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"Gals hain't changed much since I wuz a-courtin'. They allus make aout ter be desprit set agin the fellers an' mortal daown on marryin', but, lordy me! if the men held off the hussies 'ud do the chasm'." "Thee knows, Lambert," remarked his better half, "that I think Janice would get more discipline and greater godliness in " "I tell ye he sha'n't have her," broke in the squire.
Couldn't stay abed when he got there. And Granny Sanders said, Law's sakes! nobody'd ever a found him out ef it hadn't been fer her. Didn't she go all over the neighborhood a-warnin' people? Fer her part, she seed straight through that piece of goods. He was fond of the gals, too! Nothing was so great a crime in her eyes as to be fond of the gals.
"This is Miss Marvin, ain't it?" he asked when he saw her, at the same time drawing a package out from under his jacket. "I was told to give you this," he whispered, shyly. "Here, take it, quick, while there ain't no one lookin'! Them gals would turn green if they knowed you had a whole box of candy!" Faith took the box and looked at it sharply.
"Keep yer hair on!" remonstrated the old man with dark intelligence. "Ef you'd seen the way she flounced into her stateroom! she, Rosey, ez allus moves ez softly ez a spirit you'd hev wished I'd hev unloaded a little more. No sir, gals is gals in some things all the time." Renshaw rose and paced the room rapidly. "Perhaps I'd better speak to her again before she goes," he said, impulsively.
De moon, dat had been all hid, come right from behin' de rain-clouds all at once, gals, an' scared him like. De moon was low on de woods, chillen, an' as ole Meshach turned an' walked away, his debbil's shadow swept dis house in. He measured it in dat night. It's ben his ever since." "Well," exclaimed Roxy, after a pause, "I know I wouldn't take hold of that hat now."
"Lemme have a look," urged the grocer eagerly. "Not by a hatful. I'm an officer of the government. The secrets of the government must be guarded, I tell ye. There's six of them " "You don't say! Six letters?" interrupted the grocer. "No, gals. One's name is Elting. She's what they call a chaperon.
"There was one Jim Munroe of Onion County, Connecticut, a desperate idle fellow, a great hand at singin' songs, a-skatin', drivin' about with the gals, and so on.
He knew that Ike had an utter detestation of Pete, and did not have to guess at the reason. "I paid him more than that by fi' hundred. How's that?" "Tcha'! Pete ain't no account anyways," Ike retorted angrily. "Say, he pitches his dollars to glory at poker 'most every night. Pete ain't got no sort o' savee. You don't see me bustin' my wad that way." "How about the gals?
But I knows some on 'em, and right well too." "How?" I demanded curiously. Benjy looked down sheepishly at his feet. He was standing pigeon-toed. "I done c'ressed some on 'em, Marse Dave," he said at length, and there was a note of triumph in his voice. "You did what?" I asked. "I done kissed one of dem yaller gals, Marse Dave. Yass'r, I done kissed M'lisse."
Nor can I say that they appeared to feel any of that pity for our condition which we might suppose would animate the hearts of such lovely damsels. In truth, I fear that Ben was right when he observed, "The good looks of them gals is only skin-deep; we may depend on that. They are more likely to do us an ill turn than a good one.
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