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Wall, I didn't say no more: and I got him as good a supper as the house afforded, and kep' still as death on politics; fur I could not help havin' some hopes that he might get sick of the idee of public life. And I kep' him down close all that evenin' to religion and the weather. But, alas! my hopes wus doomed to fade away.
And I told Josiah, that how Cicely could marry a man with such a chin wus a mystery to me. And Josiah said, "What is the matter with his chin?" And I says, "Why, it jest sets right back from his mouth: he hain't got no chin at all hardly," says I. "The place where his chin ort to be is nothin' but a holler place all filled up with irresolution and weakness.
Cicely see it, see that dubersome look, though I tried to turn it off by kissin' him jest as hearty as I could after I had took the little black-robed figure of his mother, and hugged her close to my heart, and kissed her time and time agin. She always dressed in the deepest of mournin', and always would. I knew that. Wall, we wus awful glad to see Cicely.
No: it wus the old garret of the mansion, the low old garret, where she sot, our Lady Washington, in her widowed dignity, with no other fire only the light of deathless love that lights palace or hovel, sot there in the window, because she could look out from it upon the tomb of her mighty dead.
But the law gin it to him; and he was only availin' himself of the glorious liberty of our free republic, and doin' as he was a mind to. And it was s'posed that that very hip-money was what made the match. For, before she wus fairly out of splints, he got a divorce from her. And by the help of that money, and the Whisky Ring, he got her two little children away from her.
"We'll git the rest of the day off," remarked Casey, complacently. "Shane, yez are dom' quiet betoimes. An' Mac, I shure showed yez up to-day." "Ye DID not," retorted McDermott. "I kilt jist twinty-nine Sooz!" "Jist thorty wus moine. An', Mac, as they wus only about fifthy of thim, yez must be a liar." The train drew on toward Medicine Bow. Firing ceased.
I'm doin' her work every day, an' her dressin' an' pore little Sunday fixin's is all still a-hangin' on the wall. She wus the only gal " Washburn came back with the change.
"Wus than a fool, for I knowed it made me savage as a bear; and yet I let it get the mastery of me. But it's the last, mother; I took the bottle to the farm last night, and they're going to let me have the value of it in milk for the little 'un, and please God she gets well again, it's no more whisky I'll touch."
Among those hostiles?" "Him!" Hughes laughed scornfully. "Why, he's hand in glove with the whole bunch. He's raided with 'em, decked out in feathers an' war-paint." The Sergeant thought rapidly and leaped to a sudden conclusion. "And you were trying to kill him when you shot us up?" "Thet wus the idea, stranger; if I got a friend o' yourn, I 'm powerful sorry."
The overseer called to him from the stable, but the Major dropped his eyes to the scrawl in his hand, and when Miss Lucy came out he silently handed it to her. "I reckon you know what folks is a-sayin' about me. I tol' you myself. But I didn't know hit wus any harm, and anyways hit ain't my fault, I reckon, an' I don't see how folks can blame me. But I don' want nobody who don' want me.
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