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He held it in his big, rough hand, toying nervously with the tiny fingers. "I wouldn't do nothin' that you wasn't a-wantin', Poll. I was just a tryin' to help yer, only I I never seem to know how." She turned to him with tear-dimmed eyes, and rested her hands on his great, broad shoulders, and he saw the place where he dwelt in her heart.
Come, let us sit down and talk a little until you are yourself again. Auntie Sue must not see you like this. We don't want to let her know anything about it. You won't tell her, will you?" "I ain't aimin' ter tell nobody," said Judy, between sobs. "I sure ain't a-wantin' ter make no trouble, not for Auntie Sue, nohow. She's been powerful good ter me."
The proud face of Frederick Graves rose before her. She turned away with a groan. Young misinterpreted her expression. "Circumstances have made you a squatter.... Sit down. I want to say more to you, Tess. Don't say you won't marry me, just yet. When your father comes home, we will talk to him about it.... I love you, child." "My Daddy air a-wantin' me with him," faltered Tess.
Of co'se, he'd know they wouldn't hardly be hay in it no, ez you say, 'nor a calf. No doubt wife'll be a-wantin' one o' these cow-topped ones quick ez she sees Josh's wife's. She'll see the p'int in a minute of the cow, I mean. But, of co'se, I wouldn't think o' gittin' her the same thing Josh's got for Helen, noways. We're too near neighbors for that.
'Why, for sure He will. Betty gave a happy little sigh. 'I tell you what, now, Reuben added; 'if you're a-wantin' to have tribbylation made clear to you, I'll take you down to see old Jenny praychin' Jenny, she used to be called for she used to hold forth in chapel bettern than a parson.
She had heard the subject discussed and argued from her babyhood days. The best fish in the waters must be kept for the gentlemen who came for sport during the season. But the fishermen, who needed bread for their families, were forced by the law to go without. "There oughtn't to be no laws about fishin'," she frowned, in decision. "It air wicked, when brats air a-wantin' bread and beans."
I knew that he had a dretful hard time on't, what with his wife a-fallin' in love with another man which is always hard to bear and etcetry. And I always approved of his doin's. He never tried to go West to git a divorce. No; he merely sez to her, when she knelt at his feet a-wantin' to make up with him, he sez, "Live so that in Heaven thou shalt be Arthur's true wife, and not another's."
She thowt as she might be a-wantin' of these after you an' Miss Faith was a-gone, maybe. Mrs. Rollston it is." Each young girl acknowledged the introduction with a pleasant little nod, and a murmured, "Happy to meet you, Mrs. Rollston," so precisely similar in voice and manner that she could not help an amused smile; yet, even here she could detect that same subtle difference in the expression.
An' Auntie Sue was there helpin' weuns; an' Tom Warden an' some other folks they was there, too; an' they done fixed hit so that I was ter go an' live with Auntie Sue; an' pap, he give me ter her. He sure did, Mr. Burns, an' I ain't a-wantin' ter go with him, no more." The poor girl's shrill monotone broke, and her twisted body shook with her sobs.
But the fellers stuck it onto me 'cause 'cause onct I went to a Sunday-school." "Don't you go now, Nick Dodd?" "No, indeedy! Ketch me!" laughed the boy, watching the gleam of the money his questioner held so lightly between her gloved fingers. What if she should drop it! If some other child should see it fall and seize it before he could! "Was was you a-wantin' somethin' of me, lady?"
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