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Patterson with a suddenly serious manner of her own, "I never been one to flatter folks to their faces unless I felt it from the bottom of my heart I never been that kind; when I tell a person such-and-such about themselves they can take it for the truth's own truth; so you can believe me now I saw lots of times in that play to-night when you was even funnier than the cross-eyed man."
He's playin' that toon cross-eyed enough to steer anybody crooked. There. Keep your blacking soft, and work with a dry brush." "Lemme," said Billy. "I've got to learn." So he finished the boot his own way with wiry determination, breathing and repolishing; and this event was also adjudged a dead heat, with results gratifying to both parties.
He pulled out some mill papers and was about to proceed to discuss his business when Travis interrupted: "Hold on," he said, good humoredly, "after my experience with that cross-eyed genius of a dog, I'll need something to brace me up." He handed Carpenter a glass and each drank off his cocktail at a quaff. Travis settled quickly to business.
"Don't be silly, Roger. He's so unused to our sort of society that he's willing to bow down at the shrine of any pretty girl." "Oh, Patsy-Pat! Do you consider YOURSELF a pretty girl? How CAN you think so? Your nose turns up, and I think you're a little cross-eyed " "Oh, Roger, I am not!"
But what did I do but up and hurt his feelings by callin' him knock-kneed and cross-eyed. That comes of not stickin' to the truth, Mr. Gwynne, and it's a derned good lesson for me. Honesty is the best policy, as the feller says. It'll probably cost me forty or fifty dollars for being so slack with my veracity."
He supposed this bundle to contain one of his patents; a question to Baird when the scene was over proved him to be correct. "Sure," said Baird, "that's one of your patents." Yet he still wished the little sister had not been made to marry the cross-eyed hotel clerk. And another detail lingered in his memory to bother him.
David recalled the muscular bare arms he had seen during the trapeze act, and wondered how so slight a person as she now seemed to be could be so powerfully developed. "I knew something awful was going to happen," she said. "I saw a cross-eyed man in the blues to-day. It never fails." Circus people, from the beginning of history, have been superstitious.
'Long about sundown, here he is back and hollerin' at the fence. 'Come out here, preacher I've got her, He had a woman in his buggy that Blaylock had never put eyes on in all his born days. 'Wouldn't none o' them I sent ye to have ye? the preacher asked Zack in a kind of whisper, when he looked at that thar snaggle-toothed, cross-eyed somebody that Shalliday'd fetched back.
"Isn't there another Simpson girl?" asked Miss Lydia Burnham; "for this one couldn't have been cross-eyed; I remember Mrs. Ladd saying Adam remarked about this child's handsome eyes. He said it was her eyes that made him buy the three hundred cakes. Mrs. Ladd has it stacked up in the shed chamber." "Three hundred cakes!" ejaculated Miranda. "Well, there's one crop that never fails in Riverboro!"
Wolff's, our destination, was at the head of the street, and in a few minutes we were sitting side by side at the work-table, while our new forewoman, a cross-eyed Irish girl, was showing us what to do and how to do it. Making jewel-and silverware-cases was now our work.
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