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Updated: June 10, 2025
Wan day, howiver, he tuk me apart very polite, for he cud be that at the choosin'. "You're a good sodger, tho' you're a damned insolint man," sez he. "Fair words, Sargint," sez I, "or I may be insolint again." "'Tis not like you," sez he, "to lave your rifle in the rack widout the breech-pin, for widout the breech-pin she was whin Vulmea fired.
"That being the case," says I, "I got to live up to my rep. or strip a gear. So here goes." With which I breezes out and pikes uptown to consult Vee. "Did you ever hear anything so batty?" says I. "Why, I think it's perfectly splendid fun," says Vee. "Just think, Torchy, you can do anything you choose!" "It's the choosin' that's goin' to bother me," says I. "I'm no matrimonial stage manager.
But 'e's my style, so to speak, if I was pickin' an' choosin'. But to show you 'ow strange I am," she goes on, "if 'e made 'isself spruce I should get to dislike 'im all at once." I raised my head sharply, suffused by a glow of hope. 'Elizabeth, my good girl, I exclaimed, 'is it so easy to accomplish as all that?
"Ladies," said the suitor, "don't disthress yourselves. There wasn't a ha'porth of harm in it me arm was in the right place. I come here by my father's wish an' with your consent, ma'am, to choose one o' your family for my wife. Me clargy wouldn't let me marry the whole of yez, so I have to be content with one, an' I'm after choosin' this one."
The little inventor took off his spectacles, wiped them, and replaced them upon his nose. "Luckily, as we was fixed, there was a chance in the box for quite a few sorts, so that saved the day. But s'pose, I got to thinkin', you could only have one variety out of the lot which would you take? That's the sticker you face when choosin' a wife.
The "hellos" were exchanged before the young men had time to enter the camp. Then Belle asked: "Aren't we going canoeing?" "Guess not to-day," replied Ed, his handsome black hair almost sparkling in the sunshine as he tossed his head in nonchalance. "We are still too cramped up. Had to sleep on the roof last night." "Why?" demanded Cora. "Choosin' that.
But I'll not go by me own choosin'. I'm not lastin' long annyhow, so ye can drop me into the court if ye like. Then the law will take ye out o' the way o' these dear children." Barber clenched and unclenched his fists, yearning to strike, yet not daring. "Go home and mind y'r own affairs," he counseled. "Me own affairs is exactly what I'm mindin'," retorted the Father.
"O'mie, dear, you are the greatest hero I ever heard of. You poor, beaten, tortured sacrifice." I put my arm around his shoulder and my tears fell on his red hair. "I didn't do no more than ivery true American will do fight an' die to protect his home; or if not his'n, some other man's. Whin the day av choosin' comes we can't do no more 'n to take our places. We all do it.
He sat directly opposite the slender youth and his cheeks were crimson. "I reckon if you'd keep to the truth " he began. But Skinny has passed on to the next. "An' there's Dexter. Lon's been awful quiet since she told him he had a picturesque name. Said it'd do for to put into a book which she's goin' to write, but when it come to choosin' a husband she'd prefer to tie up to a commoner name.
An' he wants you as bad as I do. As I said, we've got a week or more to get acquainted. It will be a week that may take us through some mighty tough sleddin', but that ain't goin' to help you none in choosin', because neither one of us will break an' you can bet your last stack of blue ones on that." The girl's lips were pressed very tight, and for some moments she rode in silence.
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