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Kept it on the quiet; and the gal, playing the part of a boy, has been fetchin' me supplies once in two months, an' takin' away the dust I winnowed. Pocket's played out now, but I reckons as how I've got plenty. 'Sides, I just don't like the way things is agoin' here. That spoutin' geyser that rises up inside the old mountain every once in a while acts like it meant to break loose.
"Calm yourself, elder! Calm yourself," spoke up Long Bill. "There ain't any occasion to get excited." "I'm not an elder; I'm a minister of the gospel," exploded West, in his most pompous tones. "I should like to know who you are and what all this means?" "Yes, parson, we understand who you are. We understand quite well, an' we're agoin' to tell you who we are. We're a band of al-tru-ists!
When he joined the major in the cornfield he said, with a touch of anger: "Well, you got the gun. Remember that. If he comes for me, I hain't got a blame thing!" "Shucks!" answered the major. "He ain't agoin' t' come for yeh." The two then began a wary journey through the corn. One by one the long aisles between the rows appeared.
Lander was obliged to speak without the advantage of noting the effect of her words upon her in her face. "It's like this: What am I agoin' to do for them relations of Mr. Landa's out in Michigan?" "I don't know. What relations?" "I told you about 'em: the only ones he's got: his half-sista's children. He neva saw 'em, and he neva wanted to; but they're his kin, and it was his money.
I sha'n't breathe a word about that Krant marriage to a single, solitary soul, and when I dies the secret will die with me. You're actin' square by my poor gal, sir, so I'm agoin' to act square by you. It ain't for me to cover with shame the name as you're goin' to give my Bell. 'Thank you! gasped Gabriel, whose emotion at this promise was so great that he could hardly speak, 'thank you!
"W'y do I think so?" repeated Gillie; "w'y, cos he's not content with havin' busted his boots an' his clo'se, an' all but busted hisself, in goin' to the top o' Mont Blang an' Monty Rosa, an' all the other Monty-thingumbobs about but he's agoin' off to day with that queer fish Laycrwa to hunt some where up above the clouds in among the stars, I fancy for shamwas."
"She guessed you wouldn't object to some cold chicken, and she's put a little of that on. Sha'n't cost ye any more," he hastened to assure them. "Now this is your room till the train comes, and there aint agoin' to anybody come in here. So you can make yourselves at home. And I hope you'll enjoy your supper as much as we did ourn the night we was married. There!
Sweater made no reply. 'I've kept the fire agoin' in hall the rooms has you told me, sir, resumed Crass after a pause. 'I think you'll find as the place is nice and dry, sir; the honly places as is a bit damp is the kitchen and scullery and the other rooms in the basement, sir, but of course that's nearly halways the case, sir, when the rooms is partly hunderground, sir.
Say Momma, Pap, Girlie" she ran, at a sort of sliding gallop across the oilcloth through the swinging door into the dining-room "will you listen to this? Sheila says she's not going to the dance!" "Well," said "Momma" audibly, "she'd better. I'm agoin' to put out the fires, and the house'll be about 12 below." Sylvester murmured, "Oh, we must change that." And Girlie said nothing.
Yes, by God excuse me, lady it's agoin' to be jest a dandy bridge until the river takes it out next spring, by God you'll have to excuse me again, lady." He seemed rather mournfully surprised by the frequent need for these apologies. "It was my raisin', lady," he explained. "My father was a Methody preacher. Yes'm, he sure was, by God, yes excuse me again, lady.
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