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It was by betting at horseraces that your father made a living, and whiles he was large o' siller, but that didna last, and I question whether he would have stuck to me if I hadna got work. Well, he's gone, and the Thrums folk'll soon ken the truth about Jean Myles now." She paused, and then cried, with extraordinary vehemence: "Oh, man, how I wish I could keep it frae them for ever and ever!"
Well, my dear, I don't guess it's our way talking these things, but I got that inside me makes me want to say a whole heap about how I feel and what I think. Guess I'm not going to try though. It wouldn't amount to anything if I talked a day through. I wouldn't have said half I needed to. You and Marcel are all I've got, and you two dear folk'll be the last thought I have in life.
"If we do find it," returned Dawtie, "folk'll say them 'at could hide could weel seek! I s' luik naegait wantin' you, mem!" The study was bare of books, and the empty shelves gave no hint of concealment They stood in its dreariness looking vaguely round them. "Did it ever come to ye, mem," said Dawtie, "that a minute or twa passed between Mr.
And when you've nailed another crowd of treasure-hunters and got the ship ready, you'll just ship me along as steward, with Kwaque, and Killeny Boy, and the rest of our family. You've adopted me, now, an' I'm your grown-up son, an' you've got to listen to me. The Bronx is the hotel for you fine-soundin' name, ain't it? That's atmosphere. Folk'll listen half to you an' more to your hotel.
"Fifty wouldn't hardly do, p'r'aps?" "Hardly. I like to carry a job through clean an' vitty while I'm on it." "You've got such a big spirit." "As to that, money so spent ban't lost 'tis all in the fam'ly." "Of course 'tis a gude advertisement for you. Folk'll think you'm prosperin' an' look up to you more." "Well, some might, though I doan't 'zactly mean it like that.
It's the end, I jalouse! Is Mr. Alexander come?" "We look for him to-morrow." "The land and the folk'll be blithe to see him if it was not for the occasion of his coming! If there's aught a body can do for any at Glenfernie ?" "Every one has been as good as gold, Greenlaw. But you know there's not much at the last that can be done " "No. We all pass, and they that bide can but make the dirge.
"Just the same," she added, the sense of outrage holding over, "we'd ruther you'd 'a' come to-morrer." Ben strode through the shop and out to the living-room, Mrs. Whipp following impotently, talking in a high, angry voice. "'T ain't my fault, Miss Upton. He would come in. Some folk'll do jest what they please, whatever breaks." "Law, Ben Barry!" exclaimed Miss Mehitable with a start.
They'll have one hell of a burst at the saloon when the work's done, and every feller'll be guessin' he could have done the other feller's job better than he could have done it himself, and the women folk'll just say what elegant critturs their men are, till they get home sossled. Then they'll beat hell out of 'em. They'll sure be proud of it, but I don't guess the church'll be proud of them.
Pappleworth and Paul looking down on them from the far end of the room. They stopped singing. "Can't you make a bit less row?" said Mr. Pappleworth. "Folk'll think we keep cats." A hunchback woman on a high stool turned her long, rather heavy face towards Mr. Pappleworth, and said, in a contralto voice: "They're all tom-cats then." In vain Mr. Pappleworth tried to be impressive for Paul's benefit.
"Just as if all them there bigwigs need ha' made all that fuss, Master Bob," said the coxswain one day when he was up at the house. "Why, if I'd ha' been the Adm'ral I should ha' just slapped the Cap'n on the shoulder and ha' said, 'It's a bad job, Cap'n Trevor, but the dock-yard folk'll soon put the "Flash" to rights, and, as soon as your fin feels fit, go down and take the command again."
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