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The rifle lay against the wall behind him, and he turned and touched it almost caressingly. "I ain't let go like this since he was killed, Sinnet. It don't do. I got to keep myself stiddy to do the trick when the minute comes. At first I usen't to sleep at nights, thinkin' of Clint, an' missin' him, an' I got shaky and no good.
This was a new phase of Shiel Crozier's character. He must, indeed, have changed since he had caused her so much anxiety in days gone by. "Usen't he to be so?" asked Kitty, a little viciously. "He is so very exact now," she added. "He expected to be back home before this" how she loved to use that word home "and so we thought he would be here when you arrived.
"Of course, you were staring as though I were an Indian or Chinaman. If my face is dirty, say so." "It isn't dirty." "Well, then " "You're always so cross." "I'm not cross only you're so silly " "You usen't always to say I was silly. Now you always do every minute." "So you are." Then as he saw the tears coming he would get up and go away.
That is why I wish Dolly had not come, too, to-day. Still, he wanted them all to come. It has to be." "Why does he want them?" Margaret did not answer. "Meg, may I tell you something? I like Henry." "You'd be odd if you didn't," said Margaret. "I usen't to." "Usen't!" She lowered her eyes a moment to the black abyss of the past. They had crossed it, always excepting Leonard and Charles.
And then I began to be frightened. It was very lonely here for a girl who had had a gay time, and he usen't to like my going to Truro and at last he even stopped my seeing people in Treliss. And then I began to be really frightened and used to wake in the night and see him standing by the door watching me.
If you bump against Bella she hurts." "I don't believe 'Da' was beautiful, when I come to think of it; and Mademoiselle's almost ugly." "Mademoiselle has a very nice face." "Oh! yes; nice. I love your little rays, Mum." "Rays?" Little Jon put his finger to the outer corner of her eye. "Oh! Those? But they're a sign of age." "They come when you smile." "But they usen't to." "Oh! well, I like them.
He makes blunders that would disgrace an undergraduate and doesn't care a rap so long as a hall-full of fools cheer him." "You usen't to talk like this!" "No because I had illusions," was the sharp reply. "Glenwilliam was one of them. Land! what does he know about land? what does a miner who won't learn! know about farming?
An' when I saw it hurt him I usen't to do it again for a while at least. I think that was a grand way to bring up a daughter. I've been wonderin' since I've been here if an aunt could bring a niece up the same way." And she looked quizzically at Mrs. Chichester.
Sometimes I usen't to sleep a whole night long, for thinking that some lad I had been playing with, perhaps in his own house, that very day, would be taken when he died, and his mother too, when she died, and thrown into the flames of hell for all eternity.
I hate it, being comfortable up there and not seeing and not hearing and not caring. Seems to me we just live to have a good time. Well, of course, people ought to do that, it's the thing to live for, and I usen't to mind before I was rich, and father and Felicity and you and I had a good time together.
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