I haven't got a place on earth to call my home.
"And it's something a woman wants sometimes," she added after a while, dabbing her wet handkerchief against her eyes.

"That's the Gawd's truth." Wid approached more closely the weeping girl, touching her arm with a brown hand now gentle as a child's.
"Now look-a-here," said he.

"I can't stand to hear you go on that way.
Do you reckon you was ever any lonesomer fer a home than what I am, living out here all my life ?" "And now I'm worse off than I ever was before," he went on frowningly.
"I didn't know nothing before you come out here.

But now I do.

I can't think of your going back, Annie." She did not answer him, but went on weeping.
"What's more, I ain't _a-going_ to stand it," he added savagely.