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I couldn't see her dying there for the want of something a little money'd buy and and I couldn't" he caught his voice in a little sob "I couldn't see her thrown out on the street like that." "And so," said Jimmie Dale, "instead of putting old Isaac's cash in the safe this evening when you locked up, you put it in your pocket instead eh? Didn't you know you'd get caught?"
Still, maybe you don't realize how set up he'd be over being noticed by a girl in your position. And if you gave him the notion that there was a chance for him to marry you, he'd be after you hammer and tongs. The idea of getting hold of so much money'd set him crazy." "I doubt if he cares very much or at all about money," said Jane, judicially. Hastings grinned satirically.
"Ouaie," continued Tom, "an' if I'd join him in the loan the money'd all come to me when he'd done with it." "Aw!... Money isn't everything.... Can't get all you want sometimes when you've got all money you want." "G'zammin, Peter! You're as crazy 'bout that lass as th' old un is 'bout his mines. Why don't ye ask her and ha' done with it?" "Aw yes.
So I'm going to give up my homestead if I can find some easy mark to buy out my relinquishment. Don't want to let it slide, yuh see, 'cause the improvements is worth a little something, and the money'd come handy right now, helpin' me into something here.
I've set out to make a man of him, and I'll marry him to do it if he ain't a dollar to his name. But money'd make it lots quicker an' easier. He was savin' up till he run in with Buck McKee." A sudden thought struck Payson. Here was a way to dispose of Dick Lane's money when it came. "All right, Mrs. Bud Lane to be.
Don't know whether he's rich or not, but 'spect he ain't becuz no man with money'd live like he does." He thrust a long forefinger into Mr. Birnes' face. "And stingy! He's so stingy he won't let nobody come in the house scared they'll wear the furniture out looking at it." "How long has he lived here?" "There ain't nobody in this town old enough to say.
"I passed a beardless pair without compare * And cried, 'I love you, both you ferly fir! 'Money'd? quoth one: quoth I, 'And lavish too; * Then said the fair pair, 'Pere, c'est notre affaire." Now Abu Nowas was given to these joys and loved to sport and make merry with fair boys and cull the rose from every brightly blooming check, even as saith the bard,
It ain't anything more'n fair that I should be paid for it out of his father's property. If poor Esther had lived, the money'd gone to her, an' she'd paid me fast enough. Now the way's opened for me to get it, I ain't goin' to let it go. Talk about it's bein' right, if it ain't right to stoop down an' pick up anybody's just dues, I don't know what right is, for my part." "Mother!" "What say?"
His face spoke in advance of his lips, and she read its language with wonderful quickness. "Ah!" she cried, "I mistrusted how it'd be; you don't want to say it right out, but I'll say it for you! You think the money'd bring you no luck, maybe a downright curse, and how can I say it won't? Ha'n't it cursed me? Sandy said it would, even as your'n follered him. What's it good for, then?
Why, he'll always make enough for you to live on, and more money'd only be used to buy amusements to keep you from thinkin'; but the way you and him could live together, you'd like to think. So what's the use of money?" "But Mother says " "Now, Daphne, I don't want to say nothin' about your mother.
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