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If I'd only mentioned it to you this afternoon earlier, we could have been over and back by now." "Wait until Monday then, Phonzie." "Yes, but you ought to have heard her this morning, Gert; it's not often she gets her heart so set. To-morrow being Sunday, all of a sudden she gets a-wishing for one of the glass-top ones like she's seen around in the parks, to take him out in for the first time."
I HAD to shove, Tom I just had to. And besides, that school's going to open, and I'd a had to go to it well, I wouldn't stand THAT, Tom. Looky here, Tom, being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time. Now these clothes suits me, and this bar'l suits me, and I ain't ever going to shake 'em any more.
I HAD to shove, Tom I just had to. And besides, that school's going to open, and I'd a had to go to it well, I wouldn't stand THAT, Tom. Looky here, Tom, being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time. Now these clothes suits me, and this bar'l suits me, and I ain't ever going to shake 'em any more.
You'd be a-wishing yourself home again afore you'd tried it for a day. Don't you be a fool, Susan Peckaby." "Don't you!" retorted she. "I wonder you ain't afraid o' some judgment falling on you. Lies is sure to come home to people." "Just take your thoughts back to the time as we had the shop here, and plenty o' custom in it.
"The juniorest Palmer said he wished he was in Heaven." I really don't know, I do NOT know what's to be done with that young fellow; he's always a-wishing something horrid. He said once, he wished he was a donkey, because then he wouldn't have a father as didn't love him! Pretty wicious that for a child of six!
"Not if I wish it, dear?" inquired Mrs. Pepper tenderly. "Not if you keep a-wishing it all your life," replied the captain sourly, making another attempt to get his head from her shoulder. "Don't you think they ought to have their portrait taken now?" asked Miss Winthrop, turning to the ex-pilot. "I don't see no 'arm in it," said Pepper thoughtlessly. "You hear what Mr.
"That you can't never prove by me," answered his mother as she slipped a small gourd into the top of the sock and drew a thread through her needle. "Sometimes I wish the time when I could turn him barefooted from May to November had never gone by. But a-wishing they children back in years is a habit most mothers have got in common, I reckon.
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