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"There's a squad of buddies that I'll bet ain't yearnin' to hear someone yell 'Shun! at 'em again," I suggests. "Know any of 'em?" "It is quite possible," says Hartley, glancin' at 'em casual. "They all look so much alike, you know." With that he gets back to his Reserve Army scheme and he sure does give me an earful.
Not that she's messy about it, or intends to be mean. She simply don't take our little plans serious. They don't count. "There, there!" says she. "We'll say no more about it," and sails off to sort out the dresses she'll want to stow in her trunk. "Huh!" says I, glancin' at Vee. "Merry idea of hers, eh? Years and years!
"And the fact that I don't in the least deserve it makes it seem all the nicer. I suppose your being here, Lester, is part of the plot, too?" "I hope so," says the Professor. "Do you know," says Myra, liftin' her glass and glancin' kittenish over the brim at him, "I mean to try to live up to this day. I don't mind saying, though, that for a while it's going to be an awful strain."
"Well," he repeated, "she is the flower of the Smith race. Of course," sez he, glancin' at my liniment and then off towards the buttery full of good vittles, "I always except you, Samantha, who I consider the fairest flower that ever blowed out on the family tree of Smith." Josiah is a man of excelent judgment.
What a pity that they should believe anything so strange as that is, when there is a good, plain, practical, Christian belief that they might believe in, when they might be Methodists. And the Baptists now," sez he, a glancin' back at their steeple, "why can't they believe that a drop is as good as a fountain? Why do they want to believe in so much water? There haint no need on't.
But when my uncle come in from Louth, and give you a touch on the shoulder, and said: 'To bed wi' you, my lass, you waited for a minute longer, glancin' round on all of us, at last lookin' steady at Lancy; and he got up from his chair, and took off his hat to you with a way he had.
So I'm kind of sorry, when I answers the private office buzzer a little later, and finds Old Hickory purple in the face and starin' at something he's discovered between the pages of Brink's bond book. "Young man," says he as he hands it over, "perhaps you can fell me something about this?" "Looks lite a program," says I, glancin' it over casual. "Oh, yes.
She looked kinder mollyfied and continued: "Ardelia dashes off things with a speed that would astonish a mere common writer. Why she dashed off thirty-nine verses once while she wuz waitin' for the dish water to bile, and sent 'em right off to the printer, without glancin' at 'em agin. "I dare say so," sez I, "I should judge so by the sound on 'em."
With this and his pipe he settled himself down 'pon a dry ledge and waited for the tide to run back. "Out beyond the mouth of the hole he could see a patch of blue sky, and the little waves under it glancin' in the sunshine; and belike the dazzle of it, or else the tot of brandy, made him feel drowsy-like.
"I wonder if that could be er young man, I think I'll answer this myself." "Oh, very well, sir," says I, shruggin' my shoulders careless. Must have been half an hour later when Old Hickory calls me into the private office, and I finds him still gazin' at the scented note. "Torchy," says he, glancin' keen at me from Tinder his bushy eyebrows, "this Mrs.
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