Gabie

"Gabie," she said gently, "I'll bet you haven't got a hundred dollars in the bank ----"

Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926

"Gabie," she said slowly, "you're the first man that's ever asked me to marry him."

Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926

"Gabie," she said gently, "I'll bet you haven't got a hundred dollars in the bank -- --"

Buttered Side Down 1911

"Gabie," she said slowly, "you're the first man that's ever asked me to marry him."

Buttered Side Down 1911

He brushed past toward the stairs, but David said, Wait a minute, Gabie.

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You see, Gabie, we're just twenty years late, both of us.

Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926

If I had been as wise at twenty as I am now, Gabie, I could have married any man I pleased.

Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926

Gabie took Effie's limp white hand in his, and stroked it gently.

Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926

You're fifty years old if you're a minute, Gabie, and if I ain't mistaken you'd have a pretty hard time of it getting ten thousand dollars 'insurance after the doctors got through with you.

Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926

There came back a reply that sent Gabie up before the violets were relieved of their first layer of tissue paper.

Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926