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(as she bites off a thread)

Expectin’ ain’t gettin’.

I don’t know what I ’ll do.

You had money out of her; so has Henry.

sable (shocked, to Nettie) You don’t mean to say your father ’s been borrowin’ from her.

[This to Nettie.

He ’s always borrowin’. Did n’t he borrow the hundred dollars grandma left me? I ’m not going to stand it much longer.

Henry ’s havin’ trouble with his business.

We ’re fools to put up with it. Everybody says so. We ought to contest the will.

Everybody says so but the lawyers; they won’t none of ’em touch the case without they get money in advance.

How much money? Did n’t your father find out, Nettie?

The least was five hundred dollars.

Can you see us raisin’ that?

If we was short, we might borrow it from Jane.