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Betty, who had understanding, was not turned from the subject of her thoughts.,“You’re the only girl I’m afraid of in that line. Isn’t that so, Pretty?”,“No; I can’t recall what I said.”,“Miss Gordon here, made me a harnsome lace yoke fer an underwaist, an’ give it to me fer my birthday,” volunteered Mrs. Wopp.,“Oh, she’ll eat when she gets hungry, never fear.”,Thus interrogated, the boy who had caught but one fleeting word of the sentence, reddened, and shuffling his feet, said he’d “often rode a wild cayuse.”,“You are not a baby, my son; you’ll soon be a man, and it’s time you did your own thinking. Don’t be late for dinner.”,“Never mind, Mrs. Wopp,” said Nell pleasantly, “he is a perfect gentleman in manners and he wasn’t drinking or gambling when I saw him. May I have a little more of your beautifully cooked meat?”,“It’s only a chop left from yesterday,” he excused on his return.,“Salute your partner,” yelled Geordie Hodgekiss, the first caller-off.,With a supreme effort he straightened his arms just as the board reached the level of the sill, pushed it forward with all his might; and—it caught! Caught by an inch or less!,“And what’s the ‘chinning’ to be about?” she questioned, sitting on the bedside; “the fortune?”.