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You ort to have young blood in this here enterprise; and then I just clubbed myself for being a lubber and not getting married young and havin' raised a son that I could trust. Yes, sir, jest nat'rally cussed myself from stem to stern, and never onct thought as mebbe my old messmate, Duncan McDonald, might 'a'done suthin' for his country afore that day at Vicks say!
In a letter to his mother, informing her of the change, he had said: Of course, I appreciate the fact that you are paying the bills, old dear, and out of consideration for you I dare say I ought to stick it out with the Vicks till November as we arranged. But I simply cannot stand it any longer.
It will be, as I said, a little more expensive living here than with the Vicks but not enough to amount to anything. The Dowds ask only fifteen dollars a week for room and board, which is cheaper than the Ritz-Carlton or the Commodore, isn't it?...Here is my new address in the Metropolis of Windomville-by-the-Crick: Dowd's Tavern, Main Street. Her reply was prompt.
"Where are we going?" she softly inquired; "not to New Orleans?" The nurse nodded brightly. "But how can we get by?" "By Vicksburg? We're already by there." "Has Vicks ?... Has Vicksburg fallen?" The confirming nod was tender. Anna turned away. Presently "But not Mobile? Mobile hasn't ?" "No, not yet. But it must, don't you think?" "No!" cried Anna. "It must not! Oh, it must not! I if I Oh, if I "
The car's going down to meet her at the ferry about ten o'clock." He departed in a very unpleasant frame of mind. This was laying it on a bit thick, he complained. If she thought she could treat him in this cavalier fashion she'd soon find out where she "got off." What business had she, anyhow, over at the Vicks? All the old women in the neighbourhood would be there to An idea struck him suddenly.
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