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"Well, then, he was a Rooshian or a Prooshian." "Nor was he either of those." "Well, it don't make no diff'unce, nohow. He wuz a furriner, that's shore, an' he's dead, both uv which things is ag'inst him. It looks strange to me, Paul, that a furriner with the outlandish ways that furriners always hev should hev been sech a good gen'ral." "He was probably the best the world has produced, Jim.
"Of co'se," Mavis agreed, for she was just as contemptuous as he over the fuss that had been made of the incident. "But she ain't afeerd o' nothin'." This was a little too much. "I ain't nuther." "Co'se you ain't." There was no credit for Mavis her courage was a matter of course; but with the stranger-girl, a "furriner" that was different. There was silence for a while.
Y'u air as cur'us to him as one o' them bugs an' sich-like that he's always a-pickin' up in the woods. I hevn't said nuthin' to yer dad, fer fear o' his harmin' the furriner; but I hev seed that ye like him, an' hit's time now fer me to meddle. Ef he was in love with ye, do ye think he would marry ye? I hev been in the settle-mints. Folks thar air not as we citizens air.
So true is this that they call all outsiders "furriners." It matters not whether your descent be from Puritan or Cavalier, whether you come from Boston or Chicago, Savannah or New Orleans, in the mountains you are a "furriner." A traveler, puzzled and scandalized at this, asked a native of the Cumberlands what he would call a "Dutchman or a Dago."
The water heaved a bit about her chin, for her hidden chest was palpitating with the short, sharp intakes of a chuckling laughter. "Thought I were a b'ar, most likely!" she thought merrily, quite certain of the safety of her hiding place. "Some furriner."
Plain Mr. Alexander would have had small effect upon him; but Achilles Alexandrakis ! He mounted the long staircase, holding the syllables in his set teeth. "Alexandrakis?" His mistress turned a little puzzled frown upon him. "What is he like, Conner?" The man considered a safe moment. "He's a furriner," he said, addressing the wall before him with impassive jaw.
Anon nailed boots stamped up the little pathway to Drift farmhouse, and Tom Tregenza appeared. To-day he entered fearlessly, for he came upon an errand from his father. He kissed Joan and shook hands with Uncle Thomas. Then he said: "'Tis a letter as I've brought for Joan a furriner." The girl's heart beat hard, and the blood rushing from her cheeks left them white.
"I judge you'm a furriner, else you'd knawn 'bout the wickedness o' blackthorn." "I am. Thank you very much. But for you I should have gone home wearing it. That puts me in your debt, Joan." "'Tain't nothin', awnly there's a many coorious Carnish things like that. An' coorious customs what some doan't hold with an' some does."
Old Farmer Hamlyn did not like his daughter to marry a 'furriner, and he considered that people should marry in their own stations; but Dinah herself loved the man all the better for what he had told them, and between them they soon overcame the father's scruples, and the wedding-day was fixed.
All journeys end, and as Samson passed through the tawdry cars of the local train near Hixon he saw several faces which he recognized, but they either eyed him in inexpressive silence, or gave him the greeting of the "furriner." Then the whistle shrieked for the trestle over the Middle Fork, and at only a short distance rose the cupola of the brick court-house and the scattered roofs of the town.
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