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"But all little boys have another name, Patsy." "Oh, I got another, if yer so dead set on it, it's Dinnis, but Jim says 't won't wash; 't ain't no 'count, and I wouldn't tell yer nothin' but a sure-pop name, and that's Patsy. Jim says lots of other fellers out to the 'sylum has Dinnis fur names, and they ain't worth shucks, nuther. Dinnis he must have had orful much boys, I guess." "Who is Jim?"
And it tells anybody that's found her or got news of her to let them 'sylum folks know." "As if anybody with a heart in their body would do that!" commented Mrs. Collins. "I bound you let folks know she was here. If you jest had sense enough to keep yo' mouth shet, Peter Collins! That long tongue of yours goin' to be the ruin of you yet." "I ain't unparted my lips," asserted her husband.
"If a man was trying to make a girl marry him when she just hated him, could anybody make her do it, and would anybody have a right to put her in an insane 'sylum or anythin' ef she wouldn't?" "Why, no, of course not! Where did you ever get such a ridiculous idea?"
Some women is born with a way to manage children. She was." She nodded toward the yard. "Remember how she used to do those 'sylum children? Led 'em into more mischief than all the rest put together, but she always led 'em out, and they were like sheep behind her. Loved her. That was it. Ain't it funny the things folks will do for a person just on account of lovin' 'em?
If the gentleman is here you may go home and sleep; he is safe enough." "A prison? No!" "A 'sylum, my lady." THE lady put her hand to her heart, and was silent a long time. At last she said, doggedly but faintly, "You will go with me to that place to-morrow, one of you." "I'll go, my lady," said Moss. "Will, here, had better not show his face. They might take the law on him for that there shot."
"Well, if you'd been brought up in a 'sylum without any folks that cared, instead of by a whole lot of old women who didn't have anything to do but tell you how to talk right, maybe you'd say 'you was, and a whole lot more worse things, Pollyanna Whittier!" "Why, Jimmy Bean!" flared Pollyanna.
"And what happened next?" she prompted. Pollyanna had, for the moment, forgotten all about the original subject of the controversy the name "Jamie" that was dubbed "sissy." The boy sighed. "We just went on till we found another place. And 'twas there dad died. Then they put me in the 'sylum." "And then you ran away and I found you that day, down by Mrs. Snow's," exulted Pollyanna, softly.
But he couldn't make the judge see it nor could I. They let Rufus Blent have his way, and Uncle Pete went to the 'sylum. "Then they ordered me off the island. I believe Blent wanted to s'arch it himself for the treasure box. He's a sneakin' man I allus hated him," said Jerry, clenching his fist angrily. "But they could ha' put me in the jug if I'd tried to fight him. So I come away.
'What d'yo want 'im for? she asked contemptuously, as the new-comer approached: 'he'd owt to be in th' sylum. Aunt Hannah says he's gone that silly, he owt to be took up. 'Well, he woan't be, then, retorted David. 'Theer's nobory about as ull lay a finger on 'im. He doan't do her no harm, nor yo noather. Women foak and gells allus want to be wooryin soomthin.
The organ-grinder would be glad of her company, of any company, in fact; so he waited unquestioningly, while Glory explained, insisted, and finally overcame the expostulations of Timothy and Mary. "Yes, she must go. Not until she had looked forever and ever could she be shut up in a ''sylum' where she could look no further.
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