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"You-all would a-drownded, sure, if I had," she retorted, somewhat mollified by the effect of her observation. "Which," he returned, "would have been so beautifully right and fitting that it evidently could not be." And with this cynical remark, his momentary bearing of self-respect was gone. "Are you-all a-meanin' ter say that you-all was a-wantin' ter drown?" "Something like that," he returned.
"I'm a-meanin' that you-all are plumb lovin' that there Betty Jo gal, that's what I'm a-meanin'! an' you-all sure ain't got ary right for ter go an' do sich a thing, nohow!" Brian tried to check her, but she silenced him with: "I won't neither hush! I can't! I tell you I'm a-goin' ter say my say if you-all kills me! I've just naturally got ter!
I think she wants me to come, don't you? It ain't like most law-suits, is it?" "She's a lovin' lady, an' I'm a-thinkin' they're a-meanin' to deal rightly by ye, Ralph." There was a pause. They were sitting on the bank in the shadow of the breaker, and the soft wind was bringing up to them the perfume of apple-blossoms from the orchard down by the road-side.
I can't make out ter read print much, nohow, like youuns kin; but I sure kin see what I see. "Judy! Judy!" Brian broke the stream of the excited girl's talk. "What in the world are you saying? What do you mean, child?" "You-all knows dad burned well what I'm a-meanin'!" she retorted, with increasing anger.
"Funny trial, wasn't it?" continued the ruminating Stockford. "Wasn't it though?" laughed the Major. "The porter's testimony: You see, he was for Tommy, of course, and on examination testified that the horseman struck Tommy first. And here Tommy broke in with: 'He's a-meanin' well, yer Honor, but he's lyin' to ye he's lyin' to ye.
"Money's always tight with me, squire," returned Hiram Walton, with a sigh. "Was you a-meanin' to pay anything down?" inquired the squire. "I don't see how I can." "That alters the case, you know. I might as well keep the cow, as to sell her without the money down." "I am willing to pay interest on the money." "Of course that's fair. Wall, neighbor, what do you say to goin' out to see the cow?"
"They air a-sayin' as how he air a-comin' up here mighty often; as how Easter Hicks, who hev never keered fer no man, air in love with this furriner from the settlemints." The girl reddened, in spite of her assumed indifference. "They- say, too, as how he air not in love with her, 'n' that somebody oughter warn Easter that he air not a-meanin' good to her.
"I don't nebber spec' Massa Douglas till I sees him." Strong grunted uncivilly, and went down the steps. She saw from the window that he met Elverson in front of the church. "Dey sure am a-meanin' trouble," she mumbled. The band had stopped playing; the last of the audience had straggled down the street. She opened the door and stood on the porch; the house seemed to suffocate her.
"And there we would be, all wore out with our job, and not pleasin' nobody, nor nothin', but makin' the hull caboodle mad as hens at us; and we a-not meanin' any hurt, none of the time, a-meanin' well towards Jonesville and rinosterhorses. Wouldn't we be in a situation to be pitied, Arvilly?"
She ain't called at our house yet." "Which 'ouse might you be a-meanin', Tummas?" queried Farmer Thorpe, with a slow grin "Your own or your measter's?" "When we speaks in the plural we means not one, but two," rejoined Bainton with dignity. "An' when I sez 'our' I means myself an' Passon, which Miss Vancourt ain't as yet left her card on Passon.
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