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Updated: May 6, 2025
There was something gruesome, uncanny, about the way her fingers went their own way over the defenseless keys. Her conversation with the frowzy little girl went on. "Wha'd he say?" "Oh, he laffed." "Well, didja go?" "Me! Well, whutya think I yam, anyway?" "I woulda took a chanst." The fat man rebelled. "Look here! Get busy! What are you paid for? Talkin' or playin'? Huh?"
It woulda been a pretty cheerful old field, I guess, if they'd let it alone, but them tin crosses looked pretty sick and the paint was peelin' off the tin flowers that people had stuck on the graves, and I guess the head gardener wasn't much of a hand at weedin'."
Later on someone over in the crowd spoke. "Pity Mist' Crit Madeira aint here to see all this. Haow he woulda taken to it. That son-in-law of his woulda jes adzackly suited Mist' Crit. Pity he had to die off sudden-like jes whend ev'thing wuz comin' araoun'." It was a woman's voice and it was all softened with pity. "Yass, oh yass," said a man next her gingerly.
Anyway, it was to raise the money to pay for our present, as far as it went and I want to tell you right now, Val, that you was sure the queen of the ball; everybody said you looked jest like a queen in a picture, and I never heard a word ag'inst your low-neck dress. It looked all right on you, don't you see? On me, for instance, it woulda been something fierce.
If we'd hadda bugle we coulda sounded taps, and the musical accompaniment woulda been complete. "Napoleon One come up and shake hands with me like I'd won the Medeye Militaire, and, before I could side-step, the widow had her arms round my neck and was kissin' me on both cheeks.
"And if they'd only come out flat in the beginning and admitted: 'Sure, it's a fight we know that a finish fight between women like you and women like us, I could have liked 'em for it. If they'd said: 'We want these things, so do you, and only men can buy 'em take 'em if you can, that woulda been all right with me. But did they? You know the answer.
And I'm real glad you took a hold and danced like you did, and never passed nobody up, like some woulda done. You'll be glad you did, now you know what it was for. Even danced with Polycarp Jenks and there ain't hardly any woman but what'll turn him down; I'll bet he tromped all over your toes, didn't he?" "Sometimes," Val admitted. "What about the surprise you were speaking of, Mrs. Hawley?"
"It woulda bin a fair trade.... Sonny, heah, ain't got place in the company anyhow " "Get!" Drew's weapon raised a fraction of an inch. Cambridge's protest thickened into a mumble and he went. When both men had disappeared, Drew turned to Boyd. "Put that away " he flicked a finger at the other's Colt "and mount up. We'll have to push to get back to the troop."
"We-ell, I hed a bronk go hog-wild 'n' pop three wires on a fence one time," Applehead explained modestly, "'n' he didn't cut hisself a-tall, skurcely. It's all accordin' t' how yuh hit it, I reckon. Anyway, I calc'lated it was wuth tryin', 'cause we shore woulda had our hands full if we'd a stopped at that fence, now I'm tellin' yuh!
The door was flung open violently, letting in men with unfinished sentences hot on their tongues. "Next time a Lorrigan dance comes off " "What I'd a done, woulda " "Fix them damn Lorrigans!" Detached phrases, no one man troubling to find a listener, the words came jumbled to the ears of Lance, who fancied himself in the bunk-house at home, with the boys just in from a ride somewhere.
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