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Updated: June 28, 2025
W'y, we even hed her educated her mother was a-livin' then and we was well enough fixed to afford the educatin' of her, mother allus contended and we was besides, it was Marthy's notion, too, and you know how women is thataway when they git their head set.
He said, at first, it hadn't none, but when I seemed a kinder put out at this, he told me I mustn't mind, an' he would reveal the whole. So he told me this story: "'My grandfather, said he, 'was a rich and powerful Portugee, a-livin' on the island of Jamaica.
Aye, she bes plump as a pa'tridge, a-livin' on the fat o' the land the fat o' all the wracks that comes up from the sea. An' a beauty she bes, altogether. Saints presarve ye, sir, she bes the beautifulest female woman ever come ashore on that coast.
But instead of branchin' out and makin' a great show, he jest kep right on a-livin' in the rooms he had took so long ago for his family. But they had all gone and left him, his mother dead, and his two nieces gone with their father to California, where they wuz in a convent school. And he kep right on a-livin' in the old rooms.
I ought prop'ly to stand on my rights, but seein' as you're a well-meaning young man, so to speak, an' all settled an' a-livin' 'ere quiet an' matrimonual, I'll" this with a burst of generosity "damme! yus, I'll compound the felony an' take me 'ook. Come, I'll name a figure, as man to man, fust an' last, no less an' no more. Five pound does it."
"Yes," sez I; "we would have a nice warm breakfast and supper at our boardin' place, and a good comfortable bed to sleep in, and we would buy our dinner here on the Fair ground, and we have kep real well." She looked enviously at me out of her pale and haggard face. Sez she, "We have both ruined our stomachs a-livin' on crackers and cheese. I shall never see a well day agin!
Ben relaxed his hold a little, and the girl continued: "The brat ain't mine it air a woman's on the hill. She didn't like it, and gave it to me, with a little money, till Daddy comes back." "Whose brat air it?" "A woman's I says, a-livin' on the hill." The words struggled through the fishy hand. "Ye'll take it back to her to-night, ye does; then ye comes with me to the shanty.
He knew that his eyes had flashed defiance before he had quelled their impulse and controlled his features, but he held his lips tight for a rebellious moment and when he opened them he asked with a velvety smoothness: "Ye says nobody didn't mistrust Caleb Harper. Why didn't ye ask him, whilst he war still a-livin', whether he'd made an heir outen a man thet couldn't be confidenced?"
Aint there some place where you kin go an' be quiet an' comfortable, an' not a-woundin' your proud spirit a-watchin' me bake hot rolls for breakfast an' sich? An' then she says she'd begun to think pretty much that way herself, an' that she had a sister a-livin' down in the Sussex Mews, back of Gresham Terrace, Camberwell Square, Hankberry Place, N.W. by N., an' she thought she might as well go there an' stay while we was here.
Ef I didn't b'lave ye ter be ez true ez steel ye shouldn't tech hit, fur hit b'longed ter the truest man in this livin' world." "Hit wuz her husband's," explained Fortner, as her lips met firmly, as if choking down bitter memories. "I'm givin' hit ter ye ter use ez he'd a-used hit ef he war a-livin'," she said, steadying her tones with a perceptible effort.
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