"You gonna take me to jail?" asked the boy, bending over
the sink.
"Not with that face, I
would not take you nowhere," said the woman. "Here I am trying to get
home to cook me a bite to eat and you snatch my pocketbook! Maybe, you ain’t
been to your supper either, late as it be. Have you?"
"There’s nobody home at
my house," said the boy.
"Then we’ll eat,"
said the woman, "I believe you’re hungry—or been hungry—to try to snatch
my pocketbook."
"I wanted a pair of blue suede shoes," said the boy.
"Well, you didn’t have to
snatch my pocketbook to get some suede shoes," said Mrs. Luella Bates
Washington Jones. "You could of asked me."
"M’am?"
The water dripping from his face, the boy looked at her. There was a long
pause. A very long pause. After he had dried his face and not knowing what else
to do dried it again, the boy turned around, wondering what next. The door was
open. He could make a dash for it down the hall. He could run, run, run, run,
run!
The woman was sitting on the
day-bed. After a while she said, "I were young once and I wanted things I
could not get."
There was another long pause.
The boy’s mouth opened. Then he frowned,
but not knowing he frowned.
The woman said, "Um-hum!
You thought I was going to say but, didn’t you? You thought I was going to say,
but I didn’t snatch people’s pocketbooks. Well, I wasn’t going to say
that." Pause. Silence. "I have done things, too, which I would not
tell you, son—neither tell God, if he didn’t already know. So you set down
while I fix us something to eat. You might run that comb through your hair so
you will look presentable."
Davamını oxu
Davamını oxu
1. jail
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həbs
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2. suede
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zamşa(dəri material)
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3. dripping
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damcılayan
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4. to frown
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qaşlarını çatmaq
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