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Easterly. "See here," interrupted Mrs. Vanderpool. "I'm interested in Alwyn; in fact, an honest man in politics, even if he is black, piques my curiosity. Give him a chance and I'll warrant he'll develop all the desirable traits of a first class office-holder." Easterly hesitated. "We must not offend the South, and we must placate the Negroes," he said.
Called upon by Uncle Frank for his opinion, Bartley hesitated, and then said that, if the horses were his, he would be tempted to go and get them, regardless of consequences. Bartley's stock went up, with Little Jim, right there. Cheyenne turned to Uncle Frank. "I'm ridin' over to Clubfoot's wikiup to-morrow mornin'. I'll git my hosses, or git him. And I'm ridin' alone."
"She's in bed with a sick headache," she said. "She has an awful lot of them lately. I'm afraid she's kind of run down." "Why don't you get a tonic?" "Well, I have been thinking of it, but Dr. Wallace gives such dreadful strong medicines, and Lucy is so delicate, that I have hesitated. I don't know but I ought to take her to Alford to Dr. Gilbert, but she doesn't want to go.
"Off your hands," cried Bax, striding forward. The miner, who was a powerful man, hesitated. Bax seized him by the neck, and sent him head over heels into his own tent, which stood behind him. "Serves him right!" cried one of the crowd, who appeared to be delighted with the prospect of a row. "Hear, hear!" echoed the rest approvingly.
The girl hesitated, and then spoke as if to excuse him, but again Trenchon demanded his name. "He is the blacksmith of the village, and Cameron is his name." "I remember him," said Trenchon. "Is thy mother, then, dead?" "Yes," answered the girl, weeping afresh. "She has been dead these five years." "I knew her when I was a boy," said Trenchon.
For this the boy was to pay one dollar per week, and in the end receive his watch, as good as new, for the sum of ten dollars, as originally advanced. Paul hesitated, but consented since he had no choice in the matter. "What name?" asked the Uncle, benevolently.
Thus attired she came down to dinner one evening, trotting behind her husband as a well-trained Japanese wife should do. In foreign dress she appeared petite and exotic, but one would have hesitated to name the land of her birth. It was a shock to Geoffrey to see her again in her native costume.
"I am sure that Madame Wachner would wish me to do so," she said, smiling; and after a rather ungracious pause the woman admitted her into the house, leading the way into the darkened dining-room. "Do you think it will be long before Madame Wachner comes back?" asked Sylvia. The woman hesitated "I cannot tell you that," she mumbled. "They never say when they are going, or when they will be back.
"I don't know but whut you've got the proper notion about it after all." "Yes, suh. Them Gaffords have been purty nigh the only real true friends I ever had that I could count on." He hesitated a moment. "I reckin I reckin, suh, it'll be a right smart while, won't it, before that money gits here frum all the way acrost the ocean?" "Why, yes; I imagine it will.
"I've been a fool to-night, but if I'm up against silly old things like instincts, I'm going to put them down." "You will make good all right. But what did your mother think when you resolved to come with us?" Carrie hesitated, and then gave Jim a level glance. "You didn't see mother much. She was busy; she's always busy, and you don't know her yet.
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