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Be thim five crasses, I'm not promised to a girl livin', so I'm not, nor wouldn't, bekase I had you in my eye. Now will you tell me what I'm wantin' you? The grace o' Heaven light down an you, an' be a good, coaxin darlin' for wanst. Be this an' be that, if ever you heerd or seen sich doin's an' times as we'll have when we're marrid. Now the weeny whisper, a colleen dhas."
"You're a terrible fella for coaxin'!" She moved towards the trap where the head of the ladder showed, and prepared to descend from the loft. "What time will I come for you?" he asked, following her. "Half-seven," she answered, going down the ladder. "I'll be well done my work then!" He stood above her, looking down through the trap. "We generally have dinner at half-past seven," he said.
And she wur coaxin', and coaxin', and wheedlin', and wheedlin' a' the blessed wa'. "Wa'at didst thou let yon chap mak' oop tiv'ee for?" says I. "I deedn't, John," says she, a squeedgin my arm. "You deedn't?" says I. "Noa," says she, a squeedgin of me agean. 'Lor, John! interposed his pretty wife, colouring very much. 'How can you talk such nonsense? As if I should have dreamt of such a thing!
"Why not?" says I. "Why balk at a little thing like that when you've been doin' so well?" "Oh, but, Torchy," chimes in Marjorie, "you know you could do it so much better!" And what with both of them coaxin', and stuffin' expense money into my pockets, the next thing I know I'm on my way down to where the Boston trains come in, and am campin' outside the gate.
The skipper bes figgerin' on coaxin' of her 'round to marry wid him; but I hears, sir, as how she telled him as how she'd marry no poor, ignorant, dacent fisherman at all, but a king wid a golden crown on his head. Aye, sir, that bes the trut'. The likes o' she be well able to keep Black Denny Nolan in his place." "Thank God!" exclaimed Mr. Darling, sitting back in his chair again.
"Why, Torchy!" says Marjorie, real coaxin' "I thought we were such good friends!" "Well, I'm willin' to let it go that far," says I; "but don't try to ring in any folksy strangers. I'm here on business for the firm." Just then too down comes the maid sayin' there wa'n't anything to go back; so I starts to beat it.
Well, she was an awful jealous critter; says she, take 'em to her you spent the evenin with, I don't want you nor your presents neither. Arter a good deal of coaxin I stood on tother tack, and began to threaten to break the door down; says I, you old unhansum lookin sinner, you vinerger cruet you, open the door this minit or I'll smash it right in.
But a thought no larger than a man's hand has crossed her mind, and she said to me just now: 'I 'clare, Miss Sharly, it do look like, when you got a beau and he want to marry you, and all the time axin' and coaxin' an' beggin' you to get a div-o'ce, it do look like he ought to pay for the div-o'ce. Now what answer has your old science to give to a real heart problem such as that?"
The Old Man eyed them incredulously. "Yes, the whole bunch of us. We're going to quit." The Old Man's jaw dropped a little, but his eyes didn't waver from their Hangdog faces. "Well, I never coaxed a man to stay yet," he stated grimly, "and I'm gittin' too old in the business to start coaxin' now. Dell!" He turned stiffly in his chair so that he faced the open door.
I got leave to come and see him while he was here. Everything looked so nice and comfortable, that I thought a little of coaxin' a omnibus driver to run over me, so I might go there too." "Did your friend have to have his leg cut off?" asked Frank, interested.
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