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And mebbe I'm that much of a habitooal lunatic, but thinking so, I calkilated you'ld know it without tellin'." With their eyes fixed upon her, Mrs. Tucker felt the quick blood rush to her cheeks, although she knew not why. But they were apparently satisfied with her ignorance, for Patterson resumed, yet more gloomily:
"You bet your pants I am, Andy.... An' so could you, poifectly well, if you'ld talk it up to 'em a little." "Oh, I wish to God I could. Not that I want to go home, now, but ...if I could get out of uniform." "I don't blame ye a bit, kid; well, next time, we'll know better.... Local Board Chairman's going to be my job." Andrews laughed. "If I wasn't a sucker...."
"But you'ld be leaving one of your own people in the place of it," Naggeneen answered, "and they'ld never know the differ. Or if they did, it would be no matter. A woman makes a great hullabaloo when her child looks sick and she thinks it's dying on her, but she doesn't care at all after a little. And then, it doesn't die, and she thinks it's her own child all the time, and there's no harm done.
Could you not make her look the other way while you'ld be taking it? Could you not put some charm on her so that she'ld let it go? Or was she praying all the time, so that you could do nothing with her? Or was she making those signs over it that none of us can stand?"
"Don't nobody get out," shouted the sergeant from the car ahead. "Hell! They keep you in this goddam car like you was a convict," muttered Chrisfield. "I'd like to get out and walk around Dijon." "O boy!" "I swear I'd make a bee line for a dairy lunch," said Judkins. "Hell of a fine dairy lunch you'll find among those goddam frogs. No, vin blank is all you'ld get in that goddam town."
"Then he saw some of the Good People talking together in a little group, and presently they came up to him, and one of them said: 'Lusmore, we've been thinking what will we do for you as a reward for mending our song, and we've decided to ask yourself what it is that you'ld rather we'ld give you. Think, now, what it is that you'ld rather have than anything else in the world.
Her father's willing, as long as we wait till I get a command before we splice." "You to marry Minnie!" The mate stiffened at the emphasis on the "you." The Captain was fighting for expression. "Why," he said, "why why, you'ld 'a' carried away that hawser if I hadn't sung out at ye." "Father," said the mate. "Mr. Davis'll give me a ship." "What ship?" demanded the Captain.
There's liss of it now; an' maybe I could manage it, iv you'ld only carry the spids, an' thim other things. We moight lave the knapsicks an' kyarthridge-box behind. What use ud they be in Kalifornya? They'll only lade to our detiction by the throops out there." "Don't ee be skeert 'bout thet, kimrade! Ef theer's troops in Californey, they'll hev theer hands full 'ithout troublin' us, I reeking.
A wind had come up, making the woods resound. A shower of yellow leaves dropped about them. "First you was a corporal, then you was a sergeant, and now you're a lootenant," said Chrisfield slowly. "You'ld better tell me where Colonel Evans is.... You must know.... He's up that road somewhere," said Anderson, struggling to get to his feet. Chrisfield walked away without answering.
And you'ld all know that and you'ld feel more for him, if you knew him the way I do." This was when Terence was six or seven years old. And Ellen often spoke in this way afterward. She saw Terence in her dreams, and he was a very different Terence from the one who made her so much trouble when she was awake, and yet he was partly the same.
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