"Hot cakes! Well, I guess. You'd have thought there was a mill-end sale on postage stamps."
"And if you don't look all tired out! If you just don't!"
The ready tears swam in her voice.
"It's—it's been awful—me away from her all day like this. But, anyways, I got news for her when I go home to-night about her five weeks' benefit money. Old Criggs was grand. He's going to send the committee to see her. Anyways, that's some good news for her."
"I just can't get her out of my mind, neither. Seems like I—I just can see her poor blind face all the time."
"M-me, too."
"They say the girls up in the ribbons been crying all day. She was no love-bird, but they say she wasn't bad underneath."
"God knows she—she wasn't."
"That's the way with some folks; they're hard on top, but everybody knows hard-shell crabs have got sweeter meat than soft."
"Nobody knows that she was a rough diamond better than me. I got sore at her sometimes, but I—I know she was always there when I—I needed her, alrighty."