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"How long you been showin' in this town, anyhow?" "About a year," Douglas answered, with something of a sigh. "A year!" she gasped. "In a burg like this? You must have an awful lot of laughs in your act to keep 'em a-comin' that long." She was wise in the ways of professional success. "Not many, I'm afraid."
He swept his hand around the emptiness of the town as Morgan drew near, giving voice to his contemplation. "Look at it not a dime been spent around this square this morning! I ain't sold but one box of pills in two days! If it wasn't for the little trade in t'backer and cigars of a night when the cowboys come in, I'd have to lock up and leave. I will anyhow I can see it a-comin'."
Thirty-one years. Multiply it for yourself. Three thousan', seven hundred an' eighty-two miles all for the sake of two hundred feet of pipe. Wouldn't that jar you?" "Oh, I ain't done yet. They's a bath-tub an' stationary tubs a-comin' soon as I can see my way. An', say, Saxon, you know that little clear flat just where Wild Water runs into Sonoma. They's all of an acre of it. An' it's mine!
"Well, hows'ever that may be, there he was alongside o' the driver. But what staggers of me is, that there wa'n't no Lord Vincent nowhere to be seen! He was 'mong the missin'. And that was the rummest go as ever was. A new bride a-comin' home to her 'pa without no bridegroom. And so I jest axed Mr. Frisbie, Esquire, and he telled me how his lordship missed the trail. What trail!
I'd serve him just like that there 'Pollyon in the book. Or else I'd put rat p'ison in his beer, and my! wouldn't it be a game to see the tet'nus a-comin' on 'im, and " "Be quiet," said Reginald; "I won't allow you to talk like that. It's as bad as the Tim Tigerskin days, Love, and we've both done with them." "You're right there!" said the boy, pulling his Pilgrim's Progress from his pocket.
Annie and Parker applauded his unexpected steps, and the children began to shriek in delight. "Now we has it!" exclaimed Sam, removing the instrument from between his lips, and panting from his exertions. "Now we skates down de floor. Now, turn again and back-along. I's a-comin', child'en I's a-comin'. See me dance Jim Crow! Here I comes and dere I goes! Now, de pigeon-wing "
Steve pointed to them. "Rickolect whut I tol' you about hell a-comin' about that terbaccer?" Jason nodded. "Well, hit's come." His tone was ominous, personal, and disturbed the boy. "Look here, Steve," he said earnestly, "haven't you had enough now? Ain't you goin' to settle down and behave yourself?" The man's face took on the snarl of a vicious dog. "No, by God! I hain't.
I will pass over the two boys' indignant anger, which wuz jest the same as mine, only stronger, as much stronger as man's strength is stronger than a woman's. Thomas J. had been successful in gittin' the young chap; he wuz a-comin' when he wuz wanted. Thomas J. wuzn't goin' to wait till the last minute before he engaged him; our son is a wonderful good business man wonderful.
Tess turned and faced the woman when they were alone. "I air a-comin' again," she said slyly, "and I ain't one what tells that ye slides from the house every night to the lake with Deacon Hall's coachman, I ain't. I has a tongue in my head, I has, but it ain't a-waggin' 'bout no coachman and yerself." Tess saw instantly that her point was gained.
I had fancied I had reached the lowest depths of misfortune when I became a ruined diamond-merchant, but this is a profounder deep." "Here's the doctor a-comin' down-stairs, sir," said an elderly female, protruding her head from the back shop, and speaking in a stage-whisper. "Very well, Mrs Murridge, let him come," said Mr Blurt recklessly.
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