Sometimes I think you an' Amabel would be a damned sight better off without me than with me, and I'm done for anyway, and it don't make much difference what I do next.' "'Jim Tenny, you jest quit talkin' in such a way as this,' says I, for I thought he meant to make away with himself, but that wa'n't what he meant.

Aggie Bemis had been windin' her net round him, and he wa'n't nothin' but a man, and all discouraged, and he gave in.
Any man would in his place.

He ain't to blame.

It's the tyrants that's over us all that's to blame." Eva's voice shrilled higher.
"Curse them!" she shrieked.

"Curse them all!--every rich man in this gold-ridden country!" "Eva Tenny, you're beside yourself," said Fanny, who was herself white to her lips, yet she viewed her sister indignantly, as one violent nature will view another when it is overborne and carried away by a kindred passion.
"Wonder if you'd be real calm in my place ?" said Eva; and as she spoke the dreadful impassibility of desperation returned upon her.
It was as if she suffered some chemical change before their eyes.
She became silent and seemed as if she would never speak again.
"You hadn't ought to talk so," said Fanny, weakly, she was so terrified.