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And when it was finished they took their departure, a trifle awkwardly, led by Mr. Painter. "They're a little mite bashful," said Mr. Botcher, apologetically. "How many more of those bills have you got?" demanded Mr. Bascom, from the steam radiator, with characteristic directness. "I put 'em all in this morning," said Mr.
"Did you come up here with orders for me to get out?" he demanded, with some pardonable violence. "By thunder, I didn't think that of my old friend, Hilary Vane. You ought to have known me better, and Flint ought to have known me better. There ain't a mite of use of our staying here another second, and you can go right back and tell Flint what I said.
The Widow Thatcher commented approvingly upon her fine color when she appeared at the house. "You just stay here a leetle mite longer, Mis' Riley, and you'll be that changed you won't know yourself," said the kindly woman, heartily. "I'm sure of that!" murmured her guest. The red-haired lady who called herself Mrs.
But right there before supper; and we could smell the roast chicken and coffee, havin' left the stair-door open right there, before we had visited hardly any, or talked a mite about other wimmen, she begun on what she wanted to do, and what she must do, for the boy. I had told her how the boy had grown, and that sot her off.
Men always enjoy themselves in company apart from their wives, of course. I would sometimes oppose to this a sentiment palliative of her husband; as, that, in company, a man very naturally wished to add his mite to the general joyousness, or something of a like nature. But it only excited her, and drew forth remarks that shocked my feelings.
Emmeline Lestrange, his little niece eight years of age, a mysterious mite, small for her age, with thoughts of her own, wide-pupilled eyes that seemed the doors for visions, and a face that seemed just to have peeped into this world for a moment ere it was as suddenly withdrawn sat in a corner nursing something in her arms, and rocking herself to the tune of her own thoughts.
I liked to have died with my hurt at that hospital, but when I was getting well it made me think of when I was a mite of a chap to home before mother died, to be laying there in a clean bed with somebody to do for me. Guess you think I'm a good hand to spin long yarns; somehow it comes easy to talk to-day."
She approached the table and rested one hand on it, a hawk-like brightness in her eyes. "What you got in that bag?" asked she. Solon was enjoying his certainty that he held the key to the situation. "I got a mite o' cheese," he answered, approaching the fire and spreading his hands to the blaze. "You got anything else? Now, Solon, don't you keep me here on tenter-hooks! You got a letter?"
He brought his heel down with such vehemence that he chipped off a splinter from the threshold. "Best stand back, Eadie, and be careful not to touch him," advised the Captain, eyeing the human cyclone with amusement and amazement. "Looks mighty dangerous, and sort as if he might go off." Harry met these words with a blazing glare. "Cal'late you'd best come in and cool off a mite, Harry.
But what the deuce really IS Aggie?" "Well," said Nanda with the frankest interest, "she's a miracle. If one could be her exactly, absolutely, without the least little mite of change, one would probably be wise to close with it. Otherwise except for anything BUT that I'd rather brazen it out as myself."
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