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Updated: September 29, 2025
But I tell John when I get away from home, it feels so good I STAY! 'I don't get away any too often, I says, 'and I guess I've earnt the right. Well, I must be going if I'm ever going to! Good-bye, Miss Plummer good-bye, Rebecca Mary. All is, I hope Mis' Avery's boarder'll find her diamond, don't you? But I don't calculate she will. Well, good afternoon.
The water ain't much but it sure did taste good." For a long time the two lay close together looking up at the million winking stars. Tex tossed the butt of a cigarette into the grey dust. "She's a great girl, Win. Game plumb to her boot heels." "She is, that. I've loved her for a long time since way back in my college days but she wouldn't have me." "You hadn't earnt her.
We'll pay that mortgage up to-morrow." "The mortgage is all paid. We've paid it, Abel," cried Ann. "Paid! The mortgage ain't paid!" "Yes, we've paid it. We all earnt money an' paid it." "Then we can keep the money," said the old man, happily. "We can keep it, mother; I thought it would go kinder hard partin' with it. I've worked so hard to save it.
"But," said she, "I ought not to shame you on the road; and yet, Elspa, at least till the entrance of the town, let me travel with you; for when I hae dreed my penance, we must part, never to meet again. Darkness and dule is my portion now in this world. I hae earnt them, and it is just that I should enjoy them.
Seamen's Institutes have grown from very small beginnings, and are now to be found in every port where English-speaking seamen congregate. They began when, as the saying was, the sailor earnt his money like a horse and spent it like an ass. They flourish when the sailor is much better able to look after himself.
A flush crept slowly over her face, then it died away, and she said quietly to Black Andy for she had ever prayed to be master of the demon of temper down deep in her, and she was praying now: "She earnt her living by singing and dancing, and she's brought up George's boy by it, and singing and dancing isn't a crime. David danced before the Lord.
I tell my wife if I had a son like that an' he'd send me home a bushel basket o' money, earnt like that, I wouldn't touch finger to it-no, sir!" "You wouldn't? Why?" "'Cause it ain't right. It ain't made right no way, you-" "But how is it made? What's the feller's trade?" "He's a gambler-that's his trade! He plays cards, and every cent is bloody.
She thereupon said no; she would not go to any but where she might teach children, because of keeping herself in use of what things she had earnt, which she do not here nor will there, but only dressing. By which I perceive the wench is cunning, but one very fit for such a place, and accomplished to be woman to any lady in the land. So quietly to sleep, it being a cold night.
The Texan did not lift his eyes from the trail: "Earnt, I reckon, would be a better word. An' I don't know as it's pessimism, at that, to look in under the crust of your pie before you bite it. If you'd et flies for blueberries as long as I have, you'd " "I'd ask for flies, and then if there were any blueberries the surprise would be a pleasant one."
'You want to get me out o' the 'ouse. I'm ready to go, an' glad to go. I've earnt my livin' before now, an' I'm not so old but I can do it again. You always was one for talkin', but the fewest words is best. Them as talks most isn't allus the most straightfor'ard. 'It isn't that kind of talk that'll do any good, mother.
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