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When we got there she set me down in a split-bottomed chair, and set herself down on a little low stool in front of me, holding both of my hands, and says: "Now I can have a GOOD look at you; and, laws-a-me, I've been hungry for it a many and a many a time, all these long years, and it's come at last! We been expecting you a couple of days and more. What kep' you? boat get aground?" "Yes'm she "
I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. He's full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he's my own dead sister's boy, poor thing, and I ain't got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks.
She often pops her head out of the kitchen window to favor us with her remarks. As they always make us laugh, she won't take reproofs upon that subject. Kate says her impertinence is intolerable, but suffers it rather than resort to severity with her old benefactress. I enjoy it. She manages to turn her humor to account in various ways. I heard her exclaim, "Laws-a-me!
You hole a free paass on de raailroad, an' yit you countercend to fly to me!" The manner changed to one of sweet curiosity. "Does you fly jess with yo' two feet, aw does you comp'ise de assistance o' yo' ears?" "Why, eh why, I declah 'pon my soul, you you es peart es popcawn! You trebbles me to respond to you with sufficient talk-up-titude." "Does I? Laws-a-me! I ax yo' pahdon, Mr. Leggett.
The Major's abundant laugh flattered him; he promised to join the party at luncheon, lifted his plumed shako, and galloped away. Garnet drove into the edge of the town at a trot. "Here's where the reservoir's to be," he said, and spun down the slope into the shaded avenue, and so to the town's centre. "Laws-a-me!
I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. He's full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he's my own dead sister's boy, poor thing, and I ain't got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks.
"He's quite a baby still, though he's more than six. Some of the London children are so old. But this child's people seem nice and old-fashioned, although his uncle was a prizefighter." "Laws-a-me!" said Mrs. Ruth. "To think of that now! A prizefighter!"
'Oh, yes! they tag around after me considerable want me to play a little, just for amusement, they say but laws-a-me, if my folks have told me once to look out for that sort of live-stock, they've told me a thousand times, I reckon. By-and-bye, in due course, we were approaching San Francisco. It was an ugly black night, with a strong wind blowing, but there was not much sea.
"Laws-a-me, Lawya Ed! Is you-all gwine get marrit?" Viney was a fat, jolly young woman, whom Mrs. Leslie had lured from the little negro settlement in the township of Oro, a few miles from Algonquin. She felt the responsibility of her position fully, and showed a marked interest in the affairs of every one of the congregation. But of all living things she loved Lawyer Ed most.
'Oh, yes! they tag around after me considerable want me to play a little, just for amusement, they say but laws-a-me, if my folks have told me once to look out for that sort of live-stock, they've told me a thousand times, I reckon. By-and-bye, in due course, we were approaching San Francisco. It was an ugly black night, with a strong wind blowing, but there was not much sea.
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