Instead of
that, he stood about, listening.
"I haven't even seen such people," murmured the landlady in reply to
a whispered question from Grandma Padgett. "There was a young man
came in to ask if we had more room, but I didn't like his looks and
told him no, we had no more. Court-times we can fill our house if we
want to. But I'm always particular. We don't take shows at all. The
shows that come through here are often rough. There was a magic-lantern
man we let put up with us. But circuses and such things can go to
the regular tavern, says I. And if the regular tavern can't accommodate
them, it's only twenty mile to Injunop'lis."
"I was afraid they might have got into the house," said Grandma
Padgett. "And I wouldn't know what to do. I couldn't give her up to
them again, when the bare sight throws her into spasms, unless I was
made to do it."
"You couldn't prove any right to her," observed the lawyer.
"No, I couldn't," replied Grandma Padgett, expressing some injury in
her tone. "But on that account ought I to let her go to them that
would mistreat her?"
"She may be their child," said the lawyer. "People have been known
to maltreat their children before.
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