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You remember, that was my mother's name." He nodded his approbation. "Say, Saxon, you know I did want a boy like the very dickens... well, I don't care now. I think I'm set just as hard on a girl, an', well, here's hopin' the next will be called... you wouldn't mind, would you?" "What?" "If we called it the same name, Daisy?" "Oh, Billy! I was thinking the very same thing."
And a man that's like a woman he's the puzzle o' life! We can see through ourselves, my lady, and we can see through men, but one o' that sort he's like somethin' out of nature. Then I say hopin' be excused what's to do is for to treat him like a woman, and not for to let him have his own way which he don't know himself, and is why nobody else do.
When the door closed behind them, and they stood alone in the darkness, Jim said, with his hand on his companion's shoulder, and an awful lie in his throat: "I brung ye here hopin' ye'd take a notion to this little woman. She'd do more for ye nor anybody else. She can make yer clo'es, and be good company for ye, an' " "And provide for me. No, that won't do, Jim." "Well, you'd better think on't."
The patients, coming and going all the time, know me as the doctor's daughter, and naturally call me 'Miss Stewart. So it doesn't seem so queer when Mr. Keith does it." "Good!" exclaimed Susan with glowing satisfaction. "An' now here's to hopin' he won't never find out who you really be!" "Is he so very bitter, then, against Dorothy Parkman?" The girl asked the question a little wistfully.
"What has happened?" cried the pale youth. "O, John, the best that ever could! What Mother Tombs and I and the Sextons and the Coffins and the Graveses and sco'es o' lovin' friends and relations have been a hopin' faw all this year an' last! Sister March has engaged her hand to Brother Garnet!" "I think I'll lie down," said John, beginning to rise.
I've walked the streets of this town all day, hopin' I could find some one who would help me make up the balance I owe; but the fire yesterday makes everybody feel poor, I s'pose, an' I couldn't borrow a dollar; so I'm goin' home now to tell mother that we've got to leave the home where all our babies were born, and where they all died."
Yeou see I bed a cousin who'd kind er took my place tew hum while I was off, an' the old man hed left him a good slice er his money, an' me the farm, hopin' to keep me there. He'd never liked the lumberin' bizness, an' hankered arfter me a sight, I faound.
But, 'tennyrate, no matter how Satan wuz laughin' and sneerin' and angels bendin' down from the gold bars of Heaven lookin' through their pityin' tears hopin' it must be a mistake, not believin' it possible that them prayers and hims could come from a man-killin' saloon.
She could only repeat her demand, in a cry that reached its ictus in a sob. "If you're dreamin' about that red-coat spy hopin' he'll marry you after he's played fast and loose with you why, forget such foolishness. I know his kind. When he's had his fling, he'll go back to his own people and settle down. He's lookin' for a woman, not a wife."
But I remimbered me promises to mesilf, an' I wint out on th' sthreet, intindin' to wish ivry wan a 'Happy New Year, an' hopin' in me hear-rt that th' first wan I wished it to'd tell me to go to th' divvle, so I cud hit him in th' eye. I hadn't gone half a block before I spied Dorsey acrost th' sthreet. I picked up a half a brick an' put it in me pocket, an' Dorsey done th' same.
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