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"You ain't in no ways hampered by facts. But, anyway, we wasn't talkin' 'bout Injuns." "No, but we was goin' to," retorted Bill, "for I was about t' d'rect th' conversation in them channels when you makes them ign'rant interruptions." "Oh, go on an' talk, Bill," Jim Walker broke in. "Don't pertend that Shorty, nor th' whole United States Army, c'd stop you if you wanted t' chin."
But it don't seem fair to make love to them and pertend like I was nuts over them and then when I had learned all they was to know I would half to get rid of them and cast them to 1 side and god knows how many wounds I will leave behind me but probably as many as though I was a regular soldier or snipper but then I wouldn't feel so bad about it because it would be men and not girlies but everything goes in war fair as they say Al and if Uncle Sam and Gen.
It aint a slight thing, Alison; it aint the sort of thing that a girl can get over. There are you, only seventeen, and so pretty and like a real lady. Yes, you are; you needn't pertend you aint. Me and my people were always genteel, and you take after us. I'll see to it. You shan't be accused of theft, my dear, ef I can help it." "But you can't help it, Grannie dear.
Your ma'll 'ave forgotten all about it by goin'-out time or she'll pertend she 'as to save 'erself trouble. Come and 'elp us wi' the beds." Beth rose slowly from the piano-stool, and followed Harriet upstairs to the bedroom at the back of the house. She was at once attracted to the open window by an uproar of voices "the voices of children in happy play."
I might pertend as I'd had visions and revelations sent to me, and dress myself up in a black coat and a white neck-an-kecher, and suchlike paycock's plumes I might tar and feather myself if I pleased, if it come to that and give out as I was a prophit and a Latter Day Saint; but where 'ud be the difference, I want to know?
I've lived by the sea sixty year, you know, and I've watched all kinds of doings. But what I'm surest of is that it's deeper'n we be." He chuckled softly. "Now, I wouldn't pertend to know all about her," he waved his hand, "but she's big and she's fresh salt, too and she makes your heart big just to look at her the way it ought to, I reckon.
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