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And she kinder stomped her feet and sez, "I fling off the dust I have gethered here, at your feet." Now my floor wuz clean and looked like yeller glass, almost, it wuz so shinin' and spotless, and I resented the idee of her sayin' that she collected dust off from it. But I didn't say nothin' back. She had the bag of poetry on her arm, and I didn't feel like addin' any more to her troubles.
No time in the long period of fiery moments and sudden shocks had Jane Withersteen ever beheld Lassiter as calm and serene and cool as then. "Jane had gloom enough without my addin' to it by shootin' up the village," he said. As strange as Lassiter's coolness was Venters's curious, intent scrutiny of them both, and under it Jane felt a flaming tide wave from bosom to temples.
And wimmen now, when wuz there ever a woman who could resist a good bargain? Her upper beauro draws may be a runnin' over with laces and ribbons, but let her see a great bargain sold for nothin' almost, and where is the female woman that can resist addin' to that already too filled up beauro draw.
Ye're only addin' to your troubles, not takin' away from them and she'll not thank ye for that later on." He stopped, rather astonished that he should have been drawn into an argument. His contempt for this man was so great that he could scarcely look at him, but his duty and his need was to get Aileen back. Cowperwood looked at him as one who gives serious attention to another.
It ain't addin' a heap to the morals of the outfit for the men to know a man can rustle cattle that promiscuous an' the boss not battin' an eyewinker. This is the fourth time he's been caught with the goods to say nothin' of the times he's done it without nobody gittin' wise an' the boys is beginnin' to ask questions, bein' a heap puzzled because somethin' don't happen to Joe."
I used to tell him she'd a' be'n hung for a witch if she'd lived in them old Salem days. He always used to be tellin' what everything was the sign of, when we was first married, till I laughed him out of it. It made me kind of notional. There's too much now we can't make sense of without addin' to it out o' our own heads." Mrs. Jake and Mrs.
At last accounts he had about two hundred on his hoss and sleigh, and was still addin'. Now he makes every hoss on the street run away. The men wish they'd let him alone in the first place. He'll prob'ly want your engine-bell when he sees it to-morrow." Another cackle from the crowd. Parker left without answering, and went to his dingy little room in the tavern.
Oncle Jazon was unusually talkative; he may have had a deep draught of liquor; at all events Beverley had little room for a word. "Well, bein' as it's twixt us, as is bosom frien's," the old fellow presently said, "I'll jes' show ye somepin poorty." He pricked the wick of a lamp and took down his bunch of scalps. "I hev been a addin' one more to keep company o' mine an' the tothers."
There was a vacant space, of no inconsiderable dimensions, left in the decanter. Mr. Bishopriggs gravely filled it up from the water-bottle. "Eh! it's joost addin' ten years to the age o' the wine. The turtle-doves will be nane the waur and I mysel' am a glass o' sherry the better. Praise Providence for a' its maircies!"
Oh, I wuz goin' to have a good dinner, there hain't a doubt of that! Oh, and I wuz goin' to have some delicious soup too, to start off the dinner with! Wall, if you'll believe it, jest as I wuz a-finishin' my dressin', addin' the last ingregient to it, and my mind wuz all on a strain to have it jest right All of a sudden Josiah Allen rushed in all out of breath, and hollered to me for a rope.
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