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And then, bay Jove, he happened to mention that they were rathah stumped for shingles, don't-che-naow, and, funny thing, there chawnced to be behind my stable a few bunches, and I was awfully glad to tu'n them ovah, and this eh pehson most extraordinary chap I assuah you got 'em down somehow." "Who was it inquired?" asked Cameron. "Don't naow him in the least.
Can't I persuade you to aw take a spin some day? Where's Mrs. Whitney?" "Gone to the country; she she's ill." "Awful tabby, wa'n't she?" "Oh, no; I like her very much, but she was in a hurry to leave town." "So Aunt Terry said. Awf'ly down on you, Aunt Terry is," he drawled with even more than his usual tactlessness, "but I stand up for you, I assuah you, Miss Winship.
Mitchell covered it promptly. Loring drew out a handful of bills. "Here you are. Any one else want any of this?" he inquired captiously. Archibald shook his head and laughed. Wyatt screwed his monocle into his eye, regarded both sides of the coin attentively, and laid it down. "Quite bad, I assuah you," he said. "I should pwonounce it about the wohst specimen extahnt."
"I beg your pardon, but is that not a bad dollar?" he said. "Oh, no mattah no consequence at all, I assuah you," said Wyatt liberally. He would have pocketed the piece, but Loring, who had paid it, gave him another, and flung the slighted coin over to Mitchell. "If you're so set on this dollar being bad," he said angrily, "I'll bet you what you dare it's not bad." "Done with you for twenty!"
Nothing else, I assuah you, gentlemen, could fo'ce me to call attention to a mattah so puahly pussonal as a diffe'nce between gentlemen in theiah standahds of inebriety! Nothing else, believe me!" By the G. B. T. the Captain meant the Grain Belt Trust Company, and anything which affected its solvency or welfare was, as he said, a matter of serious concern for all of us.
"I want to borrow a man," Steve began mildly. Here he was interrupted. The ante-room door opened. One entered no, floated in faultlessly arrayed, with an air at once languid and gloomy. "Wyatt!" said Atwood, cordially. "Man! You're good for sore eyes! What fair wind blows you here?" Wyatt sank into a chair. "Doldwums. Nothing at all," he said listlessly. "Mewest chawnce, I assuah you.
"Now, suh, would you consider a fox-trot, an' single-foot, an' rack, an' pace, an' amble, distinctions not worth distinguishin'? I assuah you, gentlemen, there was a time befo' I was afflicted in my hip, if you'll pardon me, Miss Tuck, when I was quite celebrated in Paduky for all those gaits; an in my opinion the Deacon's co'rect when he says that a ho'se of any position in society gets his gaits by his haid, an' not by his, ah, limbs, Miss Tuck.
I wished it was wicked, of course I wished I were his widow; but I was determined not to repeat such folly as I had shown about the Earl. "Very jolly," I repeated, "but you don't know what a coward I am; I believe I'd be afraid." "Aw, no, Miss Winship," he remonstrated; "afraid of the mobe? Aw, no; not with me. I'll teach you how to run it, I do assuah you; awf'ly jolly that would be."
He's temptin' his customers with silver-set turquoise necklaces, and abalone cuff links, and moonstone sets, and such; doin' it dainty and airy, and incidentally displayin' a job of manicurin' that's the last word in fingernail decoration. Such smooth, highbrow conversation goes with it too! "Oh, yes, Madam," I overhears him gurgle. "Quite so, I assuah you.
"Now, suh, would you consider a fox-trot, an' single-foot, an' rack, an' pace, an' amble, distinctions not worth distinguishin'? I assuah you, gentlemen, there was a time befo' I was afflicted in my hip, if you'll pardon me, Miss Tuck, when I was quite celebrated in Paduky for all those gaits; an in my opinion the Deacon's co'rect when he says that a ho'se of any position in society gets his gaits by his haid, an' not by his, ah, limbs, Miss Tuck.
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