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'Then I'll away to the doctor this blessed minit, and Miss Miller will be for sendin' that parish nurse she's a startin' of, and who's a kickin' up her heels with naught to keep her out o' mischief.
"Yes, that she will, child," returned her mother; "Things is all gwine to be changed in the wink of your eye. Miss Anna read that very tex' to me last Sunday and I knew in a minit what it meant. Now thar's Miss Anna, blessed lamb. She's one of 'em that'll wear her white gowns and stay in t'other room, with her face shinin' like an ile lamp!"
"I'll turn him loose, and it will be a good lesson fur him it will l'arn him not to kill no dog of mine. Cut the rope, Bob," he added, speaking to one of the boys. The negro dropped down upon his knees to thank Jasper, but the old man bade him arise and go about his business. "I would have done the same for a dog," said he. "Wait a minit. You don't look like you've had anythin' to eat lately.
It looks fool enough. She says she never saw 'em again, he went straight out and burnt 'em." "He chose the wrong minit," said her husband beside her. "If he knew as much about women as I do, for instance." "Just you mind," said his wife, warningly. "Why, Miss Hilton, whatever's the matter?" she added, catching sight of Anne's face. "It is such a painful story," rejoined Anne.
"I was wantin' to see ye, a minit," continued she; "but Miss Coffin allers keeps cleaned up so slick, I don't hardly darst to come in." "Oh, waal," replied Phineas, with a chuckle of satisfaction at the compliment to his wife. "Ye look nice enough for anybody's folks. Come right in, this way."
"In here, if you please. My brother Henry's room is the most convenient." The officer's eyes twinkled. "So this is Mr. Sandford's room?" "Yes, but he is absent, as you were told before. Lay Charles on the bed, if you please. There, that will do. I will attend to him now. You can return to the lower story." "In a minit, Ma'am.
Begor, while he was spakin' he seen the hape o' guineas in the middle of the flure growing littler and littler every minit; and at last they wor disappearing, for all the world like corn in the hopper of a mill.
"I looked hout for yer honour all day yesterday," he said, "but you lay like a hare in a furze bush. Things is looking curious, yer honour." "Indeed, Simon. How?" "Can 'ee come this yer way a minit, yer honour?" "Certainly," I said, and followed him into a room over the stables.
"Wal, hold on a minit," said the other, panting loudly; "let's rest a leetle I'm nigh gin out;" and he seated himself so close to Archie that, had it been daylight, he would certainly have been discovered. "I'll be dog-gone," said the one who had first spoken, "ef this 'ere night's work don't beat all natur'. Them ar Yanks ain't no fools, dog ef they ar!"
"Well, isn't or ain't, it's all the same; she's not started yet. An' mind you, Mrs. Munn's upstairs helping, too, and her expecting the new doctor any minit. Say, Miss Weir, when she comes down, ask her whether he's married or not, aw, do. She's the closest creature. I can't get anything out of her."
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