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Updated: May 19, 2025
"But-but," you say, trying to collect your wits against this left-handed compliment, "I don't think I differ from the average Easterner." "Oh, yes, you do. You don't notice it yourself, of course. But I give you my word, nobody will ever suspect that you are an Easterner unless you tell it yourself. They really won't."
It's just luck." "Well, I can't see it just that way. It seems to me just-like gambling. You win' but-but somebody else must lose." "Oh well, look a-here; if you go to lookin' too sharp into things like that, you'll find a good 'eal of any business like gamblin'." She said no more, but her face remained clouded. On the way down to the store they met Lincoln.
This occupied some time, and Zac interrupted her with many questions. At length, having told her story, Margot turned away. This startled Zac. "What!" said he; "you're not a goin' to leave me!" and poor Zac's voice was like a wail of despair. "Why, what ees eet posseeble to do? I moos go to ma maitresse." "But-but what'll become of me?" mourned Zac. "I may never see you again." Margot sighed.
I've got to get away from here away from Gypsy Nan don't you understand? It's death one way; maybe it is the other, maybe it'll finish me to get out of here, but it's the only thing left to do. I thought some one, some one that I could trust, never mind who, would have come to-day, but-but no one came, and and maybe now it s too late, but there's just the one chance, and I've got to take it."
"But-but," you say, beginning to come back, "I have no objection whatever to being known as an Easterner." That holds her for a moment. And while she is casting about for phrases with which to meet this extraordinary condition, you rally gallantly. "In fact, I am Proud of being an Easterner." That ends the conversation. Or somebody in a group asks you what part of the East you're from.
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