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"I'd take along a few sticks o' peppermint, too," he said, as he wistfully surveyed the candy-jars, "but I've got so I can't suck a stick without toothache. Ain't a bit o' fun treatin' yore stomach if you have to abuse yore gums while you are at it. Well, so long, boys," he said, after he had carefully counted the coins Cahews had put into his hand and was descending the steps.
His conscience smote him when he thought of the suspicions he had cherished, and there was a sudden revulsion. "After all," thought he, "Jack Carter is a good fellow. He don't look it, to be sure, but a man can't help his looks What is it the poet says, 'A man may smile and be a villain still. Jack's a rough customer, but he's treatin' Ben and me tiptop."
"After all, it's Dusty's birfdiy," said Mrs. Dusty with alacrity. The day was evidently growing in importance every minute. "You come along too," said little Mrs. Love, suddenly putting her hand in Jay's. "No treatin' nowadiys," said the Top Floor Chap amiably. "But I don't mind 'andin' around the price of a drink before we start."
Later on in the afternoon Joey, wandering in from Clayton's office on one of his self-constituted observation tours, found her crying softly while she wiped her typewriter, preparatory to covering it for the night. "Somebody been treatin' you rough?" he asked, more sympathetic than curious. "What are you doing here, anyhow?" she demanded, angrily. "You're always hanging around, spying on me."
Their dislike of negroes is simply an instinctive racial antipathy, plus a contempt for anyone who submits to servile conditions. A neighbor in the Smokies said to me: "I b'lieve in treatin' niggers squar. The Bible says they're human leastways some says it does and so there'd orter be a place for them. But it's some place else not around me!" That is the whole thing in a nutshell.
"Minds me o' one I got shook, five months ago, with a redheaded galoot I'd bin treatin' like a brother, on account of him bein' fly-blowed, an' the both of us travellin' the same road. Best shape saddle I ever had a leg over, that was. Will I have a try?" "Not worth while, Jack," I replied. "He might prop a little, certainly; but it's only playfulness."
If they'd gone on treatin' ye decent ye'd likely come out all right o' yer own hook. Hiram, pride's put a heap o' men in th' penitentiary. Pride's stubborn, Hiram. But layin' aside th' root o' th' trouble, an' lookin' at th' matter through their eyes, it's really a shame th' way yer paw's place has gone to ruin th' way you've gone th' same route.
He knows me. And the first thing you know he's been treatin' you, and so polite, showin' you round, and ast you to go to the theayter you advance the money, and you keep on with the first feller, and pretty soon he asks you to hold up a minute, he wants to go back and get a cigar; and he goes round the corner, and you hold up, and hold up, and in about a half an hour, or may be less time, you begin to smell a rat, and you go for a policeman, and the next morning you find your name in the papers, 'One more unfortunate! You look out for 'em, young feller!
"Circumstances, you well know, obliged me," said Shelby, haughtily. "Wal, you know, they may 'blige me, too," said the trader. "Howsomever, I'll do the very best I can in gettin' Tom a good berth; as to my treatin' on him bad, you needn't be a grain afeard. If there's anything that I thank the Lord for, it is that I'm never noways cruel."
Bacon is eastern Massachusetts delegate from the State Grange. She's Grand Excited Matron. Just think of treatin' her that way! Well, where've you been all the forenoon?" The question was addressed to her brother, who entered the house by the side door at that moment. Kenelm seemed a trifle confused. "I I been lookin' for that umbrella, Hannah," he explained.
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