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Rout, smiling pitifully at random. "What's that?" asked Mr. Rout, wildly. "Pick up . . . ? I don't care. . . ." Then, quivering in every muscle, but with an exaggeration of paternal tone, "Go away now, for God's sake. You deck people'll drive me silly. There's that second mate been going for the old man. Don't you know? You fellows are going wrong for want of something to do. . . ."
When she began to dress in her old clothes for the journey, he protested. "Throw all these things away," he urged. "Wear one of the new dresses and hats." "But they're not exactly suitable for traveling." "People'll think you lost your baggage. I don't want ever to see you again looking any way except as you ought to look." "No, I must take care of those clothes," said she firmly.
You just try to make your clothes and buy your school books on nothing. Dad's just afraid people'll know how little he earns, that's all. Men are selfish pigs." Astonished by this outburst, Billy turned round to look up at Lydia. She was wearing her Sunday dress of the year before, a cheap cotton that she had outgrown. The young man at her feet did not see this.
But I'll tell you one thing I do think I wish your father had made a clean breast of things to me at first, when he gave me that interview, or had told everything when he first went into that box." "Why?" she asked. "Because he's now set up an atmosphere of doubt and suspicion around himself. People'll think Heaven knows what they'll think!
And that gives the railroad enough to work on, so the rest of the people'll just have to sell for what they can get. He's gone now; skipped out." "But he has not gone!" Ruth snapped out indignantly. "I saw him only half an hour ago." "Oh, well, of course," said the woman knowingly, "you'd know more about it than anybody else. It's all talk, I suppose."
She may escape me for a while, but I shall get her sooner or later." "But s'pose somebody else gits her first?" "You mean young Hampton?" Randall somewhat anxiously asked. "I sartinly do. He's hot on her trail, an' it looks to me as if they're mighty fond of each other. Mebbe they're off now to be hitched up. Ye kin never tell what notions young people'll take."
Ranger looked amused. This from the young man who had for years been "picking" at her because she was unconventional! "People will misunderstand you, mother," had been his oft-repeated polite phrase. She couldn't resist a mild revenge. "People'll misunderstand, if she comes. They'll think she's running after me."
"We'll go where there's a big population to be drawn on," said he. But he did not say that in the back of his head there was forming a plan to take a small theater at Jeffersonville if the girl made a hit there. Eshwell, to whom he was talking, looked glum. "She's going pretty good with these greenies," observed he. "But I've my doubts whether city people'll care for anything so milk-like."
Not only his good teeth grinned, but his eyes grinned also, if the figure may be used. "Fifth Avenue!" he laughed. "There's been no Fifth Avenue in mine. I'm not used to anything, but you may bet your life I'm going to get used to Harlem, if you people'll let me. I've just got this job, and I'm dead stuck on it. I want to make it go." "He's mighty different from Biker," said Mrs.
Oh! it's going to be town property before night, I guess, and lots of people'll be pointing their fingers at every fellow wearing khaki, and saying they always knew scouts was no better than the law allowed. Oh! wouldn't I like to get hold of that Hen Condit, though." "What makes them believe it was Hen" continued Elmer.
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