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"Shame me? Nonsense! Your dress is all right, and who is going to see your shoes? Besides, I've just set my heart on it. I want to take you up to my room and show you the pictures of my father and mother and home and the church where I was christened, and everything." Mom Wallis looked at her with wistful eyes, but still shook her head. "Oh, I'd like to mighty well. It's good of you to ast me.
"I didn' ast you fer no leave to tell her, an' I don't ast you fer nothin' naow. But she had to know. I hearn Unc' Bernique tellin' you abaout that Grierson letter. I hearn you read the letter. I hearn you an' Unc' Bernique swear. Then I swore, too. Then I went an' told her. And then she saw her father, an' she leffen it to her father to make things right, an' he's made things right.
"Why don't you marry her?" asked Franklin calmly. Sam gasped. "I I that's it, that's just it! I can't ast her!" he said, with despair and conviction in his voice. "I've tried, and I can't say a word to her about it, nothin' more than mebbe to ast her to pass me the butter. She don't seem to understand." "Well, what do you expect? Do you think she is going to ask you about it herself?"
"I might offer my services in that capacity myself," observed Owen, reservedly. "I'm sure I don't know," returned Mrs. Butler, smiling, and at the same time chewing a lusty mouthful. "You'll have to ast 'em, my sons." Aileen still persisted. She did not want to go. It was too sudden. It was this. It was that. Just then old Butler came in and took his seat at the head of the table.
"But we don't wait. 'Sweet Caps, I says to him as we hikes round the first turn in the road, 'this district ain't making no pronounced hit with me. Every time you ast 'em for bread they give you a dog. The next time, I says, anybody offers me a canine, I'm going to take him, I says. 'If he can eat me any faster than I can eat him, I says, 'he'll have to work fast.
So far as I know, they never did talk much, only that one time when I heard 'em. But, as to something going on why, yes, it's been going on for quite a little while. And I've knew it; I've knew I ought to go and tell you. And all the time I couldn't, because I loved her and she ast me not to tell." "Did she ever tell you anything? Do you think she cared anyway for him?
Tel finally, one time he was out here all by hisself, 'long about dusk, come out here where I was feedin', and ast me, all at onc't, and in a straight-for'ard way, ef he couldn't marry Annie; and, some-way-another, blame ef it didn't make me as happy as him when I told him yes! You see that thing proved, pine-blank, 'at he wasn't a-fishin' round fer Marthy.
But if you're him, and even if you've got back only a few hours before it's up, I'm willing, and I think dad'll be, for you to have the claim. But you must pay for what we've done on it." "I never ast y' t' do anything on it." "That's so. But the law says " "Aw, th' law be damned! I don't pay a cent!" "Then I know dad won't leave." "Oh, you do." "Yes," very quietly.
Enraghty he said it was a miracle if he always knowed the best places to sleep, and the kindest women to ast for victuals. Do you believe it was, mother?" Nancy said, after an effort for her voice, "He might have been there before." "Well, that's so; but none of 'em thunk o' that. And what Mr. Enraghty said stopped the jawin' at the time.
Florence cried. "Kitty Silver, where on earth'd this dog come from?" "B'long you' Aunt Julia." "When'd she get him?" "Dess to-day." "Who gave him to her?" "She ain't sayin'." "You mean she won't tell?" "She ain't sayin'," Kitty Silver repeated. "I ast her. I say, I say: 'Miss Julia, ma'am, I say, 'Miss Julia, ma'am, who ever sen' you sech a unlandish-lookin' dog? I say.
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