Or else--Wasn't he near me, passing my door ivery day?
Oh, I'm ignorant and selfish.

But hadn't I got him near?
And wouldn't that word have lost him, sent him God knows where--to _you_ perhaps?
You--you'd had your chance, and squandered it like a fool.

I never had no chance.

I courted en, but he wouldn' look at me.

He'd have come to your whistle--once.