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He'd go down to the river, along in April when the water was ice-cold, and he'd get off his clothes and stand on the bank shivering. After his teeth had chattered an hour or so, mother'd come to look him up and Joel would get into his trousers and go home meek as a lamb. Well, Annabel's the same way.
"No kid out of this flat is goin' to run the streets," he declared, "and learn all kinds of bad, and bring it home to that nice, little stepdaughter o' mine! No, Mrs. Kukor, her mother'd haunt me if I didn't bring her up nice, and you can bet I'll do that. That kid, long's he stays under my roof, is goin' t' be fit t' stay.
"'Cause there never were any twins in our family, and if there had been, do you s'pose mother'd have let one loose like that, to get put in a Children's Home? I guess not!" "Maybe she's a cousin, then." "We haven't got any. Papa was the only child Grandpa Greenfield had, and mother's only brother died when he was little."
But there was a sanctimonious parson at the corner of your passage, one of those moral folk oh, you didn't even know that, then? Well, I'd always suspected him of not passing my message on, though a chap like that's had an awful lot of learning put into him. Then when I came out I said to myself that there must be an end to all this, for mother'd taken it very much to heart, and was failing.
Still, I'll admit you can't do much harm here three of you together, and your mother on the front doorstep!" "Harm," said James, winking in the direction of his mother; "what can poor chaps like us do here to-day and gone to-morrow Mother'd better keep her eye on those near home!" "Off to-night you might as well say!" remarked Charles, glancing at James with a certain intentness.
"You're the best fellow in the world, I believe." "What a quare feller you air to talk, Jack," said Bob, choking up. "Air you goin' to school to-day?" "No. Mother'd rather have me not go any more." "I'm not going any more. I hate old Ball. Neither's Susan Lanham going.
Well, since I'm in for it, but you'll never breathe it? and it's not worth while darkening Effie with it, let alone she's so giddy my mother'd know I'd been giving it mouth, perhaps I oughtn't, but there! poor Mary! He used to hang about the place, having seen her once when she came round from Windsor in a schooner, and it was a storm, may-happen he saved her life in it.
"I don't mean to be telling you what to do, but you might feel better if you cleaned up a little, got those pieces of leaf or whatever out of your hair." Will reached up and felt the back of his head. "I slept in the woods a couple of hours." "You look it. Your mother'd give you hell." "Don't have a mother." "Oh. I am a nosy bitch." "You're not a bitch," Will said.
The like of me, my lord, can't do things like you noblemen and gentry. Besides, mother'd never forgive me. They think, down there, that poor Anty's simple like; tho' she's cute enough, av' they knew her. I wouldn't, for all the money, wish it should be said that Martin Kelly ran off with a fool, and robbed her.
But there was a sanctimonious parson at the corner of your passage, one of those moral folk oh, you didn't even know that, then? Well, I'd always suspected him of not passing my message on, though a chap like that's had an awful lot of learning put into him. Then when I came out I said to myself that there must be an end to all this, for mother'd taken it very much to heart, and was failing.
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