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Do you know Grandpa Duff?" "No, my b-boy." Mr. Smith was choking over a cough. "He's sick. He's got a chronic grouch, ma says. Do you know what that is?" "I I have heard of them." "What are they? Anything like chronic rheumatism? I know what chronic means. It means it keeps goin' without stoppin' the rheumatism, I mean, not the folks that's got it. THEY don't go at all, sometimes. Old Dr.
I've never loved anyone else. That Connie business a b-boy and girl affair a silly flirtation this the real thing. I I'm a m-man now. N-no one's going to play fast and loose with me. No, by God! I'll see her she's got to have it out with me. I've a right to an explanation at least and by God I'll have one!" "For what?" Stonehouse asked. "She loved me," Cosgrave retorted. "I don't believe it."
As they bade the Dutchman good night they observed that he was looking "black as thunder" at the horizon. "W-wat's wrong, ol' b-boy?" asked Groggy. The Dutchman pointed to the horizon. "No use for me to shtop here, mit dat alongside!" he replied.
The sentence to be used crystallised in my mind: "Please, sir, I came to say I was sorry I was imitating you this morning." With this little offering I walked in the fall of the evening upstairs to his study. My knock eliciting a "C-come in," I entered and began: "Please, sir, I came to say " I got no further, for, with a sour look, he interrupted testily: "Run away, b-boy, run away."
Sandy surveyed her with tolerant sadness. Little her childish heart knew of the depths through which he was passing. "Do you love him very much?" he asked. She nodded violently. "Better than any b-boy I was ever engaged to." "He's not worth it." "He is!" A strained silence, then he said: "Nettie, could you be forgiving me if I told you the Lord's truth?"
"Oh, you did, you did!" she gurgled. "I thought you did, and now I know!" "Did what? What do you mean?" William's usually gentle voice was sharp. Even William's nerves were beginning to feel the strain of the last few hours. "Thought I was a b-boy!" choked Billy. "You called me 'he' once in the station I thought you did; but I wasn't sure not till I saw this room. But now I know I know!"
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