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"You don't like children, I reckon," Irving said, as the doctor drew back from the little feet which unconsciously touched his lap. "No, I hate them," was the answer, spoken half-savagely, for at that moment a tiny hand was deliberately laid on his, as Willie showed a disposition to be friendly. "I hate them," and the little hand was pushed rudely off.
"Whoever set fire to your place took her away, or else she's got lost somewheres." "Gone?" said Sim Gage. "Blind! You, Wid!" he turned upon his friend half-savagely "you was talking to me about acts of Providence. There ain't no such thing as Providence if this here's true. Come on I got to get home."
Only when the piano ceased did he awake to the fact, and then half-savagely he knocked out its half-consumed contents and turned inwards. He found Granny Grimshaw standing in the passage in a listening attitude, and paused to bid her good-night. "Be you going to bed, Master Jeff?" she said. "My dear, did you ever hear the like? She plays like an angel."
Bella will be at me about the blankets! Bother! What shall I say? Tell her to mind her own business," he cried half-savagely; and as if to get away from his thoughts he ran down into the hall, snatched his cap from the stand, and then hurried away for the woods.
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