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"Here what come," he said. "I pick 'er up when he done stompin' on 'er. You read 'er, Mist' Bibbs you' ma tell me tuhn 'er ovuh to you soon's you come in." Bibbs read the telegram quickly. It was from New York and addressed to Mrs. Sheridan.
When he went out the front door, I sat up and lit a cigarette, and Ma came up and I told her all about how I fooled Pa, and if she would take on and cry, when Pa got back, I would get him to go to church again, and swear off drinking, and she said she would.
I suppose that she will seem inhumanly selfish with this jealousy of her brother. "I promised ma that I would look after you and I'm a-goin' to do it ayes!" I used to hear her say to my uncle. There were not many married men who were so thoroughly looked after. This was due in part to her high opinion of the Baynes family, and to a general distrust of women. In her view they were a designing lot.
He gripped her by the shoulder and forced her to look at him. "Vardri is your lover? You shall answer me before I leave this room." She did not flinch, or blush, or look away. "I love him." Joy shone in her widely open eyes. Love hovered about her mouth, and the passion that had stirred in him momentarily shrank back ashamed. He pushed back her hair with a rough caress. "It's all right, ma chère.
Georgie, Mary Lou reported, was a very sick woman, in Ma's and Mary Lou's opinion. Ma had asked the young O'Connors to her home for Christmas dinner; "perhaps they expected us to ask the old lady," said Mary Lou, resentfully, "anyway, they aren't coming!" Georgie's baby, it appeared, was an angel, but Joe disciplined the poor little thing until it would make anyone's heart sick.
"Where you been?" she persisted. As he did not answer she coaxed him, "Aw, come on, Tobey. Tell Ma. Where you been?" "I been catching butterflies," he answered. "I got a big one this time," with an air of triumph. "Where was you when you heard the scream?" she asked him cunningly. He gave a slow shake of his head. "I dunno," he answered in his dull voice. A big shiver shook him.
We tied a piece of white rubber garden hose to the stove pipe for a tail and went to bed, and when the girl woke us up we laid for Pa and Ma. Pretty soon we heard Pa's window open, and I looked out, and Pa and Ma had their heads and half their bodies out of the window. They had their night shirts on and looked just like the pictures of Millerites waiting for the world to come to an end.
We ain't supposed to leave the store and go trotting all over town to Gee, a nickel, gee, thank you, don't mind what ma says, she's always kicking." On the telephone, he heard Claire's voice in an agitated, "Milt! Meet me down-town, at the Imperial Motion Picture Theater, right away. Something I've got to tell you. I'll be in the lobby. Hurry!"
You learned to slight the intercession of the holy saints while you were at the convent. It is strange. I thought I could trust you there". "Do not think it the fault of the sisters, chère mère. They did their duty. This way of thinking came to me. I did not seek it, indeed". "How did it come to you, ma pauvre fille?" "I will tell you.
"And suppose you were, would that be any greater misfortune than to be the wives of drunkards." "I don't see the least danger. Ma has wine at her entertainments, and I have often handed it to young gentlemen, and I don't see the least harm in it. On last New Year's day we had more than fifty callers. Ma and I handed wine, to every one of them."
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