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He said it was all right to knock about from one thing to another while you were still in the gristle. Up to twenty a boy's years were kind of yeasty and uncertain, and if he was any way self-headed he ought to be left to run. But after twenty he lost his pinfeathers and should begin to think about things. So Wilbur began to think about things.
"Overchancy," he repeated. "Everything overchancy," said Sharon Whipple after another silence, waving his cigar largely at life. "She's a self-headed little tike," he added a moment later. "Self-headed!" Harvey D. here made loose-wristed gestures meaning despair, after which he detected and put in its proper place a burned match beside Sharon's chair.
Later Sharon tried to avoid Winona one day on River Street, but when he saw that she would not be avoided he met her like a man. "I've reasoned with the boy from time to time," he confessed, gloomily, "but he's self-headed, talking huge high about being a good lightweight and all that. I don't know mebbe I haven't taken just the right tack with him yet."
'I'm quite sorry for your injuries; but that was the first chance I'd ever had to make a report and I couldn't write one of these continuous stories about you. You ought to see that. And what does he do but revile me for this commonsense talk! Tightminded that's what he is; self-headed, not to say mulish, by doggie!
"You'll say I was drunk too next." "It doesn't matter to you what I say, or what I go through with. I've stood more than I rightly ought, more than I'm going to you must give me one thought in a day. You just act low. Father was self-headed, but he was never real trashy. He never got into fights at those common camp meetings."
"I'd often thought of adopting," said Harvey D., "in the last two years," he carefully added. "This youngster," said Gideon; "of course we should never have heard of him but for Pat's mad adventure, starting off with God only knows what visions in her little head." "She'd have gone, too," said Sharon, dusting ashes from his waistcoat to the rug. "Self-headed!"
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