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Give the kid a chanst. So the gipsies, very much against their will, went off to their work, and the children and the Lamb were left sitting on the grass. 'He'll be all right at sunset,'Jane whispered. 'But, oh, it is awful! Suppose they are frightfully angry when they come to their senses! They might beat us, or leave us tied to trees, or something. 'No, they won't, Anthea said.
"I wish I could take you home with me, Nan," he said simply. There was age-old wisdom in the dark eyes when they were lifted to his. "No, you don't," she said firmly. "Your mammy would call me a little heathen, same as she used to; and I reckon that's what I am I hain't had no chanst to be anything else. And you're goin' to be a preacher, Tom."
The two neighbor women had come back into the room where Aaron McGivins lay wounded. The man himself, reassured by the presence of his daughter, had fallen at last into an undisturbed sleep and the doctor delivered himself of the first encouragement that had crossed his sternly honest lips. "I reckon now he's got a right even chanst ter git well ef he kin contrive ter rest a-plenty."
Last innin' Bo's umpire switched balls on us. That ball was lively. An' they tried to switch back on me. But nix! We're goin' to git a chanst to hit that lively ball, An' they're goin' to git a dose of their own medicine. Now, you dead ones come back to life! Show me some hittin' an' runnin'." "Daddy, you mean they run in a trick on us?" demanded Lane, with flashing eyes.
'Set a colt to actin' crazy fer a while. You've kep' it up, seemin'ly. D'ye talk much to your neighbours fer a steady thing?" "I uphold the principles o' the Cause wherever I am pastured." "'Done a heap o' good, I guess?" "I am proud to say I have taught a few of my companions the principles o' freedom an' liberty." "Meanin' they ran away er kicked when they got the chanst?"
They couldn't hope to save both prisoners at once. Get Stiles first and they could organize a search-party for Podmore afterward. "The whole mob'll be chasin' off in a minute an' that's the chanst we gotta lay for. Don't go 'n' spoil everythin' just as it's comin' our way. For the love o' Pete, 'bo, stuff moss in your ears an' sit tight!" Kendrick had himself in hand again immediately.
An' I know Mis' Toplady says she'd stayed with Mis' Banker Mason so much since then that she felt God had sort o' singled her Mis' Toplady out, to give her a chanst to do His work o' comfortin'. 'I've just let my house go, s'she, 'an' I've got the grace to see it don't matter if I have. Mis' Toplady ain't one o' them turtle women that their houses is shells on 'em, burden to back.
When we lived East, Mr. de Laney, we had a house not like this little shack; a good house with nigh on to a dozen rooms, and I had a gal to help me and some chanst to buy things once in a while, but now that Bill Lawton's moved West, what's goin' to become o' me I don't know. I'm nigh wore out with it all." "Then you lived East once?" asked Bennington. "Law, yes!
There was something gruesome, uncanny, about the way her fingers went their own way over the defenseless keys. Her conversation with the frowzy little girl went on. "Wha'd he say?" "Oh, he laffed." "Well, didja go?" "Me! Well, whutya think I yam, anyway?" "I woulda took a chanst." The fat man rebelled. "Look here! Get busy! What are you paid for? Talkin' or playin'? Huh?"
I'll milk it hard, an' whin 'tis dhry I'll dispose iv it to th' widdies an' orphans iv th' Sixth Ward that need household pets. Be hivins, if they give me half a chanst, I'll be as gr-reat a fi-nanceer as anny man in Wall sthreet. "Th' reason I'm so confident iv th' value iv Steel an' Wire stock, Hinnissy, is they're goin' to hur-rl th' chairman iv th' comity into jail.
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