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Updated: May 27, 2025
Tearin' down the ivy, scrattin' up the moss, pullin' an' grabbin' at the flowers wot's taken months to grow, for all the wurrld as if they was cats out for a 'oliday. I tell ye it's been a speshel providence for us 'ere, that Passon Walden ain't got no wife, if he 'ad, she'd a been at the dekratin' game long afore now.
And, say, all tinted up that way, you could hardly blame him for grabbin' both her hands. Not knowin' what might happen next, I proceeds to break in. "In the meantime," says I, "what'll you have done with this perfectly good nephew we've got on our hands back there on the bench?" "That one!" says Millie. "Oh, I never want to see him again! Tell him to go away and and go to bed."
Macy was sayin' only the other day 't to her order o' thinkin' Mrs. Jewett died o' the darnin'-needles. She says she was forever grabbin' herself somewhere with a sudden yell, 'n' no matter what the doctors said it was jus' them needles, 'n' no sensible person 's saw her actions could doubt it. Mrs.
There ain't no time fer the writin' down of earmarks, though most like I could point him out in a crowd, an' say, 'That's the rooster. But sposin' a judge stood up another man that looked pretty much like him, an' asked me to swear one of the guys into ten years in Sing Sing, pr'aps I'd weaken. Mistaken identity is like grabbin' up two kings an' a jack, an' playin' 'em fer threes."
Robert was gettin' anxious. He reports that Stella has set Saturday as her last day with them and that she's begun packin' her trunk. What was I doing about it? "If you need more time off," says he, "take it." "I always need some time off," says I, grabbin my hat. Anyway, it was too fine an afternoon to miss a walk up Fifth Avenue. Besides, I can often think clearer when my rubber heels are busy.
But he don't say nothin'; jest stan's over there on the side o' the rock an' looks as if he'd like to jump off another fifty feet the' was there. "'Don't take it like that, Jud, says Jess, grabbin' holt o' him an' not payin' any 'tention to my bein' there. 'Cry, cuss, swear anything, but don't be so solemn-like. It's my fault, Juddie dear all my fault. Can yeh ever, ever fergive me?
"He caught three eels in a trap one day and the trap busted and let 'em loose in the boat. He kept grabbin' and tusslin' around the boat till the last eel got away. 'I never had such a slippery time in all the days o' my life, said Rans. 'One eel is a dinner, but three eels is jest a lot o' slippin' an' disapp'intment." "That's exactly the point I make," said Kelso.
"But if I could, sir," goes on Miss Casey, "would would you help out a little? She's an old lady, you know, and all crippled up, and Stubby he's all she's got left and " "Why, sure," I breaks in. "I'd do what I could." I throws it off casual as I'm grabbin' my hat on my way out to lunch. And I supposed that would be all there'd be to it. But I hadn't got more'n half a line on Miss Casey.
Mebbe realizin' it accounts for my grabbin' you that way, as much as the crazy boy's rapture your words gave me. I don't understand myself.... But the hell of this game is you can't ride away." "Lassiter!... What on earth do you mean? I'm an absolutely free woman." "You ain't absolutely anythin' of the kind.... I reckon I've got to tell you!" "Tell me all. It's uncertainty that makes me a coward.
Love one another'" gasp gasp gasp " 'Love one another, he says, 'and learn to help each other and stand up for each other, he says, 'and hate war and fightin' and money grabbin' "gasp gasp gasp "'Peace on earth, he says, 'Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free' and he saw there'd be a time" the old man raised himself on one elbow "Yes, by God there will be! a time when men'll learn not to be beasts and'll be men men, little gal!"
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