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"How they've hounded me," Dinsmore went on, clearing his thin voice as best he could a voice unaccustomed to conversation. "The winter's the worst; you ain't never been hounded in winter. You ain't never knowed what it is to go hongry and alone. It'll give ye a new idee consarnin' folks. I used to think I knew the woods, but I tell ye I know 'em now.
At t'other end a great tester bedstead with dark curtains. There was a dark carpet on the floor. And with all there were so many dark objects and so many shadows, and the little taper burned so dimly that I could hardly tell t'other from which, or keep from breaking my nose against things as I groped about. "And what was I in this room for to do? I couldn't even form an idee.
And then, think to have one buildin' cover a place as large as Elam's farm! Why, jest the idee on't would, I believe, stunt Amanda Bobbet, or else throw her into spazzums. For she has always felt dretful proud of their farm, and the size of it; she has always said that it come hard on Elam to do all the work himself on such a big farm. She has acted haughty.
I can't see as he has the least idee of any one of them. I don't believe Thomas has ever seen anybody he wanted for a wife." "Well, he's got the pick of 'em, a-settin' their caps right in his face," said Aunt Betty.
My wife she's a little harder on folks than I be I think it aint worth while to say nothin' of a man without I can say some good of him that's my idee; and it don't do no harm, nother; but my wife, she says he's got to let down his notions a peg or two afore they'll hitch just in the right place; and I wont say but what I think she aint, maybe, fur from right.
Some one speaks of it, and there is an instant and eager smile of assent in the listener or listeners. Yes, indeed; they have often been struck by it. O, dear, yes! said one of the company, everybody has had that feeling. The landlady didn't know anything about such notions; it was an idee in folks' heads, she expected.
He stopped suddenly, peered over my shoulder, and blew out the candle. We could hear a horse neighing in the yard. "Some one et the window," he whispered. Then he ran to the door and drew the bolt. "Ain' much idee who 't is," he added, peering out of the window. "By gosh! more 'n a dozen folks out here, soldiers tew, most uv 'em on horseback. Come quick."
They thought that a girl with three or four thousand dollars in her own name, ought to set her eyes rather above a feller like him. Well, arter no end o' trouble, they was married. Her folks pretended to treat Amos all right, but was allers talkin' agin him; and finally they pizened her mind with the idee that he had married her only for her money, and that all the while he loved another gal.
It wuz like Peri in Paradise callin' for root-beer; it brung me down to the world agin, and anon I heard my pardner say "Wall, I wish I had a few of 'em this minute, Miss Plank." Eatin' at such a time as this the idee! But I wuz brung clear down, and I don't know but it wuz jest as well, for it wuz time for us to alight from our bark.
Pitcairn whether he had noticed the young man riding in the Warmore carriage with the mother and daughter. "Yes; I've seen him before. He is a son of an old friend of the family. I've an idee that he and Miss Warmore are intended for each other." "Do you know his name?" "Yes let me see. Ah, it is Catherwood G. Field Catherwood. He parts his name, like his hair, in the middle.