Three Lives: Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle LenaStein, Gertrude
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Three Lives: Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena
Stein, Gertrude
Working class women -- Fiction
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come home now with me Herman and get married, and I tell your mama she
better not say anything to you about how much it cost me to come all
the way to look for you--Hey Herman," said his father coaxing, "Hey,
you come home now and get married. All you got to do Herman is just to
stand up for an hour Herman, and then you don't never to have any more
bother to it--Hey Herman!--you come home with me to-morrow and get
married. Hey Herman."
Herman's married sister liked her brother Herman, and she had always
tried to help him, when there was anything she knew he wanted. She
liked it that he was so good and always did everything that their
father and their mother wanted, but still she wished it could be that
he could have more his own way, if there was anything he ever wanted.
But now she thought Herman with his girl was very funny. She wanted
that Herman should be married. She thought it would do him lots of
good to get married. She laughed at Herman when she heard the story.
Until his father came to find him, she did not know why it was Herman
had come just then to New York to see her. When she heard the story
she laughed a good deal at her brother Herman and teased him a good
deal about his running away, because he didn't want to have a girl to
be all the time around him.
Herman's married sister liked her brother Herman, and she did not want
him not to like to be with women. He was good, her brother Herman, and
it would surely do him good to get married. It would make him stand up
for himself stronger. Herman's sister always laughed at him and always
she would try to reassure him. "Such a nice man as my brother Herman
acting like as if he was afraid of women. Why the girls all like a man
like you Herman, if you didn't always run away when you saw them. It
do you good really Herman to get married, and then you got somebody
you can boss around when you want to. It do you good Herman to get
married, you see if you don't like it, when you really done it. You
go along home now with papa, Herman and get married to that Lena. You
don't know how nice you like it Herman when you try once how you can
do it. You just don't be afraid of nothing, Herman. You good enough
for any girl to marry, Herman. Any girl be glad to have a man like you
to be always with them Herman. You just go along home with papa and
try it what I say, Herman. Oh you so funny Herman, when you sit there,
and then run away and leave your girl behind you. I know she is crying
like anything Herman for to lose you. Don't be bad to her Herman.
You go along home with papa now and get married Herman. I'd be awful
ashamed Herman, to really have a brother didn't have spirit enough
to get married, when a girl is just dying for to have him. You always
like me to be with you Herman. I don't see why you say you don't
want a girl to be all the time around you. You always been good to me
Herman, and I know you always be good to that Lena, and you soon feel
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