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He took his red cap from under his arm, sighing, and slouched away from the bluff edge, the coarse homespun which he wore revealing knots and joints in his work-hardened frame. "Ye dog, am I to have my supper to-night?" "Yes, grandfather." But Jean took one more look at the capital of his love, which he had never entered, and for which he was unceasingly homesick.
I'd be good to you, Tillie, I swear it. It'd be just the same as marriage. Nobody need know it." "You'd know it. You wouldn't respect me." "Don't a man respect a woman that's got courage enough to give up everything for him?" Tillie was crying softly into her apron. He put a work-hardened hand on her head. "It isn't as if I'd run around after women," he said.
Murphy!" murmured Neale O'Neil and returned the pressure of the cobbler's work-hardened palm. But Agnes got up and ran around the table and hugged him! "You you are the dearest old man who ever lived, Mr. Murphy!" she sobbed, and implanted a tearful kiss right upon the top of the cobbler's little snub nose! "Huh!" grunted Mr. Sorber. Then he said "Huh!" again.
She sat and watched his deft and work-hardened hands as he dipped and washed and drew and scaled his spoil. He was a clean-skinned, blue-eyed Canadian Irishman, well made and sinewy, bright and open of countenance. His blond hair clung in almost flaxen tendrils to his warm forehead.
"That he burned he didn't mean to he burned the letter I sent asking " "I see! You wrote a letter, then?" "Yes. He told me, if I wanted him and I did Godda'mighty! how I wanted him then!" Nella-Rose clasped her poor little work-hardened hands close, and her small white teeth showed through the parted lips while she struggled to regain her calm.
Her son watched her face as it was lifted, and her small, work-hardened hands fingering at the bow under her chin. "Well," she answered, "it's not really dangerous, but the nurse says it's a dreadful smash. You see, a great piece of rock fell on his leg here and it's a compound fracture. There are pieces of bone sticking through " "Ugh how horrid!" exclaimed the children.
"I will tell you this, my child, that without these work-hardened hands you would not be what you are now; if you have lived in a society where it is considered shameful for a woman to have such hands, you have lived in an evil society. And to-day you enjoyed that society, enjoyed it as though you believed you yourself had attained a certain greatness in it." "No, mother; no, no!" "Yes, you did!
"Oh, Denver!" she exclaimed as she sensed the significance of it, and before he knew it she was patting his work-hardened hand. "I'm sorry," she said, "but if ever I can help you I want you to let me know. Would it help to have me for a friend?" "A friend!" he repeated, and then he drew back and the horror came into his eyes.
Under the worn homespun coverlet, stained with the dull dyes of barks and berries, lay an emaciated figure, just as it had been brought into the hospital. One long coarse garment covered it, and the bare feet with their prominent ankle bones and the large work-hardened hands might have belonged to either a boy or a girl. "Take that thar head wrappin' off!" ordered the old man peremptorily.
And then related what he had seen and heard. "Well, blast my jets!" exclaimed Astro, when Tom had finished. "What's behind it, do you think?" "I don't know, Astro. But I'm convinced that any guy that'll visit Galaxy Hall by himself late at night and cry well, he couldn't be entirely off base, regardless of what he does." Astro studied his work-hardened palms.
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