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But John March, it seemed, would not take no from fate itself. "I don't believe yet," he mused, as he rode about his small farm, "that Jeff-Jack will get her. She's playing with him. Why not? She's played with a dozen. And yet, naturally, somebody'll get her, and he'll not be worthy of her. There's hope yet! She loves me far more than she realizes right now.
March flung himself away, but Shotwell turned him again by a supplicating call and manly, repentant air. "Law, John, don't mind my plaay, old man; I'm just about as sick as you ah. Here! I'll tell you where she is, an' then I'll tell you what let's do! You go hunt Jeff-Jack an' I'll staay with heh till you fetch him!" "That would be nice," cheerfully laughed John.
It's a secret, but" lips and parasol again, eyes wickeder than ever "it's something that you can see and touch. Promise you'll never tell, never-never-never?" He promised. "Wait here." She ran into the house, trolling a song. As John sat listening for her return, the thought came abruptly, "Hasn't Jeff-Jack got something to do with this?"
Crickwater, after three gay but futile attempts to tell Gamble that they were from the same State in the North, leaned against a wall with anguish in his every furtive glance, hopelessly button-holed by Leggett. "Ah!" cried Garnet, as Jeff-Jack and Fair entered together. The Major laughed out for joy. In a moment it was "Mr. Fair, this man, and Mr.
"Good heavens, sir! why, Miss Garnet didn't mean you say, does Jeff-Jack hold that key? He was holding it the last time I saw him! O yes. Even according to your meaning he thinks he holds it, and he thinks he ought to. I don't think he ought to, and incline to believe he won't!
But he continued to like his new friend; he was so companionably "low flung." "Do you know Jeff-Jack?" he asked. But the Captain had not the honor. "Well, he captures things. He's brave. He's dreadful brave." "No! Aw! you just want to scare me!" "So is Major Garnet. Did you ever see Major Garnet? Well, if you see him you mustn't make him mad. I'd be afraid for you to make him mad."
"I yearn for wise counsel. O son! why do we, both of us, so distrust and shun our one only common friend? He could tell us what to do, son; and, oh, how we need some one to tell us!" John dropped the hand. "I don't need Jeff-Jack. He's got to need me." "Oh, presumptuous boy! John, you might say Mr. Ravenel. He's old enough to be your father." "No, he's not!
But the next time he loves, the girl who treats his love lightly Let's go down in these woods and look for hepaticas. John can't bring them to me any more and Jeff-Jack never did. He sends candy. There's homage in a wild flower, Barb; but candy, oh I don't know it makes me ashamed." "Why don't you tell him so?" Fannie leaned close and whispered, "I'm afraid." "Why, he gave me wild flowers, once."
General Halliday and the Englishman were just going through it. John turned toward the sun-setting at a dignified walk. "I'm a fool to come out here," he thought. "But I must see at once what Jeff-Jack thinks of my plan. Will he tell me the truth, or will he trick me as they say he did Cornelius? O I must ask him, too, if he did that! I can't help it if he is with her; I must see him.
"She's an awful man-killeh; repo'ted engaged to five fellehs at once, Jeff-Jack included. I don't know whether it's true or not, but you know how ow Dixie gyirls ah, seh. An' yet, seh, when they marry, as they all do, where'll you find mo' devoted wives? This ain't the lan' o' divo'ces, seh; this is the lan' o' loose engagements an' tight marriages.
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