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An' I can't do anything! not a thing! O Dilly, yes! yes! Oh, it's little enough, but I could! I could save my shoe-shop money, an' help him pay his debt, when he's out o' jail." "Yes," said Dilly, joyously. "An' there's more'n that you can do.
Like running water, it was never twice the same. "Dilly," said he, much moved, "you'll have a good time from this out, if ever a woman did. You'll keep house in a brick block, where the cars run by your door, and you can hire two girls." "Oh, my!" breathed Dilly. A quick look of trouble darkened her face, as a shadow sweeps across the field. "What is it?" asked Jethro, in some alarm.
However, as Dilly rather pessimistically pointed out, it was probably the last time she would ever get a kind word out of him, so we gave them ten minutes together in the porch, while Robin interviewed vergers and Dolly intimidated perspiring persons with red carpets and evergreens.
But then the other men were always so jumbled up, and this creature was as cool and collected as if he were reading a Stores Catalogue. "But he let himself go at last. It was my fault, though. I was in rather a twitter by this time, for although the whole thing was simply absurd of course one couldn't marry a wild untamed creature like that, could one, Dilly?
Give it up, father, Dilly said. All the people are looking at you. Mr Dedalus drew himself upright and tugged again at his moustache. Did you get any money? Dilly asked. Where would I get money? Mr Dedalus said. There is no-one in Dublin would lend me fourpence. You got some, Dilly said, looking in his eyes. How do you know that? Mr Dedalus asked, his tongue in his cheek.
I have already bargained for ten acres of land over there on the creek, where I feel sure the main part of the town will be situated. If you will come in with me we will form a partnership, equal shares. It is borrowed capital," he added hastily, "so that I am not giving you anything, William. You will take the same risk I take, and " "Sorry, Dilly, but I couldn't come through.
"And no place to lay my head! That's why I'm selling these little whips here to-day, a stranger in a strange land. Buy one! buy one! and the poor pilgrim'll have a supper and a bed! Keep your money in your pocket, and he's a wanderer on the face of the earth!" Dilly, the fearless in her chosen wilds, took a fold of Molly's dress, and held it tight. "You s'pose that's so?" she whispered. "Oh, dear!
Then the day slipped over an unseen height, and fell into a sheltered calm. The work was not done, and they had to go over to Mrs. Pike's again to supper, and to spend the night. Dilly longed to stretch herself on the old kitchen lounge in her own home; but Mrs. Pike told her plainly that she was crazy, and Jethro, with a kindly authority, bade her yield.
"Paid me some of it." "He's owin' you now, ain't he?" "Well, he ain't owin' much, only the few times their cerridge 'ain't been down. It ain't much, Dilly." "But it's something." "Yes; everythin' that ain't nothin' is somethin', I s'pose."
One meeting him that day might have said, with a throb of involuntary homage, "How beautiful he must have been when he was young!" But to Dilly he bore even a more subtile distinction than in that far-away time; he had ripened into something harmonizing with her own years. He came forward a little, and held out both hands; but Dilly did not take them, and he dropped the left one.
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