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"When I tell you I've come three thousand miles from Kansas straight here without stopping, ye kin reckon it's so," she replied firmly. "Three thousand miles!" echoed the editor wonderingly. "Yes. Three thousand miles from my own folks' home in Kansas, where six years ago I married Mr. Dimmidge, a British furriner as could scarcely make himself understood in any Christian language!
Not her skin, perhaps, nor hair, nor her eyes, leastwise not the color, but something I can't describe; and this woman, her mother, you say is a furriner; that may be, but I've seen her afore, or I'm mistaken. She took passage once on the 'Liza Ann, I'm sure on't, and Arthur look passage same day as far as Chester and was as chipper as you please with her.
"That's not a bad idea," said Monsieur Thuran, and then, turning to the third sailor, Wilson, he said: "Pass one of those tins aft, my good man." "Fetch it yerself," retorted Wilson sullenly. "I ain't a-takin' no orders from no furriner you ain't captain o' this ship yet."
The "furriner" might be a spy or a revenue officer, but deep down in the boy's heart the suspicion had been working that he had gone over there to see his little cousin the girl whom, boy that he was, he had marked, when she was even more of a child than she was now, for his own. His people understood it as did her father, and, child though she was, she, too, understood it.
But looking back to the beginning how the little girl had talked of the "furriner" who had come into Lonesome Cove all during the six months he was gone; how gladly she had gone away to the Gap to school, how anxious she was to go still farther away again, and, remembering all the strange questions she asked him about things in the outside world of which he knew nothing Uncle Billy shook his head in confirmation of his own conclusion, and with all his soul he wondered about Hale what kind of a man he was and what his purpose was with June and of every man who passed his mill he never failed to ask if he knew "that ar man Hale" and what he knew.
Just 'cause you're Cap'n Lote's grandson I presume likely you think you can talk any kind of talk, don't ye?" "Not any kind, Is. I can't talk like you. Will you teach me?" "Shut up! Now, by Crimus, you you furriner you Speranzy " Mr. Keeler appeared at the office window. His shrill voice rose pipingly in the wintry air as he demanded to know what was the trouble out there. Mr.
"There ain't no private part to this yer ship that ez, 'cepting the rooms and lofts," said Mr. Nott, authoritatively. Then, subjecting the anxious look of his daughter to his usual faculty for misconception, he added, "Thar ain't no place whar you haven't as much right to go ez any other man; thar ain't any man, furriner or Amerykan, young or old, dyed or undyed, ez hev got any better rights.
You know how he hates furriners, 'n' whut he would do ef he happened to run across this furriner atter he has been drinkin'. I'm a-meddlin' because I hev told him that I am goin' to take keer o' ye, 'n' I mean to do it-ef ye hates me fer it. I'm a-watchin' ye, Easter," he continued, " 'n' I want ye to know it. I knowed the furriner begun comm' here cause ye air not like gals in the settlemints.
He'm a true, good man, and he'm comin' to marry me quick." "Joe Noy?" "No, no, not him. I thot I loved en well till Mister Jan comed, an' opened my blind eyes, an' shawed me what love was. Mister Jan's a gen'leman a furriner. He caan't live wi'out me no more; he's said as he caan't. An' I'm droopin' an' longin' for the sight o' en.
"'What do you mane? says he. "'I mane, says I, 'what I towld you, that I'm as good a furriner myself as any o thim. "'Make me sinsible, says he. "'By dad, maybe that's more nor me, or greater nor me, could do, says I; and we all began to laugh at him, for I thought I would pay him off for his bit o' consait about the Garmant Oceant.
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