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"Bedad, sir, I was very near havin' cotch the right Mrs. Norton yestherday I mane, I thought I was." "How was that?" asked his master. "Why, sir, I heard there was a fine, good-looking widow of that name, livin' in Meeklenburgh street, where she keeps a dairy; and sure enough there I found her. Do you undherstand, sir?" "Why should I not, sirra? What mystery is there in it that I should not?"
"I tell 'ee what it is, sister, I'm tired of livin' a solitary bachelor life, all by myself, so I'm goin' to make a change, lass." Mrs Brand was for some moments speechless, and Minnie, who was sewing near the window, dropped her hands and work on her lap, and looked up with inexpressible amazement in her sweet blue eyes.
He had no real near neighbors livin' a little out of town but those who was nearest said a wagon had gone by in the night, an' they though it stopped at her door. Well, tracks always tell, an' there was the wagon tracks an' hoss tracks an' man tracks. The news spread like wildfire that Milly had run off from her husband. Everybody but Frank believed it an' wasn't slow in tellin' why she run off.
"Humph," sez Bill. "Where is St. James Court, Bill?" sez I. "Well, I never expected you to know anything about such things!" sez Bill. "'Tis wonderful how intelligent some trained animals are, ain't it?" sez I, sarcastic. "But you must remember, little one, that I've been livin' right in the house with folks a good part of my life.
"You're afraid of us!" he accused. I was silent, not knowing just how to meet so direct an attack. "No need to be," he continued. I said nothing. He looked at me shrewdly; then stood off on another tack. "Well, sir, I didn't mean just that. I didn't mean you was really scared of us. But we're gettin' to know each other, livin' here on this old island, brothers-like.
'Mas' May and Miss May, ma'am. 'Mrs. Powder, Missee Hazel and all de rest! added Dingee. 'Spect dere ain't a livin' soul won't be there, time I get back. Miss Fisher, she done ask for Mas' Rollo. But I'se learnin' to tell the truf fustrate. 'What is the truth about me, Dingee? asked that gentleman. 'I should be glad to hear it.
It must be awful lonesome when you first arrive and don't know a livin' soul. I hope your wife is tolerable well." Bingham gradually pulled himself together and turned very red, as he replied: "Thanks! But my wife doesn't live here. It's awful kind of you, I'm sure; but you'll find my wife in the third house beyond the bakery, down two blocks turn to the right. She'll be glad to see you."
Put on thy strength. Only it come out some differ'nt from me than it come from Isaiah. I didn't know quite what I was goin' to say, but just then I looked up Daphne Street, an' I see 'em all sprinkled along comin' from the funeral neighbours an' friends an' just folks an' most of 'em livin' in Friendship peaceful an' barrin' slopovers doin' the level best they could.
"He's been livin' soft too long, don't you reckon?" "No, sir. He just didn't have the sand in his craw to hang on and finish you off whilst you was rippin' up his laigs." Dave roped his mount and rode out to meet Chiquito. The pinto was an aristocrat in his way. He preferred to choose his company, was a little disdainful of the cowpony that had no accomplishments.
'He's gone off his head, and stopped in some swell town in New Zealand Canterbury, I think it's called livin' tiptop among a lot of young English swells, instead of makin' off for the Islands, as he laid out to do. 'How do you know he's there? I said. 'I know, and that's enough, snarls father.
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