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"Well, he's got a right smart property waitin' him when he comes," said Sol, feeling important and comfortable just to talk of all that Isom left. "A considerable," agreed the judge. "Say forty or fifty thousand worth, heh?" "Nearer seventy or eighty, the way land's advancing in this county," corrected the judge. Sol whistled his amazement. There was no word in his vocabulary as eloquent as that.
It seemed to me that if I could make him angry he would do better, so I knocked off his hat, which was black and hard, of the kind which is called billy-cock. "Heh, guv'nor!" he cried, "what are you up to?" "That was to make you angry," said I. "Well, I am angry," said he. "Then here is your hat," said I, "and afterwards we shall fight."
As the light streamed down upon its dial, a woman sidled out from the hollow of a shop-door behind him, and touched his elbow. "Deary!" she began. "Going home, deary?" "Heh? Let me alone, please," said the man roughly. "I am not that sort." She had almost slipped her arm in his before he turned to speak; but now she caught it away, gasping.
"The Colonel'll have to take over the breeches," said the Boy, with the air of one wandering in his head. Then, desperately: "What am I to do? What am I to say?" "Say? You say you no like girl scream, no like her fight like Anna. Heh? So, me I come like your girls quite, quite good.... Heh?" "You don't understand, Muckluck. I you see, I could never find that Orange Grove if you came along."
And as he spoke there came the low grumbling of a cannonade away somewhere to the east of us, deep and hoarse, like the roar of some blood-daubed beast that thrives on the lives of men. At the same instant there was a shouting of "Heh! heh! heh!" from behind, and somebody roared, "Let the guns get through!"
"Very well," replied the lieutenant, who was lying down in his standing bed-place. "The people say one is the Happy-go-lucky, sir," drawled Smith. "Heh? What! Happy-go-lucky? Yes, I recollect; I've boarded her twenty times always empty. How's she standing?" "She stands to the westward now, sir; but she was hove to, they say, when they first saw her."
That's a Coon," and as they hurried they heard a sudden change in the dog's note, no longer a deep rich 'B-o-o-w-w. It became an outrageous clamour of mingled yelps, growls and barks. "Ha heh. That means he's right on it. That is what he does when he sees the critter." But the "view halloo" was quickly dropped and the tonguing of the dog was now in short, high-pitched yelps at one place.
With her sweet delicate contour, her large gray eyes, and the sweep of the lustrous hair, setting off with its rich tint the little shell-like ears and the alabaster whiteness of the neck and throat, even Conde, who had seen all the beauties of three courts and of sixty years defile before him, stood staring in admiration at the Huguenot maiden. "Heh!
Perhaps I should say it was half laughter and half a chuckle of merriment, for the sounds he emitted were quaint and droll and tempted every hearer to laugh with him. "Heh, heh ho, ho, ho!" he roared. "Didn't expect me, I see. Keek-eek-eek-eek! This is funny it's really funny. Didn't know I was coming, did you? Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo! This is certainly amusing. But I'm here, just the same."
You seem to prosper, too, heh?" "Couldn't ask anything different. Nothing but devotion, and all that. I'm delighted. I say, when are you going to pop?" "Oh, I don't know. It is only a matter of form. Sooner the better, I suppose, and have it over." "I was thinking of next week. What do you say to a quiet picnic down on the rocks, and a walk afterwards?
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