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Boozy stood by the bar in gorgeous array. "How are you, Colonel?" said Dennie. "It's McCafferty!" cried the Colonel, "an' as hearty as ever. As smilin', too, an' ready, I'm hopin', ter take a han' in the fight fer his ould frind." "I am that, Colonel. How's it going?" "Shmokin' hot, Dennie, an' divil a wan o' me knows whose end o' the poker is hottest."
"I'll put fresh logs on the fire," said Sandy, "tae keep the cauld oot, and I'm hopin' that there's nae ane abroad this night." At the little depot at the Centre, the station master stood upon the platform looking anxiously up the track, hoping to see the light of an approaching train. "'Most three hours late," muttered the man. "I'd like ter know if it ain't er comin' ter-night."
You would not have me attempt to obstruct the course of justice, would you? The man will get a fair trial, I hope." "I hope so, your honor; but this petition is not about the crime the unfortunate man is in for; it's an humble prayer to your honor, hopin' you might restore him or, I ought rather to say, his poor family, to the farm that they wor so cruelly put out of.
"I don't want you to say things like that before people." "Like what?" he asked. She did not answer. He went on: "I don't mean to assume anything, God knows. I'm only waitin' and hopin'. I'll go away if you want me to and let you think it over alone." "I wish you would," she said, realizing that this committed her to at least a consideration of his proposal. He held out his hand.
Such love stories are happening all the while among poor people, an' so are too common for the way-up world; yet they are full of heartaches, an' hot, droppin' tears, an' great sobs that are like moans. An' so my neighbor King had come to the end of his tragedy; had found the idol of his young life an' love put away in her grave, an' the waitin' an' hopin' was at an end.
"But I don't think the warriors are there," said Henry. "It was good tactics to come down the river before crossing, and if Indian scouts were out they must have been fooled." "I'm hopin' with every breath I draw that what you say is true," said Shif'less Sol. Henry, as he spoke, kept his eyes on the dark loom of forest and shore.
"It is," replied that worthy servitor, "and I was hopin' that it was Captain MacKay's rations which were given into my hands, so to say, by the higher power. I was standing behind you, Maister John, last nicht when you and him was argling-bargling, and if ever I saw a cunning twa-faced Covenanter, it's that man.
"Well, I'm hopin' you don't git many more of them idees right soon. I'm sure with you to the finish, but I ain't wishful to git mine that way." "I ain't askin' you to," said Pete, for he was angry with himself despite the logic of his own argument. They were near the herd.
"Son," said Lund simply, "I'm afraid of nothing. But they're primed for somethin', under Carlsen. We'll be makin' Unalaska ter-morrer or the next day. Here's hopin' it's the next. An' we've got to know what to expect. Did you know that the skipper has had another bad spell?" "No. When?" "Jest a few minnits ago. Cryin' for Carlsen like a kid for its nurse an' bottle. The doc's with him now.
They say Ben was so all-fired mad at the gal that kicked 'im to death that he said all women was unfaithful, an' he picked Het out for reward because she had showed she was one amongst a million. Then, too, Het kept tellin' 'im he was good for another forty years, while the rest of his kin was sayin' to his teeth that they was sorry he had to go an hopin' that he had his papers in order.
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