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Because there's a humanity about him. A weak man hissel', aye slippin', slippin', slippin', and tryin' to haud up; sorrowin' ae minute, sinnin' the next; doin' ill deeds and wishin' 'em undone just a plain human man, a sinner. And that's why I'm thinkin he's tender for us as is like him. He understood.
"Got darker as I got older, Lizzie, an' th' typhoid put them girl-twists into th' ends of it. Bet you're a wishin' for it all th' women folks do. Wish you had it." They went for a walk after supper and talked of many things. He was the same Luther, grown older and even more companionable.
I was ridin' down a gulley about sunset and wishin' that I was closer to the ranch when I heard a funny, wild sort of whistlin' that didn't have any tune to it that I recognized. It gave me a queer feelin'. It made me think of fairy stories an' things like that! Pretty soon I seen a figure on the crest of the hill.
Allen says 't if they have Brunhilde Susan they can just as well fuss with the cow too, so 's far as I c'n see there'll be no church Sunday, 'n' I certainly am grateful, for all the time 't I was in church last Sunday I was wishin' 't I was in the crick instid, 'n' I don't consider such thoughts upliftin'." Mrs. Lathrop slapped at a mosquito.
"However," he added, trying to force himself into a greater show of graciousness, "here's wishin' all may go well with you, as with all of us!" Not over-pleased with this cold reception of his advances, Jerrem turned hastily round to Joan. "Here, let's have a kiss, Joan," he said. "Iss, twenty, my dear, so long as you'll only be quick 'bout it." "Eve!"
"De trouble wid Wellin'ton wuz," she replied, "dat he did n' know when he wuz well off. He wuz alluz wishin' fer change, er studyin' 'bout somethin' new." "Ez fer me," responded the elder earnestly, "I likes things what has be'n prove' an' tried an' has stood de tes', an' I can't 'magine how anybody could spec' ter fin' a better housekeeper er cook dan you is, Sis' Milly.
Docthor, here's wishin' you all happiness, an' may you set Mike on his legs wanst more! See, Docthor see, man alive look at this purty girl here, wid her wet cheeks; give her some hope, ahagur, if you can; keep the crathur's spirits up, an' I'll furnish you wid every yarrib in Europe, from the nettle to the rose." "Don't despair, my good girl," said the Doctor, addressing Peggy.
Hepsey used to watch her as she sat buried in her book when the day's work was done, and once a heavy sigh roused Christie from the most exciting crisis of "The Abbot." "What's the matter? Are you very tired, Aunty?" she asked, using the name that came most readily to her lips. "No, honey; I was only wishin' I could read fast like you does.
"And would it come true for another boy any boy who went a-tramping off like that? Would he find whatever he was wishin' for?" And even as he spoke his eyes left hers and went searching for the far-away hills and what might lie beyond. "Come here, little lad." Patsy drew him to her and put two steadying hands on his shoulders.
"Bull got greedy an' was for charterin' another schooner an' givin' all comers a run for their money, but I was wise enough to see the danger o' numbers, an' argued him out of it. I went mate on the Dashin' Wave, as per program, an' on a lovely summer day we towed out, with half San Francisco crowdin' the wharves an' wishin' us bon voyage, which is French for a profitable trip.
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