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"She's as nice-spoken a young lady as I've met," resumed his wife. "No pride about her, you know. She's just simple and friendly-like. Yet I'd like to see the man as'd take a liberty with her all the same." Rickett pulled at his pipe with a grunt. When not at work, it was usually his rôle to sit and listen to his wife's chatter. "She ain't been brought up in a convent," continued Mrs. Rickett.
"Thinking of Annie, I bade her the time of day real friendly-like, just as though everything was all right, and I asked her to come in and have a bite of breakfast. I'd left the coffee on the stove, and had fried myself a nice mess of onions.
"It seems like old times for you an' me to be chattin' together again so friendly-like put a finger's length into the hem of the long ones; do you remember when Sister Angelica an' you an' me was cuddled together to watch thim dance the minute over at the Van Ostends'? Och, you darlin'!"
I consider myself a pretty smart man, but Jake is cleverer than I am. When young Barrett came in that night, there was a clatter of hiding cups. "Hello, boys," he said, and sat down wearily opposite me, leaning his arms on the table between us like one utterly done out. Jake, it seemed, had the distinction of knowing him; so he said kind of friendly-like, "Hello, parson sick?" "Sick?
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