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Tinkie Clifford, she that used to dance in the cheap variety shows at 'Frisco, and her particular friend, Captain Sykes. It would have just killed you, Jack," she said, with a sudden hysteric burst of laughter, "to have seen Josh, in his square, straight-out way, trying to be civil and help things along.
"I suppose I would," he said slowly. "And married her?" She rattled the bars of the grate with the poker as if to drown the inevitable reply. Mr. Rylands loved the woman before him, but it pleased him to think that he loved truth better. "If it had been necessary to her salvation, yes," he said. "Not Tinkie?" she said suddenly. "SHE never would have been in your contrite condition."
"Couldn't you make yourself one of them cigarettys, as they call 'em? Here's the tobacco, and I'll get you the paper." "I COULD," she said tentatively. Then suddenly, "What made you think of it? You never saw ME smoke!" "No," said Rylands, "but that lady, your old friend, Miss Clifford, does, and I thought you might be hankering after it." "How do you know Tinkie Clifford smokes?" said Mrs.
We took him over the smooth acres from Lone Pine to Woody Ledge, from the top of Bowman's Hill to Tinkie Brook in the far valley. He went with us through every tidy room of the house. He looked over the stock and the stables. 'Wall! what's it wuth? he said, at last, as we stood looking down the fair green acres sloping to the sugar bush.
"You shall have the dress to-morrow, Ellen," he said gently, "and you can put away these gewgaws. You don't need to look like Tinkie Clifford." He did not see the look of triumph that lit up her eye, but added, "Go on and play." She sat down obediently to the instrument.
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