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She caught the new girl's glance and smiled encouragingly. "Doesn't she make a darling boy!" whispered Bess Harley to her chum. But the other girls at least, some of them meant to make the newcomer feel keenly her position as a "sawney." "She wears 'em just as though she was at home in them," said Laura drawlingly. "I tell you she is a regular cowgirl at home on the Hot Dog Mesa.
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, ain't it?" Fleda replied that it was.
Her face was red, and she walked briskly behind the warden, smiling and shaking her head. Noticing the inspector she gazed at him with frightened face, but immediately recovered herself and boldly and cheerfully turned to Nekhludoff. "How do you do?" she said, drawlingly, smiling and vigorously shaking his hand, not as on the former occasion.
Spalding, not given to stepping lively at other men's commands, was slow in answering, and then spoke drawlingly: "Wanted, am I? Well, that's interestin'. By who? I'm wonderin'." "Miss Gloria. She wants you right away." "That's different," said old Jim, getting to his feet. Gratton turned and hastened back to the house, Jim quickening his own pace as he sensed something out of the ordinary.
Then, sighting the boys up in the trees, and each with a club, he reined up. "Hello, boys!" he called drawlingly. "Who's been a-chasing you? What scared you?" "Read that notice, sir, tacked up at the bridge entrance," urged Dick. Alighting, and drawing a pair of spectacles from a vest pocket, the farmer complied. "Mad dog, eh?" he drawled. "Sho!" "Did you see anything of the brute?" called Darry.
"One of the Lost Tribes of Israel, shouldn't wonder," drawlingly volunteered Waldo, stifling a yawn, and forced to rub his inflamed eyes with a surreptitious paw.
Flint's cold any good," Mrs. Richards said, drawlingly. "Mr. Flint's cold?... I don't quite see what that has to do with it." "Oh, you said 'we' I somehow got the impression...." "No, Mrs. Richards, you've misunderstood me again." Claire threw a cool, even glance at her antagonist. "I made the trip from Yolanda to Sausalito in Mr. Stillman's car." "Oh!" said Mrs.
"On a wild goose séance," answered McCoppet. "He's in the way around here." "Oh," said Bostwick, who failed to understand. "I thought " "Yes. I culled your thought from your letters," interrupted his host drawlingly. "We might as well understand each other first as last. Bostwick are you out here to work this camp my way or the kid's?" Bostwick was cautious. "How does he wish to work it?"
The exacting nature of the stranger's questions was unsettling to Greeley. She seemed determined to tag and classify all the real estate in the county. "No one ain't damaged the building," he said drawlingly; "some of the folks think it is han'ted. I reckon Smith Crothers owns it." "That man owns too much!" Marcia Lowe gave again her penetrating laugh.
"Here, you black rascal!" the lad angrily exclaimed. "What do you mean by blocking the sidewalk that way? It's against the law, and I could have you arrested for that." "No, could yo' really now?" asked Eradicate drawlingly for he was not afraid of Andy. "Yes, I could, and don't you give me any of your back-talk! Get that brush out of the way!" and Andy kicked the long handle.
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