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Perhaps he does. Well, then, he's fishin' in the wrong puddle. Emily Howes, stop laughin' and makin' jokes and come into that livin'-room same as I ask you to." But this Emily firmly declined to do. "He's not my caller, Auntie," she said. "He didn't even ask if I were in." So Thankful went into the living-room alone to meet the personage. And she closed all doors behind her.
I heerd him wanst makin' a speech that near injooced me to take a bumb in me hand an' blow up Westminsther Cathedral. 'A-re ye, he says, 'men, or a-re ye slaves? he says. 'Will ye, he says, 'set idly by, he says, 'while th' Sassenach, he says, 'has th' counthry iv Immitt an' O'Connell, he says, 'an' Jawn Im Smyth, he says, 'undher his heel? he says.
I've always kind of hoped you'd take a tip from Bob Standish there's one of your own breed that knows where the durable satisfactions of life are. Just as good family's yours; just as much money; just as fond of games; and workin' like a prize pup in my office and makin' good.
'Twas a match o' Michael Tregenza's makin', I reckon, an', so like's not, Joe weern't any more heart-struck than Joan. I finds it hard to feel as I ought to Gray Michael, more shame to me. But Joan's failed in love wi' a gen'leman, an' he with her, an' he'm comin' any mornin' to fetch 'er an' an' you must be tawld 'tis time as he did come.
"Which I 'opes it 'ull do you good," she answered, "for you've eaten nothin', an' the sea breezes is miraculous for makin' you take to your victuals. My mother's brother, bein' a sailor, an' wonderful for 'is stomach, which, when 'e 'ad done a meal, the table looked as if a low-cuss had gone over it." "A what?" asked Fitzgerald, buttoning his gloves.
At sunset the breeze came away freshly from the old quarter the south-east and by dark we were at sea again, heading due north for Makin, the most northerly of the Gilbert Group, which was eighty miles distant, and which island I wanted to sight before keeping away north-west for the Caroline Archipelago, for there was a long stretch between, and I was not too brilliant a navigator.
I hate a bed as is kicked out at the foot an' I hate a man as makes a woman have to put the whole bed together again new every mornin'. I'm sure I don't see no good to come of kickin' nights an' I've talked to Elijah about layin' still till I should think he could n't but see how right I am an' how wrong he is, but still he goes right on kickin', an' now he's got it into his head as he's got to turn the town topsy-turvy by findin' out suthin' wrong as we'd rather not know, an' makin' us very uncomfortable by knowin' it, an' knowin' as now we know it we've got to do suthin' about it, an' that seems to make him kick more than ever."
I hear you're makin' oodles of money drawin' pictures for Mr. Bingham Henderson but let me tell you, my girl, you can't make good red blood no matter how much money you have. There's only one can do that." "Who's that, Aunt Kate?" Mary Rose hungered for the information, as she leaned against the table. "Who can make good red blood?" "God Almighty, honey, an' he's the only one.
There now settled at last, with your sweet grin upon you, and your tongue out, as if you were makin' fun of me for a beauty you were, and a beauty you are, and there I lave you!"
Well, I gets him back to the church just in time for the last curtain, so he can see what a stunner Mildred was in her canopy-top outfit. He's all right, Brother Bill is. Never gives me any call-down for shuntin' him off the way I did and makin' him miss most of the show. As I says to him afterward: "Bill," says I, "that was one on me. But we did throw the hook into Aunt Laura some! What?"
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