It was the best
He could think of then; but when it turned out wrong on His hands
He made you and me to fight the croup for him. You bet He didn't
make us for nothing; and He wouldn't have made us at all if He
could have done His work without us. By Gum, that must be what
we're for! He'd never have made us to be rotten drunken
blackguards like me, and good-for-nothing rips like Feemy. He
made me because He had a job for me. He let me run loose til the
job was ready; and then I had to come along and do it, hanging or
no hanging. And I tell you it didn't feel rotten: it felt bully,
just bully. Anyhow, I got the rotten feel off me for a minute of
my life; and I'll go through fire to get it off me again. Look
here! which of you will marry Feemy Evans?
THE BOYS [uproariously] Who speaks first? Who'll marry Feemy?
Come along, Jack. Nows your chance, Peter. Pass along a husband
for Feemy. Oh my! Feemy!
FEEMY [shortly] Keep your tongue off me, will you?
BLANCO. Feemy was a rose of the broad path, wasn't she? You all
thought her the champion bad woman of this district. Well, she's
a failure as a bad woman; and I'm a failure as a bad man. So let
Brother Daniels marry us to keep all the rottenness in the
family. What do you say, Feemy?
FEEMY. Thank you; but when I marry I'll marry a man that could do
a decent action without surprising himself out of his senses.
Youre like a child with a new toy: you and your bit of human
kindness!
THE WOMAN.
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