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Jed rubbed his chin. "Step out of 'em, I guess likely," he drawled. "Humph! Yes well, any self-respectin' person would do that, even if he had to go barefooted the rest of his life. But, what I'm gettin' at is this: Babbitt'll come to me orderin' me to get Leander exempted. And what'll I say?" Winslow turned and looked at him.
"No, the the Nix the cat?" "Certaintly we like him. He's a decent, self-respectin' little fella that 'tends to his own business, an' keeps good hours. An' you'd oughter see how grand him an' Flicker gets along! Talk o' a cat-and-dog existence!
"How like Lucy to go away!" mused Jane, when the recital was done. "Any self-respectin' woman would have done the same, too. She warn't goin' to hang round here an' make you marry her out of pity." "But I love her." "Yes, but how was she to know that?" "She must have known it." "You never had told her so." "N o, not in so many words."
She drained her glass, blew her nose, and wiped her eyes. She was sitting loosely forward now, her hand out on his. "You're the only thing on God's earth that's kept me from sneakin" back there honest. Lew, I'd have gone back long ago and eat dirt to make it up with him if not for you. I ain't built like Kittie Scogin and those girls. I got to be self-respectin' with the fellows or nothing.
"This: that ten years from now, with her own Government, with her own language back again Gaelic an' what language in the wurrld yields greater music than the old Gaelic? with Ireland united and Ireland's land in the care of IRISHMEN: with Ireland's people self-respectin' an' sober an' healthy an' educated: with Irishmen employed on Irish industries, exportin' them all over the wurrld: with Ireland's heart beatin' with hope an' faith in the future do ye know what will happen?"
Is he the sober, genteel kind who could sit out an evening in a self-respectin' girl's front parlor?" "I I can't ask a fellow if he didn't ask me, can I? I can't make a pusher out of myself." "A girl don't have to make a pusher out of herself to have beaus; it's natural for her to have them in moderation. I don't want my girl shut out of her natural pleasures."
Seth, it ain't true, not a word of it. Did you think I'd get a divorce? Me? A self-respectin' woman? And from you?" "You turned me adrift." "I didn't. You turned yourself adrift. I was in trouble, bound by a promise I give my dyin' husband, to give his brother a home while I had one. I didn't want to do it; I didn't want him with us there, where we'd been so happy. But I couldn't say anything.
"But what is it?" insisted Maud, her voice almost drowned in the shriek of one of the twins, whose long thin hair she had jerked by way of emphasis. Under cover of the scream, the mother replied: "'T ain't fit t' talk about 'fore a self-respectin' girl. But I don't want you should have anything t' do with Janet after t'-day."
Fletcher, if they had dyed Molly Peterkin's hair black she might have been a self-respectin' woman an' a hater of men this very day. A light character an' a light head go precious well together, an' when you set one a good sober colour the other's pretty apt to follow." Fletcher rose from his chair and stood gripping the table hard.
"With me, in my former profession, it would have been criminal to touch the stuff. The worst crime a burglar can commit is to get drunk. No decent, bang-up burglar ever does it. I don't suppose there is a more self-respectin' sort of man in the world than a high-grade burglar. And it's the same with a preacher.
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