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Don't you suppose I understand how absolutely natural it was?... Everybody'd have thought just the same, in your place...." Carlisle had turned away from his translucent eye, finding it unbearable; she descended from the stair, took an irresolute step or two over the ruined floor of the once stately court.
"Everybody'd call us 'The Crimson Ramblers, or 'The Scarlet Runners, or something else horrid," tittered that precocious child Beechy. "It isn't red, it's grey," Terry managed hastily to interpolate; which settled one burning question, the first which had been settled or seemed likely to be settled at our present rate of progress.
"I had an uncle once, and his house caught afire—in the chimney too, and everybody'd gone to a prayer-meeting; they had now, true's you live." "Maybe your father's dead," condoled Sarah Rowe. "Or Winnie." "Or Tom." "Just think of it!" "What do you s'pose it is?" "If I were you, I guess I'd be frightened!" "Order!" said Miss Cardrew, in a loud voice.
She was so dead sick of eating her supper and then going up to her ugly room and reading and sewing all evening that it was a wonder she'd stayed good. She said it was easy enough for the men. They could smoke, and play pool, and go to a show, and talk to any one that looked good to 'em. But if she tried to amuse herself everybody'd say she was tough.
Country got too hot for him an' he had to pull his freight." "Rustler?" "You've said something. He's been suspected of it. But nobody's talkin' very loud about it." "Not safe?" "Not safe. He's lightning with a six. Got his nerve to come back here, though." "How's that?" "Ain't you heard about it? I thought everybody'd heard about that deal. Blanca sold Dakota the Star.
"She jilted the smartest man in town when she was young and she's kept on looking the part, as you might say, ever since. If she'd let herself run down, kind of seedy, everybody'd have said she was disappointed; but he hasn't ever married it's Judge Trent, you know and the way Martha holds her head up and wears gold eyeglasses sort of makes folks think he'd be glad to get her any time.
"That's the way with me, Henry," his partner assured him earnestly. "I never pay any notice to what she says. The way I figure it out about her, Henry, everybody'd be a good deal better off if nobody ever paid the least notice to anything she says. I never even notice what she says, myself." "I don't either," said Henry.
"It's a good thing," he said, as he went away amid a chorus of "Thank you." "Everybody'd ought to help all they can." "I'd like to make him a member of the club," growled Polly, "and turn one or two people I could mention out." "Dorcas doesn't seem so zealous as she did yesterday," remarked Catherine. "I hope she isn't angry, because we didn't fall in with her suggestions."
One by one the others went and looked on nervously as they worked; by the time they'd finished something, everybody'd seen it but Worth; and when it was finally put in his hands, all he seemed to notice was the one point of the time they'd set for payment. "It'll be quite some stunt to get the amount together by ten o'clock Monday," he said slowly. "There are securities to be converted "
"I don't know," said Helen, trembling; "I don't " "Everybody'd think you were crazy, child! I know I should, for one." And she added, coaxingly, "Let me tell you what Mr. Roberts said." "What, Auntie?" "He sent you in this message; he's a great person for doing generous things, when he takes it into his head. He told me to tell you that if you'd accept Mr.
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