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Dodd to Dorothy; "I don't bear you no grudge, though I never was turned out of no place before. It's all in a lifetime, the same as marryin', and if I should ever marry again an' have a home of my own to invite you to, you an' your husband'll be welcome to come and stay with me as long as I've stayed with you, or longer, if you felt 'twas pleasant, an' I'd try to make it so."
I got like that in fighting for you. Don't you recognize me?" But people only laughed at him, and he had to go on. "I'll go to Ellen!" he thought, disheartened. "She'll speak up for me!" And while the thought was in his mind, he found himself in her parlor. "Sit down!" she said kindly. "My husband'll be here directly."
But the tide had run back while she was busy, and she couldn't crawl back to the sea over the bar, because on dry sand all her strength left her. 'And if I wait for the flood, she said, 'my husband'll half murder me; for he's jealous as fire. "My father listened, and, sure enough, he seemed to hear the children's voices callin' to her out beyond the water's edge.
He was just tickled to death, I guess he was, and he's going to make something dandy of it, so I stop long enough. I don't know what my husband'll say though. When I wrote him I was sick, he says: 'Come home and be sick at home' that's what he says."
I got like that in fighting for you. Don't you recognize me?" But people only laughed at him, and he had to go on. "I'll go to Ellen!" he thought, disheartened. "She'll speak up for me!" And while the thought was in his mind, he found himself in her parlor. "Sit down!" she said kindly. "My husband'll be here directly."
'The stable is a mile away, she replied smiling. 'Gran' good team ye druv us out with las' night, he said. 'Hed a chance t'look 'em over a leetle there at the door. The off hoss is puffed some for'ard but if yer husband'll put on a cold bandage ev'ry night it'll make them legs smoother n a hound's tooth. She thanked him and invited us to look in at the conservatory.
She was frightened almost to swooning at the thing that I told and my denunciation, and the deep answering stab of her own conscience. But her angry iron will rallied with an effort which must have been an agony; her face became human again, and, looking straight and defiantly at me, she said, yet with difficulty, "Ah! I'll see if my husband'll hev sech things said to me! That's all!"
"You villain!" she screamed excitably, rushing up to the mate. "Take me back; take me back!" "What's all this, Harry?" demanded the skipper sternly. "He he he asked me to go into the cab cabin," sobbed Mrs. Jansell, "and sent me to sleep, and too too took me away. My husband'll kill me; I know he will. Take me back."
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