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Ef I was as young as he, an' had his chance, I would make myself worthy o' you, or die. But it is too late. Old Joe Chillis may starve his heart, as he has many a time starved his body in the desert. But I did love you so! O, my sweet White Rose, I did love you so! always, from the first time I saw you." "What is that you say?" said Mrs. Smiley, in a shocked voice.
Smiley had hastily put some provisions into a tin bucket, with a cover, and some things for Willie into another, and stood holding them, ready to be stowed away. "You will have to take the tiller," said Chillis, placing the buckets safely in the boat. "I meant to take an oar," said she. "If you know how to steer, it will be better for me to pull alone.
I did not see Willie at home; is he gone away?" he asked, to cover a sudden embarrassing consciousness. "I let him go home with Mr. Chillis, last evening, but I expect him home to-night." "Poor old Joe! He takes a great deal of comfort with the boy. And no wonder! he is a charming child, worthy such parentage," glancing at his companion's face. "I am glad when anything of mine gives Mr.
I am nothin', and you are everything. I want you to remember that, and do everything for your own happiness without wastin' a thought on me. I am content to keep my distance, ef I only see you happy and well off. Do you understand me?" Mrs. Smiley looked up with a suffused face. "Mr. Chillis," she answered, "you make me ashamed of myself and my selfishness.
While here, a fierce-looking, black-whiskered man, who, I afterwards learned, was Chillis, the commissary of the prison, came in, and said: "Bridge burners, are they! They ought to be hung, every man of them; and so ought every man that does anything against the Confederacy." Had he said for, I would have agreed with him heartily. Soon the guide returned, and ordered us to be conducted up stairs.
Joe Chillis brought her things down to the landing, and had them sent over to Astoria, where she decided to stay; and afterward she sold the farm and bought a small house in town, where, after two or three months, she opened a school for young children.
Well, this isn't pleasant, noways," said Chillis, as the house, freed with a final crash from impediments, swayed about unsteadily, impelled by wind and water. "I was sayin', a bit ago, that we could not git to the landin', at present.
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