[Wild Youth Volume Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookWild Youth Volume Complete CHAPTER XVIII 3/19
"You save my life daily.
That's why I'm glad you're getting a good home at last." "At Slow Down Ranch, with her that's to be its queen! Well, isn't that like her to be thinkin' of others? As a rule the rich is so busy lookin' afther what they've got that they're not worryin' about the poor; but she thought of me, didn't she ?" The Young Doctor nodded, and Patsy pursued his tale.
"Haven't I see her day in, day out, at Nolan Doyle's ranch, and don't I understan' why it is she's not set foot in Tralee since the ould one left it feet foremost, for his new seven-foot home, housed in a bit of wood-him that had had the run of the wurruld? She'll set no foot in Tralee at all anny time, if she can help it--that's the breed of her. "Well, it is as it is, and what's goin' to be will plaze every mother's son in Askatoon.
Giggles they called him! A bit of a girl they thought him! What's he turned out to be, though he's giggling still? Why, a man that's got the double cinch on Askatoon.
Even that fella Burlingame had nothin' to say ag'in' him; and when Burlingame hasn't anny mud to throw, then you must stop and look hard.
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