Don't you like her ?--Lucile ?" "An' what iv it ?" he challenged, brazenly.
"Just what I asked,--what of it ?" "Thin I'll tell ye in plain words from a man old enough to be yer father.

'Tis undacent, damnably undacent, for a man to kape company with a good young girl--" "Thank you," she laughed, dropping a courtesy.

Then she added, half in bitterness, "There have been others who--" "Name me the man!" he cried hotly.
"There, there, go on.

You were saying ?" "That it's a crying shame for a man to kape company with--with you, an' at the same time be chake by jowl with a woman iv her stamp." "And why ?" "To come drippin' from the muck to dirty yer claneness! An' ye can ask why ?" "But wait, Matt, wait a moment.

Granting your premises--" "Little I know iv primises," he growled.