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I believe I wuz a-moralizin' of her, and should have done good if I hadn't been broke in on. But all of a sudden Josiah Allen fairly bust into the house, all wrought up, and fearful excited. He had been a-talkin' with Deacon Henzy out by the gate, and I spoze Deacon Henzy had disseminated some new news to him. But anyway he wuz crazy with a wild and startlin' idee.
"How do you like your new neighbor, Deborah?" asked the Doctor. "Ah, Doctor, it's a fine big man he is, a danged fine man inside an' out. Denny and me are almighty proud, havin' him so close. He's that sociable, too, not at all like a priest. It's every blessed day since he's been here he's comin' over to Denny in the garden, and helpin' him with the things, a-talkin' away all the time.
"What are ye a-talkin' about, child? You sing? Where's your silk gown, your lace, your furbelows to come from?" "I don't know, but I think something might be contrived." Lavinia had Mrs. Houghton, who had been the leading lady in "The Orphan" and in "The Wits," in her mind. Mrs. Houghton was very friendly towards her and had no end of fine dresses.
Well, we got home to the Palace hotel in good season, I a-talkin' calmly and cheerfully, but sayin' in the inside, "'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humbly there is no place like home." My home wuz my pardner, the place where he wuz would look better than any palace.
"She's been goin' down for three months now; and she's got that on her that will carry her off before the year's out." "Pshaw, Aunt Roxy! how lugubriously you old nurses always talk! I hope now you haven't been filling Mara's head with any such notions people can be frightened into anything." "Sally Kittridge, don't be a-talkin' of what you don't know nothin' about!
"But I know the stage took some away this mornin': it seemed pretty well loaded up when I passed it." The woman drew a deep sigh. The act struck Mr. Bowers as a possible return of her former nervous weakness. Her attention must at once be distracted at any cost even conversation. "Perhaps," he began, with sudden and appalling lightness, "I'm a-talkin' to Mrs. McFadden?"
His eyes grew round and staring, his colour changed. "Is she a-goin'?" he said, with evident excitement. Jim's Louisa shook her head. She was rather a stupid girl, heavy and round-faced, but she had nursed her grandmother well. "No; she's asleep. Muster Drew's been here, and she dropped off while he was a-talkin' to her." Mr. Drew was the Congregational minister. "Did she send for him?"
The older woman screwed up her eyes, and shaded them with her hand. "Who's that with him?" she asked. "There's Bill." "Oh, he's nobody. He's a-talkin' to some one." "I don't know, mother. It's some one in a straw hat. Adam Wilson of the Quarry wears a straw hat." "Aye, of course, it's Adam sure enough. Well, I'm glad we're back home time enough to see him.
Them two men, a-lookin' considerable war-like, wuz a-talkin' over the past the deeds of Might. They didn't need wimmen so much there, and I didn't feel as if I cared a cent to have her there. When they git to talkin' over the deeds of Right, I'd want wimmen to be present. And she will be there.
He lifted the whisky bottle, and studied it thoughtfully. "You-all come dad burned near not bein' ary bit alive," returned the girl. "Yes?" said the man, inquiringly. "Yep; you sure did come mighty nigh hit. If your old John-boat had a-carried you-all on down ter Elbow Rock, 'stead of bein' ketched in the eddy here, you-all would sure 'nough been a-talkin' to the Devil by now."
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