looked vacant at the mention of a country so far away as russia now they edged in and asked what he thought about the car in oil wells the comparative merits of young men born in and in the question of the future cost of and wasn t it true that american put it all over these they were glad to find that he agreed with them on every point as she heard announce we re perfectly willing to talk to any committee the men may choose but we re not going to stand for some outside in and telling us how we re going to run our plant remembered that elder now meekly receiving new ideas had said the same thing in the same words while sam was digging up from his memory a long and immensely detailed story of the crushing things he had said to a porter named george his knees and rocked and watched she wondered if he did not understand the of the smile with which she listened to s account of the good one he had on that improper ten times told tale of how she had forgotten to attend to because she was all up the box � which may be translated as eagerly playing the piano she was certain that saw through her when she pretended not to hear s invitation to join a game of she feared the comments he might make she was irritated by her fear she was equally irritated when the returned through main street to find that she was proud of sharing in s as people waved and leaned from a window she said to herself as though i cared whether i m seen with this fat and simultaneously everybody has noticed how much will and i are playing with mr the town was full of his stories his friendliness his memory for names his clothes his flies his generosity he had given a hundred dollars to father the priest and a hundred to the reverend mr the minister for work at the bon ton heard the tailor old certainly pulled a good one on this that always is shooting off his mouth he s supposed to of settled down since he got married but lord those fellows that think they know it all they never change well the red got the grand handed to him all right he had the nerve to breeze up to at s and he said he said to i ve always wanted to look at a man that was so useful that folks would pay him a million dollars for existing and gave him the once over and come right back have eh he says well he says i ve been looking for a man so useful sweeping floors that i could pay him four dollars a day want the job my friend ha ha ha i say you know how is well for once he didn t have a thing to say he tried to get fresh and tell what a rotten town this is and come right back at him if you don t like this country you better get out of it and go back to germany where you belong say maybe us fellows didn t give the horse laugh though i oh is the white haired boy in this all had borrowed elder s he stopped at the he at rocking with on the porch better come for a ride she wanted to him thanks so much but i m being maternal bring him along bring him along was out of the seat up the and the rest of her and were feeble main street she did not bring along was silent for a mile in words but he looked at her as though he meant her to know that he understood everything she thought she observed how deep was his chest lovely fields over there he said you really like them there s no profit in them he chuckled sister you can t get away with it i m you you consider me a big bluff well maybe i am but so are you my dear � and pretty enough so that i d try to make love to you if i weren t afraid you d slap me mr do you talk that way to your wife s friends and do you call them sister as a matter of fact i do and i make em like it score two i but his chuckle was not so and he was very attentive to the in a moment he was cautiously attacking that s a wonderful boy will great work country are doing the other day in washington i was talking to a big scientific a professor in medical school and he was saying that no one has ever sufficiently appreciated the general and the sympathy and help he gives folks these crack the young scientific fellows they re so and so wrapped up in their that they miss the human element except in the case of a few diseases that no respectable human being would waste his time having it s the old that keeps a community well mind and body and strikes me that will is one of the and headed country i ve ever met eh i m sure he is he s a servant of reality come again um yes all of that whatever that is say child you don t care a whole lot for if i m not mistaken there s where you re missing a big chance there s nothing to these cities believe me i know is a good town as they go you re lucky to be here i wish i could stay very well why don t you why � lord � can t get away fr you don t have to stay i do so i to it main street do you know that men 