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"How could I tell you were such a mighty friend of Dan's? And besides, if ever I was Virginie des Violets, I'm Faith Devereux now, and Dan'll resent any one's speaking so about his wife!" And she stood up, the tears sparkling like diamonds in her flashing dark eyes, her cheeks red, and her little fist clenched. "That's the right spirit, Faith," says I, "and I'm glad to see you show it.
Jack's give him a room over the saloon 'til his maw comes back." "I reckon I know it. I made him! You jus' wait 'til December when Dan'll be fourteen. Once he gits to work he won't have to take nothin' offen nobody!" School as well as home took on a new interest under Mrs. Purdy's influence. Shoes and textbooks appeared almost miraculously, and reports assumed a new and exciting significance.
Dan's had a raise. He's foreman of the gang now. And I stepped 'round to tell ye the good news and that Dan'll be a-workin' tonight with an extry shift and'll not be comin' home to dinner, worse luck for him!" sniffing appreciatively at the pleasant odor from the stove. "A raise? My Dan a foreman?" Moira Lynch caught her hands together. "It's the good luck!
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