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"I ain't surprised that you ain't lettin' no grass grow under your feet 'bout inquirin' for Miss Pollyanna. I said long ago 'twould come sometime, an' it's bound to what with your growin' so handsome and tall. An' I hope 'twill; I do, I do. It'll be just like a book, what with her a-findin' you an' gettin' you into that grand home with Mr. Pendleton.
He ought to be; I never heard of him lettin' go of anything he got hold of. Maybe you think I'm talkin' pretty free about your relation, Mrs. Barnes," he added, apologetically. "I hadn't ought to, I suppose, but I've had one or two little dealin's with Sol, one time or 'nother, and I well, maybe I'm prejudiced. Excuse me, won't you? He may be altogether different with his own folks."
"Well, sir," he remarked, "you fellers are certainly square I gotta say that much. Honest, Penrod, I thought you was after me! I did think so," he added sunnily; "but now I guess you like me, or else you wouldn't of stuck to it about lettin' me drink it all if I kept on swallering." He chatted on with complete geniality, smoking his cigarette in content.
Wal unless you say right here you're goin' to hit the trail with me, when things get busy; unless you tell me right out you're goin' to let me square off jest a bit of the score you got chalked up agin me all these years by lettin' me help you out in this racket, then I'm goin' to set right out ther' by the old stockade, and when Bob Richards gets around, he an' as many of his dogone dep'ties as I can pull down are goin' to get their med'cine.
"I'm much obliged to ye for lettin' of me see her," he said, hoarsely, and crept feebly down the steps. Evelina went back trembling to the room where her dead cousin lay, and covered her face, and closed the shutter again. Then she went about her household duties, wondering.
"But I'm almost sorry you were the one to come. I'm afraid that man will get you into trouble. Has he can he What did he mean about to-morrow? Who IS he?" The captain pushed his cap back from his forehead. "Teacher," he said, "there's a proverb, ain't there, about lettin' to-morrow take care of itself?
The Mays was always respectable. Old Mis' May was real proud." Mrs. Butterfield ruminated: "Well, he don't like it, course. Ain't it pitiful? Almost makes you feel like lettin' him wait. But what's the use?" Lizzie Graham nodded. "But there's people would pay money for one of them machines if it worked." "That's what he said; he said he'd make a pile of money.
"I guess th' old priests who used t' run this place would be everlastin'ly down on me if they knew that I'd tumbled to it. There's a hole right up into th' idol an' room inside of him for half a dozen men, an' there's a crack in his head that you can see out through while you're lettin' off prophecies an' that sort o' thing.
Ward, I can't love Him; Him havin' all the power, and yet lettin' Tom's soul go down to hell; fer Tom couldn't help it, and him livin' so. I ain't denyin' religion, ner anything like that I'm a Christian woman, an' a member but I can't love Him, so there's no use talkin' I can't love Him." She turned away and shook the shirt out, hanging it over the back of a chair in front of the stove, to dry.
"Are you referring to my toilet, Mr. Striker?" he inquired amiably. "I was talkin' about the storm," explained Phineas hastily. "Take the boots out to the kitchen, Zachariah. Eliza'll git into your wool if she ketches you leavin' 'em in here. Yes, sir, she's certainly lettin' up. Goin' down the river hell-bent. They'll be gettin' her at Attica 'fore long.
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