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Betty's face lit up at these words, and she brushed away some glittering drops from her long lashes. 'You think I shall really have it? she questioned eagerly. 'Surely you will in some form or t'other, and p'raps before you're a growed-up woman. I sometimes think little folks' troubles are as big as the older folks. Betty did not hear much more of the conversation that followed.
Where's your Christmas spirit, I should like to know? . . . If you have none for yourselves, think of other people. Think of me! I love my Christmas, and I'm not going to give it up for you or any one else. My very first Christmas at home as a growed-up lady, and you want to diddle me out of it. . . . Go to! Likewise, avaunt! Now by my halidom, good sirs, you know not with whom you have to deal.
"For my part the best part of the day generally begins when the sun goes down." With patient contempt Riley considered John Gaspar. "You look kind of that way," he decided aloud. "Pale and not much good with your shoulders. Now, what d'you most generally do with your time in the evening?" "Why talk." "Talk? Huh! A fine way of wasting time for a growed-up man." "And I read, you know."
But I've love for you, child, an' respect, jest the same as if you was my own.... An' I KNOW you're good.... Forgive me.... I meant only hevn't you been, say, sort of careless?" "Care-less?" queried Ellen, bitterly and low. "An' powerful thoughtless an' an' blind lettin' men kiss you an' fondle you when you're really a growed-up woman now?" "Yes I have," whispered Ellen.
"Hem bow goy," suggested Verman eagerly. "Aw ri'," said Herman. "Ow sistuh Queenie, she a growed-up woman; she got a goituh." "Got a what?" "Goituh. Swellin' on her neck grea' big swellin'. She heppin' mammy move in now. You look in de front-room winduh wheres she sweepin'; you kin see it on her." Penrod looked in the window and was rewarded by a fine view of Queenie's goitre.
Dar hit don't dat say a hunndrt an' nine? I reckon dat be right, seein' I had three growed-up boys when freedom come. Dey be on'y one sto' here when I come to Tampa. Hit b'long t' ol' man Mugge. Dey be a big cotton patch where Plant City is now. I picked some cotton dere, den I come to Tampa, an' atter a while I got a job nussin' Mister Perry Wall's chillen.
"What you mean?" demanded Getz, impatient of all this mystery. "It's the daughter of one of this here Board that we're wotin' fur!" Mr. Getz's eyes moved about the table. "Why, none of yous ain't got a growed-up daughter that's been to school long enough to get a certificate." "It seems there's ways of gettin' a certificate without goin' to school.
"She keeps a-teaching the darned kids, and it seems like a good growed-up man can't interest her." "There used to be all the ducks you wanted at the Laparel, but their fool cook's dead stuck on raising turkeys this year." "That must have been mighty close to a drowndin' the schoolmarm got at South Fork." "Why, I guess not. When? She's never spoken of any such thing that I've heard."
"What is it you want now? If it's concerning money, or business, or the growed-up side of life, run along and don't disturb the carousals of a sailorman. If it's a fight, lemme get my hat." "I want you to wake up your fireman and have steam on the tug in an hour, then wait for me below the bridge. You're chartered for twenty-four hours, and remember, not a word." "I'm on!
You see" he dexterously roped a horse, and once more his splendid sanity was turned to gold by his imagination "I expect in many growed-up men you'd call sensible there's a little boy sleepin' the little kid they onced was that still keeps his fear of the dark. You mentioned the dark yourself yesterday.
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