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"I'll niver go back to 'm. He can have his house to himsilf.... What do I care for Father Dumphy? He wants nothin' but the dime I leaves at the choorch doore, an' the dime I drops on the plate! Whin me poorse's impty, he'll not bother his head about me!" "Shame on yuh!" Mrs. Byrne wheezed, with her eye on the house she was passing. "Yuh talk no better than a Prod'stunt."
The night was mild, and so he made Yvonne's bed and his own within the enclosure, and amid a babel of sounds, above which the barrel organ of the carousel near by wheezed tremulously, they dropped upon the blankets, dead tired, and fell asleep at once. The sun was not long in the heavens before the barrel organ, silenced at midnight, renewed its plaint and the business of the day began.
"But isn't there anything you'd like? Can't I get you anything? See, I can run about and you are here in bed. Tell me what I can do." Mrs. Jones blinked and worked her mouth and blinked again and wheezed and cleared her throat. "Well, I do know of something would comfort me," she said at last, amid much embarrassed coughing. "Tell me," said Priscilla. "I don't like," coughed Mrs. Jones.
She turned her face wildly to the cushions again. Her young shoulders shook as if they might break. " Wo-men-women-they always " By a strange mishap of management the train which bore Coleman back toward New York was fetched into an obscure side-track of some lonely region and there compelled to bide a change of fate. The engine wheezed and sneezed like a paused fat man.
In a quarter of an hour she brought her back almost well, except for the pain in her head. "Where the hell hae ye been, Mag?" wheezed the old gaffer, addressing the woman with irritated authority. "Awa' an' boil yer can, auld belly-crawler," was the elegant response, as she bent to her work, taking as little notice of him as if he were a piece of coal. "Ye're awa' faur owre much," he returned.
He put his hand under his wretched pillow. "Give me the money," he wheezed. "When ye lay it in my hand I'll pass the envelope over to ye. Count it out first." Latimer counted the bills. This was the moment. Twenty years gone by and nothing could be changed. He put the money on the bed. Stamps withdrew his hand from under the pillow.
"I believe, young man, granting permits is discretionary with the Supervisor," stated that individual. "I suppose so," agreed Bob. "But Mr. Lejeune has always had permission before. What reason do you assign for refusing it?" "Wilful trespass," wheezed Plant. "That's what, young man. His sheep grazed over our line.
He fixed his eyes on one spot, raised his hand curved into a hollow, and suddenly fell on his stomach on the ground and slapped the hollow of his hand down upon the grass. "Caught!" he wheezed triumphantly, and, getting up, lifted a big grasshopper to Yegorushka's eyes.
Ludelmeyer's store and he wheezed, "Goot mornin', Mrs. Kennicott. Vell, dis iss a fine day," she did not notice the dustiness of the shelves nor the stupidity of the girl clerk; and she did not remember the mute colloquy with him on her first view of Main Street. She could not find half the kinds of food she wanted, but that made shopping more of an adventure.
The hand was gone; his face was averted, and a corpulent priest, all straight and black below his rosy round face, had stepped forward to say a Latin grace in solemn tones that wheezed a little. As soon as he had done he withdrew with a circular bow to the ladies, to Don Balthasar, who inclined his silvery head.
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