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Out from it, a face lying suddenly back flashed up at her, a mere petal riding a swift current. But at sight of it Mrs. Blutch Connors inclined her entire body, pressing a smile and a hand against the cold pane, then turned inward, flashing on an electrolier a bronze Nydia holding out a cluster of frosted bulbs.
A man that took a girl like like me that had knocked around just like my mother and even even my grandmother before me had knocked around took and married me, no questions asked. A girl like me 'ain't got the right to complain to no man, much less to one like you. The heaven you've given me for eleven years, Blutch! The heaven!
"Nothin', Blutch, only only I just never was so happy." "Lord!" said Blutch Connors. "All these years, and I never knew anything was eatin' her." "I I never was, Blutch." "Was what?" "So happy." "Lord bless my soul! The poor little thing was afraid to say it was a chicken-farm she wanted!" He patted her constantly, his eyes somewhat glazy. "Us two, Blutch, livin' regular."
"Of course I ain't, honey; only, with you and him goin' right over to Al's afterward, what's the sense of me goin'? I wanna stay home and think. It's just like beginnin' to-night I could sit here and look right into the time when there ain't goin' to be no more waitin' up nights for my boy. I They got all little white chickens out at Denny's roadhouse, Blutch white with red combs.
I've tried to tell you so often how, when I was a kid livin' at home, that crowd used to come to my mother's " "Now, now, girl; business is " "You're too good, Blutch, and too honest to be in it. The game'll break you in the end. It always does. Blutch darling, I wish to God you was out of it!" "Why, Ann 'Lisbeth, I never knew you felt this way about it." "I do, Blutch, I do!
Up to 'leven years ago it wasn't nothing, honey, for me to sleep on a pool-table one night and de luxe the next. If life was a sure thing for me, I'd ask 'em to put me out of my misery. It's only since I got my girl that I ain't the plunger I used to be. Big Blutch has got his name from the old days, honey, when a dime, a dollar, and a tire-rim was all the same size."
Joe Kirby, dark, corpulent, and black of cigar. "Come right in, Joe! I'm here and waitin' for you." "Ain't the missis in on this killin'?" "She Not this " "No, Joe; not to-night." "Sorry to hear it," said Mr. Kirby, flecking an inch of cigar-ash to the table-top. "Fine rig-up, with due respect to the lady, your missis is wearing to-night." "The wife ain't so short on looks, is she?" "Blutch!"
Sometimes, darlin', just sittin' here in a room like this, with no no reason for bein' here it's just like I " "Babe, Babe, you mustn't!" "Sittin' here, waiting for you to come and not carin' for nothing or nobody except that my boy's comin' home to me it's like I was in a dream, Blutch, and like I was going to wake up and find myself back in my mother's house, and "
Connors opened the door of her pink-brocaded sitting-room, her spirit rose with the soughing rise of the elevator, and Romance hardy fellow showed himself within a murky hotel corridor. "Honeybunch!" "Babe!" said Mr. Blutch Connors, upon the slam of the lift door.
I can go through with anything I make up my mind to." "Oh, honey baby, you promise! Darling little fuzzy chickens!" "Why, girl, I wouldn't have you eatin' yourself thisaway. The first ten-thou' high-water mark we hit I'm quits. How's that?" "Ten thousand! Oh, Blutch, we " "What's ten thou', girl! I made the Hot Springs haul with a twenty-dollar start.
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