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"Well, I've noticed that they have a particular likin' for the worthless over the hardworkin' sort," remarked old Adam, "an' when it comes to that, I've known a woman to git clear set against a man on o'count of nothin' bigger than a chaw of tobaccy." "It's the way of the sex," said Solomon Hatch.
"The things air all washed up, ain't they, pa?" Amos Burr scowled heavily upon the boy's head, his phlegmatic nature goaded into resentment by his wife's ill-temper and the lamentations of Jubal. "I don't reckon you expect supper to keep waitin' till breakfast," he said. "You've given your ma trouble enough 'thout makin' her do an extra washin' up on your o'count.
"I went 'most three winters, sir, but I had to leave off on o'count o' pa's not havin' any hand 'cep'n me." The judge smiled. "Ah, well," he returned. "We'll see if you can't begin again. My boy has a tutor, you know, and his playmates come to study with him. He's about your age, and it will give you a start. Come in to-morrow at nine, and we'll talk it over. No, don't get up. I am going."
Rachael's dat yaller gal up to Mrs. Nelson's. I done raise her, an' she ain't a bit o'count.
You've gone clean crazy sence you've been loafin' round with them Battles. I don't see as you air much o'count, nohow." Nicholas raised his eyes to his father's face and looked at him fixedly. For a moment he did not speak, and then he said slowly: "I'm as good as a hand to you."
"Thar's a contrariness in the rest of 'em that makes 'em tryin' companions to a rational critter like man, with a firm grip on his heart. To think of gittin' a husband like Abel Revercomb the risin' man in the county an' then to turn aside from the comforts of life on o'count of nothin' mo' than a feelin'."
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