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They lived on the same street, but never did Edward enter Captain Abner's bank, never did Captain Abner pass Edward's house always he crossed over to the opposite side.
"That made me sort of mad. 'No, I ain't, I says again; 'and if you ask me, I'd say one in the house was enough, and to spare. "'I know you don't like Bennie, she says. "''Taint that, says I, which was a lie. 'It ain't that, I says; 'but somehow I don't seem to fit around here. Bennie and me, we don't seem to belong together. "'He is Abner's brother, she says, 'and I promised Abner.
"You can see the Lumleys' place from your window, Cassy," said Black Andy, grimly. "We got a mortgage on it, and foreclosed it, and it's ours now; and Jerry Lumley's stock-riding for us. Anyhow, he's better off than Abner, or Abner's wife." Cassy turned at the door and faced him.
You see he was in the same regiment with the Perfesser an' he knows all about him, same as you found out, and Strout don't talk big afore him. The fact is, the Perfesser hain't many friends. There was Abner Stiles. They two used to be as thick as molasses, but since Strout wouldn't give him the job in the grocery that he'd promised him, Abner's gone back on him."
Felix went to where the black mare lay and passed his hand down her smooth neck. She whinnied and thrust her soft nose against his cheek, but would make no effort to move. He stood for a moment thinking deeply. Very clearly did he understand Abner's unreasoning desire to go forward, but, perhaps because he was only a boy, he did not feel that same wish so completely and passionately.
Aroused by Abner's insistent words, Perez took Desire's hand, and said desperately: "Won't you come, my darling? You shall have a woman to go with you, and we'll be married as soon as we're over the border. I know it's sudden, but you see I can't wait, and I thought you liked me a little. Won't you come, now?" "Oh, no! Oh, no! I don't want to," she said, shuddering and drawing her hand away.
They looked at Abner's bigness with their own big eyes though ignored by him, his interest being, despite his former championship of them, less in children than in "the child" and envied him her acquaintance; and they began to ask that very evening how soon the admirable Medora might swim into their ken.
Did you see Abner's face when he spoke 'bout that man as seed me in Sonora? Warn't it good as the minstrels? Oh, it's too much!" and, striking his leg with the palm of his hand, he almost threw himself from the bed in a paroxysm of laughter, a paroxysm that, nevertheless, appeared to be half real and half affected. "Is that photograph hers?" said York in a low voice, after a slight pause. "Hers?
But what is the object, may I ask, of your prowling about the house with this poor little girl at this hour of night?" "Why, what time is it? I thought by my feelings it must have been daybreak long enough ago." It was Abner's private opinion that Polly would do well to think less of her "feelings" now and always; but he only said, consulting his watch,
We are in the old town again." Phil Forrest pulled aside the curtain and peered out from his berth into the railroad yards, the bright May sunshine flooding the old familiar scenes at Edmeston. Far off he could just make out the red brick chimney of his Uncle Abner's home.
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