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"I reckon I'll do somethin'," said the sheriff, drawlingly. "I'll have to see Lawler an' get his side of it. An' if you charge Lawler with murder, I'll have to bring him in. But I'm warnin' you that if you ain't got any witnesses to prove your charge, you ain't got no show of convictin' him. An' Lawler's standin' is pretty high in this country, Warden an' don't you forget it!"
Indeed, such was the wonderful account given of these fowls by our hero, that the simple-minded woman would have pledged her farm for no more than a pair. "La's me! do tell. Eat off barrel heads in two months! Mean flour barrels, I 'spose?" ejaculated the good woman, drawlingly, as her urchins gathered round, peering eagerly in through the slats of the coop.
"To-day, yes; to-morrow, no." He was leaning back, blowing rings of smoke, and was looking up at them. "Perhaps I shouldn't say it," she said, "but during the last three months you have appeared stranger than ever." "Yes," he drawlingly replied, "for during the last three months it was natural that I should be stranger than ever." "I do wish I knew what you mean."
"And I'll get plenty on you again! now that I know you are the main guy of a clever outfit. You'll be starting some smooth game but I'm going to be right after you every minute. And I'll get you. That's the news I wanted to slip you." "So!" commented Larry drawlingly. "Casey's a fairly decent guy, considering his line but, Gavegan, I don't see how Casey stands you as a partner.
I'm going to be brave for him and my mother! Sandy I am not afraid I am not afraid!" The words came slowly, drawlingly but unbrokenly. "My aunt," and for an instant the eyes rested on the bowed head of Marcia Lowe, "has told me many things I understand right many things, now! I know you-all want to help me; want the best for me but what's done, is done, Sandy Morley, and I can do my part.
The girls on the other side of the quilt again held counsel together, deep and low. "Well, didn't she pick up all them notions in that place yonder? where you say she has been?" aunt Syra went on. "No," said Fleda; "everybody does so in New York." "I want to know what kind of a place New York is, now," said old Mrs. Finn, drawlingly. "I s'pose it's pretty big, aint it?"
Deliberately taking off his coat and laying it down, and pitching his hat after it, he drawlingly observed: "Look a here, fellers. I be ez disapp'inted ez any on ye, not ter see them fellers licked. But ye see, 'twuz the Cap'n that saved my back, an it don't nohow lie in my mouth no more'n doos yourn to call names naow he's tuk a noshin tew save theirn.
A puff or two next week, a bit of chop, but nothing much! The stormy season was over ahead of time, thank heaven, and a fellow could earn an honest day's pay without fear of putting to sea. The Rector talked drawlingly, biting at a black "cardoon" from a smuggler's stock, his whole being swallowed up in the majestic slumber of the shore.
And S th was clearly getting drunk too. "Why, you don't see where they hit," said S th drawlingly. "Somewhere about the pineal; and therefore we say impudence is moral, sometimes immoral, as just now when you damned me. No more of your old junk, I say, sitting here in my cathedra, which by the way is spring-bottomed, which may account for my moral elasticity that a highwayman is a coward."
"There's so much of this desert unsurveyed," he said, "that no man can tell whether he's just inside or just outside of Purgatory." "So you come to me to find out?" Culver demanded somewhat shortly. "Do you tin-horn miners think that's all this office is for?" "Well, in my instance, I had to come to some wiser spirit than myself to get my bearings," answered Van drawlingly. "You can see that."
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