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"She's educated, too more in your class, Mr. Gray. I dunno how she stands for me. She's the smartest, purtiest girl " "She's young, eh?" "She's older 'n I am. I reckon she's mebbe twenty-five. I never ast her." "Naturally. How did you meet her? When? Where? I'm a terribly romantic old fool." Gray hitched his chair closer and leaned forward, his face keen with interest.
He was a comely nigger, black as night, an' he sho' could read out of his han'. He neber larned no real readin' an' writin' but he sho' knowed his Bible an' would hol' his han' out an' mek lak he was readin' an' preach de purtiest preachin' you ever heered. De meetin's last frum early in de mawnin' 'til late at night.
An' we're a-goin' to let 'im go. The purtiest part about it is thet this here great book-writer has invited him to pay him a visit. Think o' that, will you? Think of a man thet could think up a whole row o' books a-takin' sech a' int'res' in our plain little Arkansas Sonny.
'Ah, then, Masther Robert, an' we're done wid the poor ould counthry for good an' all! Andy Callaghan's big bony hands are clasped in a tremor of emotion that would do honour to a picturesque Italian exile. 'The beautiful ould counthry, as has the greenest grass that ever grew, an' the clearest water that ever ran, an' the purtiest girls in the wide world!
The crimson flower of the trumpet flower trailed everywhere, and a mighty vista was spread from foreground to horizon where the ashy purple of the last ridge merged with the sky. But for Jerry the chief beauty was all close at hand. "Alexander," he said, with his heart in his eyes, "ye're ther purtiest gal I ever seed ther purtiest gal I reckon anybody ever seed."
He kept his sorrow to himself, however, for he knew that if the others got an inkling of his feelings on the subject his name would have been promptly changed to "Dolly" or "Birdy," or some other equally horrible and un-Indian appellation. The Quarrel "Say, Yan, I saw a Blood-Robin this morning." "That's a new one," said Yan, in a tone of doubt. "Well, it's the purtiest bird in the country."
I've seen a fifty-bar'l bull make the purtiest fight I ever hearn tell ov a fight thet lasted twenty hours, stove three boats, 'n killed two men. Then, again, I've seen a hundred 'n fifty bar'l whale lay 'n take his grooel 'thout hardly wunkin 'n eyelid never moved ten fathom from fust iron till fin eout.
"She's a purty girl the purtiest indeed I ever laid my two livin' eyes upon, and by all accounts as good as she's purty; but I say that, face to face, you're as good, ay, an' as handsome, Fardorougha, as she is. God bless her, any way, an' mark her to grace and happiness, ma colleen dhas dhun."
"This is the purtiest rattler I've seen this season," he declared with enthusiasm. "Look at the markin' on him. I thought it ud show up kind of nifty laid around the cantle of your saddle. A rattlesnake skin shore makes a purty trimmin', to my notion. Don't know what he was doin' out of his hole so late in the season. He was so chilled I got him easy an old feller nine rattles and a button."
"Tracey," he said solemnly, "I swear to you that not even that indispensable article of commerce could stick me on Angie." The boy sighed. "Thank you, Mr. Duncan. I was only worryin' because you and Angie is singin' together in the choir, now Josie Lockwood's gone to school, an' an' Angie's the purtiest girl in town and I was 'fraid 't you might like her best, when Josie's away.
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