I seemed t' be 'bout as welcome as usual," he added with an ugly grin.
"Meanin' that my girl don't want your company, and told you so ?" asked the other softly.
Wash answered with a scowl; "Sammy's gettin' too dad burned good fer me since Ollie's uncle took him in.

An' now, this here old man from nowhere has come, it's worse than ever.

She'll put a rope 'round our necks th' first thing you know." Jim's right hand slipped quietly inside his hickory shirt, where the button was missing, as he drawled, "My girl always was too good for some folks.

And it's about time you was a findin' it out.
She can't help it.

She was born that way.