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"That sounds religious, doesn't it a kind of Nonconformist business? I think she's the very finest. A fellow'd hold himself up, 'd be a deuce of a swell and, hang it all, I hate breakfasting alone!" "Yes, yes, Cluny; but what about a pew in church, with regular attendance, and a justice of the peace, and little Cluny Vosses on the carpet?" Cluny's face went crimson.
Lincoln noted these things, and made up her mind that her stepson would be a great man some day. Most frequently she thought he would be a great lawyer, because, as she said, "When Abe got started arguing, the other fellow'd pretty soon say he had enough." Probably at this time Abe was more noted for his love of learning new things and for his great natural strength than for anything else.
My maxim is and it has served me through life, uncommon, `Keep your weather-eye open and your tongue housed 'xcept when you've got occasion to use it. If that fellow'd use his eyes more and his tongue less he'd see your father comin' down the road there, right before the wind; with his old sister in tow." "How I wish he would have let me go with him!" muttered Fred to himself sorrowfully.
It was more important to know if you could make yourself useful at a round-up. "'Nother bunch o' them green Eastern horses," grumbled the ranch boss as the lot was turned into a corral. "But that black fellow'd make a rustler's mouth water, eh, Lefty?" In answer to which the said Lefty, being a man little given to speech, grunted. "We'll brand 'em in the mornin'," added the ranch boss.
That she should change so wasn't in the bargain; neither was it that she should read aloud in such sweet tones that a fellow'd like to listen to the dictionary; nor that she should make the house and yard look as they never did before, and, strangest of all, open my eyes to the fact that apple trees bear flowers as well as pippins.
When Miss Lydia and Johnny walked home together in the darkness her boy said: "A fellow'd be lucky with a mother like that, wouldn't he? She'd give him everything he wanted. She'd give him a pony," Johnny said, wistfully. "Yes," said Miss Lydia, faintly. "Wish I had a mother who'd gimme a pony," Johnny said, with the brutal honesty of his sex and years. And Miss Lydia said again, "Yes."
That I had not been alone since was no business of his. "Humph! You ain't exactly what a fellow'd call talkative this afternoon, seems to me. Anything wrong?" "No." "Tuckered out?" "I guess so." "Well, so am I, but I ain't had your fun getting that way. Small and I have been at it night and day getting things in shape so he could leave. He's gone. Went this noon.
She's worth a little expenditure. A real stunner! Any fellow'd be wild over her. An English girl, tall and slim, but gorgeous figure: long legs and throat, and dark eyes as big as saucers. You'd turn and look after her anywhere! A lady, and thinks herself the queen, though she works in a New York department store.
"Why do you say I get shot to pieces?" "Why not? The fellow'd be a fool to sit by and let us go aboard and we've got to go aboard!" "It is nonsense! You want my advice? Then leave him alone!" I think that Tommy's eyes narrowed slightly. I know that my teeth clenched at this evidence of quitting; yet what could we expect from a chap who did nothing but teach in a University?
But, Jehoshaphat! doesn't she freeze you to death!" "Very curious type," growled the Crow. "Bit of Vesuvius underneath, I expect." "Yes, that is what a fellow'd think to look at her," Jimmy said, puffing at his cigarette. "But she keeps the crust on the top all the time; the bloomin' volcano don't get a chance!" "She doesn't look stupid," continued the Crow.
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