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"I reckon," she said quietly to Jason, "ef you knowed whut that boy an' gal has been a-doin' fer ye, you wouldn't be a-actin' that-a-way." And then she explained and started for home. Both stood still silent and dumfounded and only Mavis spoke at last. "BOTH of us beholden to BOTH of 'em." Jason made no answer, but bent to his work.
The hoe was arrested at the height of a vicious stroke and the little girl whirled without a cry, but the blood from her pumping heart crimsoned her face and made her eyes shine with gladness. Her eyes went to her feet and her hands to her hair. "You oughtn't to slip up an' s-startle a lady that-a-way," she said with grave rebuke, and Hale looked humbled.
"Oh, don't brake my heart that-a-way!" sobbed Andy; "sure, there's wool on any dirty sheep's back, but linen is dacency! Oh, mother, mother, if you thought your poor girl was without a sheet this night!"
We turned our heads that-a-way, jest as a nigger man give a leap to the top of a rail fence that separated the road from the woods.
"I'm goin' to tell yo'-all something," said Curly Bill, "that mebbe it will come in handy to remember. Now here." He drew his forty-five and held it forth butt foremost in his right hand. "Don't ever go to take a man's gun that-a-way," he went on, "for when yo' are figuring that yo' have the drop on him and he is makin' the play to give it up Jest reach out now to get it."
The sunlight sifted through in great, unbroken patches of gold, falling on the beds of fern and moss and yes, there they were, the promised lady's-slippers. A little, indrawn sigh of ecstasy from Patsy caused the tinker to turn about. "Then you're not hatin' gold when you find it growin' green that-a-way?" he chuckled. Patsy shook her head with vehemence. "Never!
Often and often White has told me about seeing Hank, after he'd sold a piece of land, treating the hull town down in Nolan's bar-room jest as come-easy, go-easy as if it wasn't money he orter paid his honest debts with." They set there that-a-way telling of what good pints they could think of fur ten minutes, and Hank a-hearing it and getting madder and madder all the time.
It was more than a mile to where the animal stood, and curiously, as though to make amends for his previous bad behavior to Ruth, he came trotting forward to Randerson, whinnying gently. Randerson seized the bridle, and grinned at the animal. "I reckon I ought to lam you a-plenty, you miserable deserter," he said severely, "runnin' away from your mistress that-a-way.
It was very evident that Stoddard desired to detain them in conversation, but Johnnie smilingly, yet with decision, cut the interview short. "I don't see why you hurried me a-past that-a-way," the little mother said resentfully, when they had gone a few steps. "I wanted to stay and talk to the gentleman, if you didn't. I think he's one of the nicest persons I've met since I've been in Cottonville.
"War on Belgium!" "England has declared war?" asked the young lieutenant, in surprise. "Yassah, yassah. I jes' hearn erbout it." "Then which way shall we go?" "Yo'al must go that-a-way," came the answer, and Uncle Billy pointed toward the southwest, in the direction of the faraway frontier of The Netherlands.
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