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Before she went away she had been, to use the vernacular of the Settlement, "keepin' company with Jim-Ed A'ki'son;" and now, to her, the young man seemed to unite and concentrate in his person all that she had been wont to persuade herself she had outgrown. To be sure, she not seldom caught herself dropping back comfortably into the old conditions.
"Yes, I might," said she, with what she considered rather withering smartness; "but I ain't a-goin' to." "Ye'll be tired afore ye git home," he persisted, encouraged by finding that she would talk back at him. "James-Ed A'ki'son," she declared, with emphasis, "if ye think I'm a-goin' to be beholden to you fer a lift home, ye're mistaken, that's all."
But, Liz, I don't allow as it's right an' proper fer even you to look down the way ye do on the place ye was born in an' the folks ye was brung up with." "My!" thought the girl to herself, "he's got some spunk, after all, to git off such a speech as that, an' to rake me over the coals, too!" But aloud she retorted, "Who's a-lookin' down on anybody, Jim-Ed A'ki'son?
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