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I never knew I had so much to say. But there! I guess we all have, if there's anybody 't wants to listen. I never've said this to a livin' soul, an' I guess it's sort o' heathenish to think, but I'm tired to death o' fightin' ag'inst poverty, poverty!
He had gone inside that window. Never think another crazy just because it happens you Never've heard of just the thing that they have started out to do. Happy Jack. Isn't it queer how hard it seems to be for some boys to go to bed at the proper time and how much harder it is for them to get up in the morning? It was just so with Farmer Brown's boy.
Raven inquired. Charlotte hesitated. Her brown cheek flushed. "Well," she said, "I never've heard anything ag'inst her, not anything I should be willin' to repeat. You know what they be, there over the mountain. There's the Donnyhills. Good folks, but shif'less! my soul! Though she ain't that." "Called on her, haven't you?" "No," said Charlotte. She wore the flush of resentful matronhood.
"I dare because I'm a woman.... I dare because I know what she's doing. If she hadn't played her cards well, you'd never've paid any attention to her at all.... No one can make me believe you would have been interested in a in a " The man literally whirled from the porch, bounded into the motor, turned the wheel, and shot rapidly away. All the evening Molly waited in despair.
"An outlandish name is bad for a town, or a ship, or a man; same as the Anaconda, for the Anaconda had bad luck, same as Abimelech Dalrimple. He'd never've got his brains frazzled if he'd been named Bill." He paused several minutes before going on, to think over this theory of names.
She seemed to remind herself that there was much to say. "I must be gittin' along with my story." She looked at him in a most moving wistfulness, and added: "I got scared." Raven gave his answering nod. That seemed to be about all he could respond with, in his danger of saying the rash thing. "Yes," he said, "scared. Same way?" "No," she said. "Worse. I guess I never've been so scared.
He heard her voice. "No," she cried, so distinctly that the sound came through the crack of the door she had left ajar. "No, no, I tell you. You never've stepped foot into this house by my will, an', so long as I'm in it, you never shall." Raven rose and went to the door. He had not stopped to think what he should find, but at least it was, from her tone, a menace of some sort.
His boy's eyes hung on hers, pleading. All the happiness of his life, he felt, waited for this girl's answer, this little yellow-haired girl whom he had never seen until a quarter of an hour before. "We-ell," she hesitated, "I I don't like to have you think I'd pick up like this with any fellow that come along " "I don't think so!" he broke in fiercely. "If I thought so I'd never've asked you."
"No," said Raven thoughtfully, "it's no secret. Only he was queer, he was eccentric, and so I've always assumed he had a pretty bad time of it. That's why I never've talked about him." "Mother did," said Dick, in a sudden expansion. It seemed to ease him up a little, this leading Raven to the source of his own apprehension.
"The next time I peeked was the last, for that night they'd had some words, an' they both set up straight as a mack'rel, an' wouldn't speak to one another. That hurt me most of anything. I never've got over the feelin' that I was James's mother, an' that night I felt sort o' bruised all through, as if some stranger'd been hurtin' him. So I never went spyin' on 'em no more.
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