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Then a figure came out into the road a woman Julia! He took her in his arms as she came panting up to him. "Rob!" "Julyie!" A few words, the dull tread of swift horses, the rising of a silent train of dust, and then the wind wandered in the growing corn. The dust fell, a dog barked down the road and the katydids sang to the liquid contralto of the river in its shallows.
"Say, now, I'll tell yeh what I came back here fer t' git married; and if you're willin', I'll do it tonight. Come, now, whaddy y' say?" "What 've I got t' do 'bout it?" she finally asked, the color flooding her face and a faint smile coming to her lips. "Go ahead. I ain't got anything-" Rob put a splinter in his mouth and faced her. "Oh, looky here, now, Julyie! you know what I mean.
"You go back to the house an' tell y'r mother you're too lame to plow any more today, and it's too late, anyhow. To-night!" he whispered quickiy. "Eleven! Here!" The girl's heart leaped with fear. "I'm afraid." "Not of me, are yeh?" "No, I'm not afraid of you, Rob." "I'm glad o' that. I-I want you to-to like me, Julyie; won't you?" "I'll try," she answered with a smile.
They'll jest keep y' plowin' corn and milkin' cows till the day of judgment. Come, Julyie, I ain't got no time to fool away. I've got t' get back t' that grain. It's a whoopin' old crop, sure's y'r born, an' that means som'pin' purty scrumptious in furniture this fall. Come, now."
Say, Julyie, I hate like thunder t' see you out here; it ain't right. I wish you'd I wish " She could not look at him now, and her bosom rose and fell with a motion that was not due to fatigue. Her moist hair matted around her forehead gave her a boyish look. Rob nervously tried again, tearing splinters from the fence.
"It ain't goin' to seem much like one anyway," she answered with a sudden realization of how far from her dreams of courtship this reality was. "Say, now, Julyie, that ain't fair; it ain't treatin' me right. You don't seem to understand that I like you, but I do." Rob was carried quite out of himself by the time, the place, and the girl. He had said a very moving thing.
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