward with manifest reluctance.
"Now, tat prate kot life in udt yoost teh same like your own selluf, Toctor. Tot prate kot yoost so much sense ass Reisen kot. Ovver, Toctor Toctor" the Doctor was giving his attention to Richling, who was explaining something "Toctor, toandt you come here uxpectin' to see nopoty sick, less-n udt iss Mr. Richlun."
He laid his hand on the Doctor's arm, and then jerked it away, and tried to blow off the floury print of his fingers. "Come!" He beckoned. "Come; I show you somedting putiful. Toctor, I vizh you come!" The Doctor yielded. Richling had to be called upon at last to explain the hidden parts and processes. "It's yoost like putt'n' te shpirudt into teh potty," said the laughing German.
But it opened and his mother's great form blocked the passage. "What deh hell's deh matter wid yeh?" exclaimed she, coming into the rooms. Jimmie gave vent to a sardonic curse and then laughed heavily. "Well, Maggie's gone teh deh devil! Dat's what! See?" "Eh?" said his mother. "Maggie's gone teh deh devil! Are yehs deaf?" roared Jimmie, impatiently.
"You look lak a rabbit skeered outen a bresh heap." "Marstah's stompin' an' ragin' 'roun lak a mad bull down thah," panted the girl. "He say teh fotch Miss Betsy to him to oncet in the settin'-room. She's gwine kotch it sho 'nough this time." "'Deed she hain't, long's her brack mammy's heah teh p'otect her!
He kept up the quarrel the same as ever, did he?" asked Harry, deeply interested in teh narrative. "Wussen ever! Wussen ever! He got bitterer ev'ry day. He laid his defeat when he wuz runnin' fur the Legislatur at our door.
Teh proceeds from TAO. To explain what the Chinese sage means by Tao, a word that signifies the "way," is a puzzle for commentators and inquirers. From Tao all things originate: they conform to Tao, and to Tao they return. There are noble maxims in Laou-tsze, precepts enjoining compassion, and condemning the requital of evil with evil.
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