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"You're honest, anyway," said he, "and I shall tell you something that will comfort you. She was as jealous of you as you were of her." "She was!" the girl exclaimed, incredulous, surprised. "Of me?" You're crazy, ain't you?" "Not a bit." "What have I got to make her jealous?" "A lot of things. You've beauty such as hers will never be " "Dellaw!" said Madge, incredulously.
She sat there on the ground in her damp skirts, too disappointed, for a moment, to make an exclamation. In many ways the girl, although well past her sixteenth year, was but a child. The reaction from the mighty dreams of fortune she had built almost unnerved her. It was her native humor which now saved her. Instead of weeping she burst into sudden laughter. "Dellaw!" said she, aloud.
"If I was only like them triflin' bluegrass gals Joe tells about," she thought, "made up of nothin' or a little less, it wouldn't be no trick to tote me outen this; but dellaw! I'm just as much as that there ox of mine feels right to carry when I got a couple bags o' grist on, back an' front." She looked around the ring of fire, dull-eyed, disheartened. "Ain't no use," said she, aloud.
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