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Jest tell him what yuh want and he'll do it, providin' yuh don't hang around the camp too long. Gabby does hate company worse'n a dose of poison." Tenny lost no time in carrying out his plans.
Sometimes I think you an' Amabel would be a damned sight better off without me than with me, and I'm done for anyway, and it don't make much difference what I do next. "'Jim Tenny, you jest quit talkin' in such a way as this, says I, for I thought he meant to make away with himself, but that wa'n't what he meant.
Jim Tenny, when Andrew set the child down, caught her up again with a sounding kiss. "Don't you let your big ears ache, you little pitcher," said he, with a gay laugh. "Little doll-babies like you haven't anythin' to worry about if Lloyd's shut down every day in the year." "They're the very ones whom it concerns," said Nahum Beals, when Ellen and her mother had gone up-stairs.
To-night when she saw Eva enter the room, a lighted lamp illuminating her face fairly reckless with happiness, to light the fire in the courting-stove as her sister facetiously called it, she thought to herself that Jim Tenny was coming, that they would be shut up in there all alone as usual, and then she looked out at the storm and the night again, and the little home picture thrown against it.
Jim Tenny was handsome after a swarthy and grimy fashion, for the tint of the leather seemed to have become absorbed into his skin. His black mustache bristled roughly, but his face was freer than usual from his black beard-stubble, because the day before had been Sunday and he had shaved.
"Yes, I be," was all Eva replied, and Fanny stared at her; she was so purely normal in her inconsistency as to seem almost the other thing. The preparations for the wedding went on, but Eva never seemed as happy as she had done before the closing of Lloyd's. Jim Tenny could get no more work, and neither could Andrew.
"Well, I am glad he has done that much," said Fanny, "but I won't say a word as long as you ain't hurt." With that she went into the kitchen, and Ellen and Andrew heard the dishes rattle. "Your mother's been dreadful nervous," whispered Andrew. He looked at Ellen meaningly. Both of them thought of poor Eva Tenny.
I'm going to put five on Tenny for this next race. And you'll lend me the five, won't you?" A chance in life is like worldly greatness to which, indeed, it is commonly a requisite preliminary. Some are born with it, some achieve it, and some have it thrust upon them. There is a youth who has had it thrust upon him. What he will do with it remains to be seen.
I don't want to be carried away because I'm out of work, though, God knows, it's hard enough." "I don't know what's goin' to become of us," said Joseph Atkins then he coughed. "I don't," Jim Tenny said, bitterly. "And God knows I don't," cried Eva, and she sat down in the nearest chair, flung up her hands before her face, and wept.
After dinner Eva Tenny and her little girl came in, and Ellen went down street on an errand. Mrs. Zelotes Brewster was crossing her yard to her son's house when she saw Ellen passing, and paused to gaze at her with that superb pride which pertains to self and is yet superior to it. It was the idealized pride of her own youth.
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