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The little thing had been upon the verge of passing on so many times, that her parents had grown skeptical of the doctor's prophecy that she could not live out the Summer. It seemed to Janice, however, that the little body was frailer, the little face wanner, the tiny smile more pitiful, each time she went to Pine Cove to see the baby.
"What is your name?" he asked, and then, "Well, Higgins, how are you feeling?" "Sure, I'm all right," said Jimmie sturdily; "I wanner get up, only she won't let me." "Well," said His Majesty, "the time was when the king was the tyrant, but now it's the nurse." He smiled at the Honourable lady. "Are you an American soldier?" "Naw," replied Jimmie, "I'm only a machinist."
"I wanner ask you," he continued, with drunken gravity, "on the squar', now, did you ever drink?" "Why, yes, Uncle," replied the younger man, smiling at the question, "I used to take a friendly glass, once in a while but I don't drink now." He added the last with a finality not to be mistaken, but Mr. Johnson of Hell's Hip Pocket was not there to urge him on. "No, no," he protested.
To be brief before they parted he won from her that his frequent meetings at church, and elsewhere, had gained him something more than esteem, but hopeless of ever becoming his wife, she had done her utmost to suppress wanner feelings. Oh! woman, thy name is deception! So she sent him away the happiest man in existence.
Poor, pale Ettie grew thinner and wanner under her law daily, while Maisie's temper, naturally docile, was being spoiled before one's eyes by persistent, needless thwarting. As spring came on, however, I began to hope that things were really mending. Le Geyt looked brighter; some of his own careless, happy-go-lucky self came back again at intervals.
While this passed, and while she spoke to my companions, I was taking note of Zenobia's aspect; and it impressed itself on me so distinctly, that I can now summon her up, like a ghost, a little wanner than the life but otherwise identical with it. It struck me as a great piece of good fortune that there should be just that glimpse.
At that fearful thought my heart begun to beat so voyalently as to almost stop my breath, and I felt I wuz growin' pale and wan, wanner, fur wanner than I had been sense I came to Saratoga. I love Josiah Allen, he is dear to me. And I riz up feelin' that I would find that dear man and rescue him or perish in the attempt. Yes, I felt that I must perish if I did not find him.
Dar she des set down all alone and sigh lak de breeze in de ole pine tree. Some days she gone away all alone and de brack folks say she wanner all aroun' in de woods. When Sunday come, she des slip into de churches lak a li'l mouse and nibble up de gospel crumbs and den run away before de priests cotch her. Dark days dose, in de ole Ballantrae mansion! And den come de night when dey pahted.
"You're mistaken, Mister er Mister " "Hardy," put in the little man. "Ah yes Hardy, eh? And a dam' good name, too. I served under a captain by that name at old Fort Grant, thirty years ago. Waal, Hardy, I like y'r face you look honest but I wanner ask you 'nuther question why don't you drink now, then?"
He couldn't git no work, mebby, and wuz obleeged to stand and see his family starve and suffer round him. Yes, he wuz a-walkin' along with his hands in his empty pockets and his eyes bent towards the ground. But the woman, though her face looked haggard, and fur wanner than hissen, yet she wuz a-lookin' back and reachin' out her arms towards the children that wuz a-comin' along fur back.
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