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"How'n 'ell did he git here the doctor?" he demanded, making a great effort to hold his voice down to a whisper, and forgetting now and then. "How'd he know Brit rolled off'n the grade? Us here, we never knowed it, and I was tryin' to send him back when you came. He said somebody telephoned there was a man hurt in a runaway.
"It is tragic!" declared Ruth, earnestly. "There was no insurance, and all us girls want to help build a new dormitory. I have a plan and you can help " "We ell," said Mr. Hammond, doubtfully. "How much does this mean?" "I don't know. If the idea is as good as I think it is, Mr. Hammond," Ruth told him, placidly, "you will make a lot of money, and so will Briarwood Hall."
'And you'll have a perfect right to; I assure you of that. 'Ell, you are not thinking still about that poetical friend of yours? She neither admitted nor denied the charge. 'I am not going to get over my illness this time, she reiterated. 'Something tells me I shan't.
A cry of "Scat! you devil!" and the crash of an empty bottle against the back of his aunt's woodshed brought him wide awake, and a single minute later he was dressed and out of the window and creeping along the roof of the "ell" on all fours. He "meow'd" with caution once or twice, as he went; then jumped to the roof of the woodshed and thence to the ground.
And I fancied a tendency to treat it as if it were somebody else's, to take an ell when we meant to give no more than an inch, and J. was as little inclined as I to furnish a new proof of the wise old proverb.
Talk English, you bloody blighter! 'Ear me, talk English!" "What's he mean?" Anita bent close to Fairchild. "I don't know I don't think Taylor Bill can talk anything else. Put your finger on this knot while I tighten it. Thanks." Again the command had come from farther on: "Talk English! 'Ear me I'll knock the bloody 'ell out of you if you don't.
I held her in the road, the men, and women, and children, and dogs and hens getting out of the way as fast as they could. She was a going lickety-split, and although I wasn't frightened, I decided she'd got to stop. "I saw a house with an ell, and in the corner the snow was packed up ten feet high. I had an idea.
"I wanted a good bright lastin' shade. 'T won't look so yaller when father lets me paint the house to match, but that won't be till next year. He makes fun of the yaller color same as you; says a home's something you want to forget when you're away from it. Mother says the two rooms of the ell are big enough for somebody to set up housekeepin' in. What do you think?"
"I cannot do any such thing," replied Polly; "and I think that quite enough has been settled for one morning. It's give an inch and take an ell with some folks." Ontario waited for breakfast, and had an interview with his future father-in-law. It was an hour after the scene up-stairs before Mr. Neefit could descend, and when he did come down he was not very jovial at the breakfast-table.
"Insist on the treatment due your age, act like a lady, and you will be safe." "Well," Mrs. Whately tried to say politely, "have not you young people taken an ell?" "No, Mrs. Whately," Scoville replied gravely. "We have not taken a step out of our way between here and the quarters, although we have lingered in conversation. We have ever been in plain sight of many of your people.
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