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Updated: June 11, 2025
Several of the men in the rear huddled closer to one another. One or two in the front row wiped the back of their hands over their brows. "They can't take 'Merican citizens," growled someone. "No, they can't wuss luck for the 'Merican citizens. The others stand some show but 'Merican citizens don't stand none. 'Cause they shets yer up without a hearin' and communicates with the consul.
If I was to meet Marget in the face I couldna say he was deid, though I ken 'at the wricht coffined him; na, an' what's mair, I wouldna gie Marget the satisfaction o' hearin' me say it. No, Jess, I tell ye, I dinna pertend to be on an equalty wi' Marget, but equalty or no equalty, a body has her feelings, an' lat on 'at I ken Pete's gone I will not. Eh? Ou, weel. . . . "Na faags a'; na, na.
It didn't seem to help his spiritual growth much, if any. And I sez, "I should think as much," and I sez, "You wuz in a hard place, Josiah Allen." And he sez, "It wuz the dumbest hard place any one wuz ever in on earth." And I sez, "I don't know but it wuz." That man wuz to be pitied, and I told him so, and he acted real cheerful and contented at hearin' my mind.
"Faith, Lawless, there's a story worth the hearin', I'm thinkin', to every white man in this country. For the three years I was in the mounted police, I could count a story for all the days o' the calendar and not all o' them would make you happy to hear." Pourcette turned round to them. He seemed to be listening to Shon's words.
Bowers's head swung as though on a pivot. "What did you say?" "I've heerd that's what they call her." Bowers's eyes narrowed as he answered: "Not in my hearin'." Then he added: "Nobody can knock the outfit I'm workin' for and eat their grub while they're doin' it. Sabe?" "Don't know as I blame you," the stranger conciliated. "I'll go cook," said Bowers shortly, getting up.
"I'd like nuthin' better'n to see them big trees out in Californy I've been hearin' 'bout all my life; an' summer an' winter with snow on the mountains what some of the boarders 't the inn tells 'bout; but I can't bring it 'bout. You see it's this way.
He shaded his candle with his hand, and the light struck back, showing a strong and rosy and likable face. "Faith!" he said, "an' I thought I was after hearin' a noise. Good-evenin', gentlemen or rather good-morning, for it must be toward cockcrow. What " "It's not so late as that," interrupted Marchmont. "I wish I had your recipe for sleeping, father.
It's a reminder, and keeps down my pride, for when I get to feelin' pretty big, after hearin' myself pointed out as Peterkin the millionaire, I go out to that old boat in the back yard, and says I, ''Liza Ann, says I, 'you and me has took many a trip up and down the canal, with about the wust crew, and the wust hosses, and the wust boys that was ever created, and though you've got a new coat of paint onto you, and can set still all day and do nothing while I can wear the finest broadcloth and set still, too, it won't do for us to forget the pit from which we was dug, and I don't forget it neither, no more than I forgit favors shown when I was not fust cut.
I keep hearin' music all the time, and I try to write words down, but they don't mean anything; they are silly; so I tear 'em up." So Mitch went on and he worried me. And I says: "Mitch, I'm goin' to say somethin' to you! Do you like me as much as you used to?" "Every bit," says he. "Why?" "Because," says I, "you don't always act the same.
Faith had got up and gone out onto the piazza, and he riz up ponderously and proudly and follered her. And onless I put cotton in my ears, I couldn't help hearin' what wuz said. I could hear his proud axent and her low gentle voice in reply. Sez he, "Miss Smith, of course you hain't known me long, but I feel that we are well acquainted. I have watched you when you hain't known it."
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