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This young lady, now, that come up with him last night, she said it was 'a dear old place an' she loved it a'ready. Them's her very words!" "Do tell!" "That's c'rrect, an' as I said before, when you're dealin' with educated folks, you're swimmin' in deep water with the shore clean out o' sight. Education was what ailed him." By a careless nod Mr.
I don't know notes; I just sing by random." "Where's Doc, anyhow?" suddenly inquired Amanda, for the doctor's place at the table was vacant. "He was fetched away. Mary Holzapple's mister come fur him!" Mr. Wackernagel explained, with a meaning nod. "I say!" cried Mrs. Wackernagel. "So soon a'ready! And last week it was Sue Hess! Doc's always gettin' fetched! Nothin' but babies and babies!"
He stopped in his dressing to say, "We've struck a great boarding place, hey?" "Looks like it." "I begin t' cotton to the old lady a'ready. Good 'eal like mother used t' be 'fore she broke down. Didn't the old lady have a time of it raisin' me? Phewee! Patient! Job wasn't a patchin'. But the test is goin' t' come on the biscuit; if her biscuit comes up t' mother's I'm hern till death."
De grease begins to siss in my face a'ready," said Zeb, as he joined them. The fugitives retreated to the lower story, and Leland led the way to a door which opened upon the kitchen, at the end of the house. His hope was that from this they might have a chance of escaping to the wood, but a short distance off, ere they were discovered.
Amos works that hard." "Poof," said Aunt Rebecca, "I ain't heard tell yet of any man workin' himself to death! It wouldn't hurt Philip to be a farmer. The trouble is it don't sound tony enough for the young ones these days. Lawyer what does he want to be a lawyer for? I heard a'ready that they are all liars. You're by far too easy!" "Oh, Aunt Rebecca," said Amanda, "not all lawyers are liars.
That's what," he added, unconsciously speaking aloud. Abe's lids slowly lifted. He rubbed his eyes and yawned. He turned his head on his hard, blue gingham-covered pillow, and stared sleepily at the other. "Yew been noddin', Sam'l? Ain't gittin' sleepy a'ready, are yer?" He glanced at the clock. "Why, it's only half past nine. Say, what's the matter with me an' yew goin' west ter meet No. 5?
"Better late than never!" said the Colonel, "let me heft them spoons." Mrs. Sprowle came down into her chair again as if all her bones had been bewitched out of her. "I'm pretty nigh beat out a'ready," said she, "before any of the folks has come." They sat silent awhile, waiting for the first arrival. How nervous they got! and how their senses were sharpened!
She had thought that of course Tom had deserted long ago, and she wondered at seeing him place himself in her power again in this intrepid way. He said: "Mayn't I go and play now, aunt?" "What, a'ready? How much have you done?" "It's all done, aunt." "Tom, don't lie to me I can't bear it." "I ain't, aunt; it IS all done." Aunt Polly placed small trust in such evidence.
After that Sunday night you left me set up with you, I never conceited you was promised a'ready to somebody else and you even left me set with my feet on your chair-rounds!" The doctor's tone was a bit injured.
I haven't got any more use for the concern " He gulped, and stopped; they knew what he was thinking of, and they looked down in pity. He went on: "I won't put any more money in it; but what I've put in a'ready can stay; and you can pay me four per cent." He got upon his feet; and March and Fulkerson stood, too. "Well, I call that pretty white," said Fulkerson.
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