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You c'n find out a lot by fightin' him. That's how I got my feelin' for Injuns, an' it's th' kind you have for a good fighter." The incident with Dorgan seemed to have passed from his mind, though Whitey had lived long enough in the West to know that tragedy had lurked near. The old puncher leaned back, his hands behind his head, and puffed clouds of smoke into the air.
She remembered the indignant heart-beat with which she had heard him call her "little gal," and she smiled now, but she could recall the very tone of his voice and the steady look in his clear eyes when he offered her the perch he had caught. Even then his spirit appealed unconsciously to her, when he sturdily refused to go up to the house because her brother was "feelin' hard towards him."
"Yes, sir," said David, "I never spent a small amount o' money but one other time an' got so much value, only I alwus ben kickin' myself to think I didn't do it sooner." "Perhaps," suggested John, "you enjoyed it all the more for waiting so long." "No," said David, "it wa'n't that I dunno 't was the feelin' 't I'd got there at last, I guess.
It was addressed to Ranald himself, and was the first he had ever received in his life. It was from Yankee Jim, and read as follows: Dear Ranald The Boss aint feelin like ritin much and the rest of the boys is all broke up, and so he told me to rite to you and to tell you some purty bad news.
Sitting up in the next-hand cot to his on the right was a member of his own company, one Paul Dempsey, now rather elaborately bandaged as to his head and shoulders, but seemingly otherwise in customary good order and spirits. "Hello, Dempsey," he said. "Hello, sarge," answered back Dempsey. "How you feelin' by now all right?" "Guess so.
Mother says I'm brave, but it's not very brave inside I'm feelin'. I'd run if I could." But Pat was to learn some day, and learn it from the General's lips, that the very bravest men have been men who wanted to run and wouldn't.
"In the ould days, whin a great man died, they used to burn his body. An' now I'm feelin' as if somethin' had died in me the hope av winnin' Kate, McTee. So let's burn her letter between us, eh?" "Harrigan," said McTee with heartfelt emotion, "that thought is well worthy of you!" They knelt on the little spot. They placed the paper between them.
"But the bright, quick intellect that delights you, can't help seeing through an injustice, can't help seeing through shams of all kinds sham sentiment, sham compliments, sham justice. "The tender, lovin' nature that blesses your life, can't help feelin' pity for those less blessed than herself.
Then he couldn't stand it any longer, an' he told me seein' how I suffered, an' everybody hidin' their suspicions from me, an' me up here out o' the way, an' no account. That was the feelin' among 'em: What was the good of making things worse? They wasn't thinkin' of the boy or of Jim Buckmaster, his father. They was thinkin' of Greevy's gal to save her trouble."
"You've an uncommon feelin' heart for one so young. "To say I was lonesome after she went don't say much; but time evens things out after a while, or we couldn't stand it as long as we do. Gracie she settled into a little woman all at once, as you may say, and seemed older for a while than she does now. The rest was all married and gone, but one boy, a good boy, too.
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