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The corners of his mouth quirked upward, though his smile was becoming almost a stranger to his face. "We-ell, I dunno's you can blame me because it don't snow. I can't make it snow if it takes a notion not to snow " "Oh, come and eat, and never mind the snow," called Rosemary impatiently. "We've got to mind the snow or we don't eat much longer!"
He came unexpectedly, and he still wore his rough ranch clothes. After an hour or more spent with his wife and daughter, he went down to Gray's room and thanked him for the assistance he had rendered the two women. Followed a few moments of desultory conversation, then he put an abrupt question: "Mr. Gray, you're a rich man, ain't you?" "I am so considered." "Um-m! Dunno's I'm glad or sorry."
I asked some o' the fellers how she looked when they went off, an' they said her eyes was shinin' like stars; but there wasn't any more of her face to be seen, for she was rolled up in a big red shawl, It gits hoppin' cold here in September. I've always thought't was that same red shawl he had in his cabin; but I dunno's 'twas."
"He's sound as a nut!" declared Slim vehemently. "There ain't a thing in the world the matter with him. Ask any vet to look him over!" "Well, Slim, I dunno's he's worth the expense. Come on, now; tell me what's the least you'll take for him?" "Five hundred dollars." "Give you a hundred and fifty cash." "Say, do you want me to make you a present of him?" demanded Slim, indignantly sarcastic.
The minister would not have wine, and he could not stay. "I've really come on business," said he. "Do you know anything about Mr. Oldfield?" So strong was the family conviction that Nicholas had involved them in disgrace, that Mary glanced up fiercely, and her mother gave an apologetic cough. "Well," said Young Nick's Hattie, "I dunno's I know anything particular about father."
"He's shut up in a fish shanty down the road, and he's so upsot that I dunno's he'll stir from there tonight. Jerry ain't prejudiced, but that darky was too much for him." And then they both laughed, the widow because of the ludicrous nature of the affair and the Captain because of the relief that the lady's acceptance of it afforded his mind. Mrs. Snow was the first to become grave.
"So young Whiting's gone away, eh?" "Why, no," said Ruth quickly. "He went over to Wilbur's Fork about half an hour ago. Who said he'd gone away?" "Oh, nobody," said the woman hastily; "it's only what they was sayin' up at French Village yesterday." "What were they saying?" Ruth demanded. "Oh, just talk, I suppose," Mrs. Apgarth evaded. "Still, I dunno's I blame him.
Old Bell was amused, but Henry I beg pardon, Colonel Nelson was shocked. He couldn't bear to think of women, and of me especially, in business. He might have become disagreeably personal if his father hadn't been there." "Dunno's I care much for Henry," Tom said, mildly. "Oh, he's all right, but I hate Bell! It makes anybody mad to be laughed at. Henry was more diplomatic.
"Yes," said Candace, smoothing a woolly head in great distress, "but I dunno's they'll want 'em now, dey've been shook up so and spilt on de groun' oh, dear me!" "Joel, aren't you coming with that letter bag?" and, "Joel Pepper, hurry up!" The cries were now so insistent that Joel dashed away, stopped, and rushed back tumultuously. "Oh, Candace, I'm so sorry!"
"But there!" continued aunt Ann, dismissing all lighter considerations, "I dunno's that's any reason why you should bake in a tin kitchen, nor why you should need to heat up the brick oven every week, when 'twas only done to please him, an' he ain't here to know. Now, 'Melia, le's see what you could do. When you got the range in, 'twould alter this kitchen all over.
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