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His fears touching her understanding, or her lack of it, were confirmed when he had reached a stopping-place. "They-all up yonder in that school where you was at hain't got much sense, it looks like to me," was her comment. "You're a man growed now, Tom-Jeff, and if you want to play cards or drink whisky, what-all business is it o' their'n?"
I reckon it's beyond you to know what she come to mean to them. Wal, I'll tell you. They-all went clean out of their heads. They-all got soft an' easy an' sweet-tempered. They got so they couldn't kill a coyote, a crippled calf in a mud-hole. They took to books, an' writin' home to mother an' sister, an' to savin' money, an' to gittin' married.
They-all wanted to save me from myself, but they forgot him and then when he said" the girl gasped "that he wanted me I had to go! I did not go because any one compelled me I just had to go! I was led like when I married Lans. More and more I see it now; I feel it in the night.
You see I've been very sick; they said I'd lost my health, but I know I've only misplaced it." Again the cheerful laugh set Greeley's nerves tingling. "They-all say that when they-all come up here." Greeley felt in honour bound to give the young woman a hint as to his reading of her and her mission. "It's a good spot, then, for weak lungs?"
"Where will you go, my darling?" he asked. "Since they-all do not know" she was lying against his breast, her eyes heavy now with grief at the parting "I reckon I will go home to wait." Solemnly Truedale kissed her and turned dejectedly away. Once again he paused and looked back. She stood against the tree, small and shabby, but the late afternoon sun transfigured her.
"If they-all see you, they will have you killed that minute. Burke is the only one in their minds they don't even know that you live; they're too full of Burke, and if they see me why they'd kill you anyway." "But what can I do with you?" That thought alone swayed Truedale. Then Nella-Rose got upon her feet and stood close to him. "I'm yours! I gave myself to you. You you wanted me.
He has really done us a good turn by throwing light on the past." "He he laughed!" muttered Martin. "They-all laugh that-er-way. Big things is little to them-all; and little things is big! Them Hertfords be no-count! They all sound upperty and look upperty, but they-all is trash!" "Come, come, Dad! Lans isn't trash. He's done me more than one good turn."
She knew Crothers' boarding-house keeper; knew her to be a decent soul who had more than once, lately, brought a hot meal to her at midday when she brought Crothers'. There was snow in the air, too, and a late ride through the woods at night was almost more awful than to stay at the factory. "They-all will worry," she faltered in her pretty, slow way.
Shucks! thar hain't one o' th' lot could sit a real twister long enough to git his seat warm; about th' second jump would have 'em clawin' sand. "Only thing in their hull circus wo'th lookin' at is that red-maned gal, an' she looks that sweet an' innercent she don't 'pear to rightly belong in that thar bare-legged bunch o' she dido-cutters. They-all must 'a mavericked her recent.
"Brother Bill Layne, and Aunt M'randy, and Japhe Pettigrass. They-all went in town to stan' up with me and Nan." Then Tom remembered the figure coming swiftly across the lawns and the call of the voice he loved. Had Japheth told her, and was she hastening to make such reparation as she could? No matter, it was too late now.
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