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She thought, mebbe, Tess'd take 'em to 'er." "Sure, 'Satisfied, I'll take 'em home an' the brat'll take 'em up the ravine next time she goes to the professor's." "Mother Moll were the only one of us all," Jake told Skinner, while Longman was in the shack, "what stood by Tess. She allers says Tess air a goin' to surprise us all. She says as how the brat'll be rich an' have a fine home.
"I wants to go home." She saw another tear roll down the plastered cheek, and repeated her operation with the rag. "What do ye want?" she demanded again. "To tell ye thet I air a goin' to make an hones' woman of ye. I's a goin' to marry ye. I knows I's a pappy, but the brat'll die, and he'll be forgot like yer daddy will!" Tess instantly froze into a white, tense little form.
"I dunno," Skinner muttered, "but I know this much, I don't like high born pups like him hangin' 'round my girl. 'Tain't fittin' an' I told Tess so!" Orn knocked the ashes out of his pipe and rose slowly. "Guess I'll be moseyin' 'long, pals," he smiled. "The brat'll be back 'fore long." "Wait a minute, Orn," Longman broke in. "Ma's got some pork an' beans she wants to send up to Mother Moll.
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