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What way, Ben?

I ’d have to go to jail for five years and see if you ’d wait for me!

It ’s an awful thing for a mother to have a fool for a child.

(goes upstage with Nettie)

Well, I must say you made a nice mess of things!

(exits with Ella)

Well, I don’t care! I don’t see how anybody would expect me to be a mind reader!

Come, Orin—say good-by to your Uncle Ben.

What will I do that for?

Because I tell you to!

Yesterday you told me he was n’t worth speakin’ to!

Are you going to move, you stupid little idiot.

[She drags him out.

(as they go)

What did I say? You let me alone!

I was wonderin’, Ben, how you ’d feel about endorsing that note of mine.

You was?

Yes, I don’t know what I ’m going to do about it.