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Updated: June 13, 2025
"It seems to me you're a growin' bleak and holler-eyed, teacher," she would say to me when I came home at night. So I indulged more and more in a deeply sentimental self-pity, and felt a growing satisfaction in the consciousness that I was enduring martyrdom.
You look sorter sorter like a strained relation or somethin'. What you been doin' to yourself to get so white an' holler-eyed? What kep' you so late?" "I had a tussle with Radcliffe." "Who won out?" "I did, but it took me all day." "Never mind. It'd been cheap at the price, if it had 'a' took you all week. How come the madam to give you a free hand?" "She was away."
He was allers a hankerin' arter seein' the world, 'n' he went off an' stayed off a right smart while, nine or ten year, 'n' lived in all sorts o' ways in them big cities. When he come back he was a sight to see, sick 'n' pore 'n' holler-eyed, but as wicked as ever. Dusk was a little thing 'n' he was a old man, but he'd laugh 'n' tell her to take care of her face 'n' be a smart gal.
After you once git over it you're broke. You wouldn't leave this country for a purty on a chain." "I hope I'll not get it," she laughed. "How do people act when they take the lonesomeness?" "Well, some acts one way and some acts another," said Smith. "Some mopes and run holler-eyed, and some kicks and complains and talk about 'God's country' till it makes you sick.
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