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"Of course, now our load's gone, the brake works all right, an' I hooks a-holt onto the side about a hundred feet from where Jess stands like a marble statute, lookin' down inter the gulch. "'Come on, Jud, says I, layin' my hand onto his arm soft-like; 'we gits out here. "He don't say nothin', but tries to shake me off.
... Yes, madam, it was all left to me. Oh, she did look sweet. I did her hair, soft-like, round her forehead, all in dainty curls, and just to one side of her neck I put a bunch of most beautiful purple pansies. Those pansies made a picture of her, madam! I shall never forget them. I thought to-night, when I looked at my lady, "Now, if only the pansies was there no one could tell the difference."
"Well, I heard some one holler back, soft-like, 'Yoo-hoo! It didn't sound just right, so I walked on a little more. 'Yoo-hoo! says I. Then I seen a man come out of the bushes. I seen it wasn't you, all right. He come on right fast, and Mary I couldn't of believed it, but it's the truth. It was Charlie Charlie Dorenwald! I couldn't make no mistake about them legs.
The poor creetur see him, and could hardly walk to meet him. “Oh, Harry!” she says, “that it should have come to this; and all for my sake,” says she, putting her hand upon his shoulder. So he puts his arm round her pretty little waist, and leading her gently a little way into the room, so that he might be able to shut the door, he says, so kind and soft-like—“Why, Kate,” says he—’
Jo G. I wish t' gracious I'd laid the hull blamed business t' Pa, fur Pa kin stand it bein' so soft-like." Janet reached the dunes in good time, but the distance had never seemed so long before. The throbbing, hurt heart outstripped the faithful little Comrade doing its best before the favoring wind. Every tack seemed a mile, and a fever rose in the blood of the silent girl at the tiller.
"In a few moments," answered Maggie; but Jane added to her persuasions by saying: "And it's snowing, too; a snow kind of soft-like that'll be turning into rain before long, and Miss Bessie'll get wet."
But we wasn't countin' too much on it bein' miracle day an' we kept the wheels goin' round with the whistle over-'ead an' the crashes behind to discourage any loiterin' to gather flowers by the way. 'An' when we was well past an' slowed down again I heard the Left'nant draw a deep breath an' say soft-like ". . . a packet o' Chinese crackers." 'But 'e said something stronger that same night.
Yeh said yeh didn't think it was safe, an' I kep' a-goadin' yeh to it; an' now She broke out a-blubberin' an' a-bellerin' again, an' he puts his arm aroun' her an' smiles, an' says soft-like: "'It don't matter much. I can raise the money an' buy a new one fer Mis' Sneath. How much do they cost? says he. "'Oh, I dunno! Five hundred dollars, I think. It's an awful lot o' money!
I'd be glad to ha' ye wi' me to speak to i' th' night, for ye've got a nice way o' talkin'. It puts me i' mind o' the swallows as was under the thack last 'ear when they fust begun to sing low an' soft-like i' th' mornin'. Eh, but my old man war fond o' them birds! An' so war Adam, but they'n ne'er comed again this 'ear. Happen THEY'RE dead too."
He wouldn't believe it at first, though the cook told 'im, Bill Hicks told him, and Walter Jones 'ad a grandfather that went off in just the same way. "I'm not going to die," says Thomas "How can I die and leave all that money?" "It'll be good for your relations, Thomas," says Walter Jones. "I ain't got any," says the old man. "Well, your friends, then, Thomas," says Walter, soft-like.
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