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Description:Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI MR. HORTON CAPITULATES I Had not been very polite to Mr. Horton before that morning, but when he made the abrupt declaration that he had made a fool of himself long enough, I was civil enough to refrain from contradicting him. "I ain't had no breakfast," he went on, presently, glancing at his torn dress. "I'm a pretty tough-looking subject, too, I reckon." Again I did not dispute the statement. Looking away from me, he took a step or two toward the spot where his horse awaited him, then turned resolutely back again. "Say, I'm going to own up while I've got courage to do it!" he exclaimed, speaking rapidly and with suppressed excitement: "I ain't treated you and your folks right, Miss Leslie; I've knowed it all along; but, you see, I'd got my mind set on that bit of land that your father took up--not that I needed it, or anything of that kind--a claim would 'a' been more bother than good to me as a general thing; but I'd said to folks that I meant to have it and I'd managed to get up a kind of ugly pride in showing folks that what I said went, whether or no. "My wife--she's a good woman--I do'no what she'd do if she was to know all that I've done or tried to do, but I reckon you know pretty well, Miss Leslie. Well, you've known Jake Horton as he was. I'm going to give you all a 'chance to know him as he is now. When a man undertakes to do a bit of spite work like this; work that he's no call to feel proud of, and knows that so well that he tries to do it alone and in the dark, and is held back from making a consummate idiot of himself, and a criminal, too, like enough, by a dog and a young girl, it's time to call a halt. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to call a halt and travel a new trail from this on. I don't ask you to believe anythi...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim: A Story for Girls. To get started finding Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim: A Story for Girls, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI MR. HORTON CAPITULATES I Had not been very polite to Mr. Horton before that morning, but when he made the abrupt declaration that he had made a fool of himself long enough, I was civil enough to refrain from contradicting him. "I ain't had no breakfast," he went on, presently, glancing at his torn dress. "I'm a pretty tough-looking subject, too, I reckon." Again I did not dispute the statement. Looking away from me, he took a step or two toward the spot where his horse awaited him, then turned resolutely back again. "Say, I'm going to own up while I've got courage to do it!" he exclaimed, speaking rapidly and with suppressed excitement: "I ain't treated you and your folks right, Miss Leslie; I've knowed it all along; but, you see, I'd got my mind set on that bit of land that your father took up--not that I needed it, or anything of that kind--a claim would 'a' been more bother than good to me as a general thing; but I'd said to folks that I meant to have it and I'd managed to get up a kind of ugly pride in showing folks that what I said went, whether or no. "My wife--she's a good woman--I do'no what she'd do if she was to know all that I've done or tried to do, but I reckon you know pretty well, Miss Leslie. Well, you've known Jake Horton as he was. I'm going to give you all a 'chance to know him as he is now. When a man undertakes to do a bit of spite work like this; work that he's no call to feel proud of, and knows that so well that he tries to do it alone and in the dark, and is held back from making a consummate idiot of himself, and a criminal, too, like enough, by a dog and a young girl, it's time to call a halt. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to call a halt and travel a new trail from this on. I don't ask you to believe anythi...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim: A Story for Girls. To get started finding Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim: A Story for Girls, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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