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"Oh, I want to marry ye more'n anything, but I've never deceived Daddy a bit in all my life. I never done nothin' less'n I told 'im, and, Oh, I want to tell him, Frederick! I do want to tell 'im!" Frederick hadn't anticipated this resistance on Tessibel's part. "Tess," he said, almost angrily, "I wouldn't ask you to do anything wrong."
And without stopping to argue the matter, Tom ran the automobile to its garage. "Back, safe an' sound, eh?" questioned Abner Filbury, as he came forward to take charge of the machine. "Ab, you look out that some of the fellows don't take this car to-night," warned Tom. "There ain't no cars goin' out less'n I've the correct orders for 'em," replied Abner.
Archie the Kid steals two dollars an' eighty cents from a drunk and gets fifty years. J. Alliston Forbes sticks up the Alta Trust for two millions en' gets less'n two years. Who's country is this anyway? Yourn an' Archie the Kid's? Guess again. It's J. Alliston Forbes' Oh: "Nobody likes a mil-yun-aire, Nobody likes his looks, Nobody'll share his slightest care, He classes with thugs and crooks."
"You been here longer than any one, too," went on Jenkins. "How long has it been, Bingle?" "Fifteen years," gulped Mr. Bingle, in a strange, unnatural voice. "That's longer than the old man himself," said Jenkins. "He's been president less'n twelve years. Say, Bingle, I'm all broke up over it. I I hope it ain't as bad as we think. Maybe oh, I say, it's your EARS! That's what it is. Mr.
"That is, countin' years, and not experience." "I'm just about forty-five," said Tom, "countin' both." "Well, she came from Georgia " "And so did I," observed Tom Osby, casually. Dan Anderson was troubled. His horizon was wider than Tom Osby's. "It's far, Tom," said he; "it's very far." "I everidge about twenty mile a day," said Tom, not wholly understanding. "I can make it in less'n a week."
Well, 's I was a-sayin', I guess it'll take 'bout eighteen hours by the clock to cut back six years. Thet's by the clock, ye understand. As a matter of fact, of course, we'll be just six years less'n no time in finishin' the trip." "Well," said Phoebe, briskly, "that's no kind o' reason fer dawdlin' about it now. Let's be startin'." "Where's the trunks?" said Droop.
He's drivin' their limousine to-night that little Henrietta Lamb's goin' to the party, no matter if her father HAS only been dead less'n a year!" He paused, then inquired: "Well, how d'you like it?" She did not speak, and he began to be remorseful for having imparted so much information, though his way of expressing regret was his own.
He couldn't have missed me, less'n he'd been color blind. There's worse things can happen to you than red hair, all right. Piddie was sore on me from the start, though. He'd made up his mind to tag a nice little mommer's boy, with a tow colored top and a girly voice. Them's the kind that forgets to bring back change and always has stamps to sell.
"He turns around kind of lazy and says he: 'Oh, you've got no kick coming, he says. 'I allow you to er ornament my tree, and 'tain't every hayseed I'd let do that. "And away he goes; and for an hour that had no less'n sixty thousand minutes in it I clung to that tree like a green apple, with Prince setting open-mouthed underneath waiting for me to get ripe and drop.
But he'd be back nex' day, pitchfork an' all. "But with it all Jinny loved me in her own way, of co'se. Doubt if I'll ever git another to love me ez well; 'n' don't know ez I crave it, less'n she was different dispositioned.
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