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His brow loomed heavy, like Tragedy's own mask, and it grew ever blacker while the scene went on. Hiram Cole whispered me, "He'll kill himself afore he's done with it. He's gone in for the whole hog, but he 'ain't growed to it, as Old Josh had. The Marden blood run emptin's afore it got to him."
Now, when I wuz lookin' at that charge of Pickett's men, an' the whole world wuz blazin' with fire, an' all the skies wuz rainin' steel and lead, an' whar grass growed before, nothin' but bayonets wuz growin' then, do you know what I seed sometimes?" "What was it?" asked Harry.
They're big tigers an' mammoths an' sech like." "I'm not disputing what you say, Sol, because I don't know anything about it, but if it wasn't for raising an alarm I'd shoot that king wolf there, who is following us so close. I can tell by his eyes that he expects to eat us both." "What kind o' tigers wuz it that Paul said lived long ago, an' growed so monstrous big?" "Saber-toothed."
"An'," Glory continued, "there'll be me a wearin' a white frock, all new an' never mended, an' my hair growed long an' lovely, an' me just as purty as I wish I was, an' as everybody has to be that lives to the 'Harbor. An' bime-by, of a Sunday, maybe, when they can spare the time, Posy Jane an' Billy Buttons, an' Nick, the Parson, 'll come walkin' up to the beautiful gate, an' the captain what keeps it'll write their names in a book an' say, 'Walk right in, ladies an' gentlemens, walk right in.
Come often, won't you?" "Rather!" said Noel cheerily. "I believe I'm going to be married some time soon by the way," he added as an afterthought. Peggy's face fell. "Oh, Noel, not really!" "Why not really?" said Noel. Peggy explained with a little quiver in her voice. "You did always say that when I was growed up you'd marry me." "Oh, is that all?" said Noel. "That's easily done.
Father had always been a-talkin' to me about the leadin' men, and makin' acquaintance with the political big bugs when I growed up and havin' a patron, and so on. Thinks I, I'll take the leadin' cow for my patron.
I didn't never say nothin' about it to nobody after I growed up, 'cause I figgered it out they wouldn't understand and mebbe'd laugh at me; but all these years, ever sence I left that there porehouse, I've had a hankerin' here inside of me" he lifted one hand and touched his breast "I've had a hankerin' to be a boy and to do all the things a boy does; to do the things I was chiseled out of doin' whilst I was of a suitable age to be doin' 'em.
Duryea cried. "Just as sure as you're Hattie Watson," Max said. "How're all the children, Hattie?" "All growed up and flew away," Mrs. Duryea replied. "What are you doing around here?" Max's eyes twinkled mischievously. "I'm selling goods for Mr. Green here," he declared. "Let's see, Hattie. Forty-two bust, I should say." He snatched a garment from a rack near by.
She had told me that mornin' whilst I wuz gittin' ready to start that he wuz the loveliest young man she had ever met, and a woman would be happy indeed who won him for her consort. And I said, as I pinned my collar on more firmly with my cameo pin, that I presoomed that he would make a good man and pardner when he growed up.
I seen her on the board walk once with her husband, took notice to her, thought I might need it sometime. She has gray hair but she ain't never growed up. She was ridin' in a wheeled chair, an' him walkin' beside her an' a man behind pushin' her, an' a maid comin' along with a fur coat.
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