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All the girls do East," she added, pouting. "Yes," the Elder agreed thoughtfully, doubting whether he should follow her lead eastwards, "I reckon that's so. I'll see about it right off, Loo. I oughter hev thought of it before. But now, right off," and as he spoke he laid his large hand with studied carelessness on her shoulder he was afraid that an intentional caress might be inopportune.
The assistant looked at him with a grim, half-credulous, half-scornful smile. "Have it your own way," he said, "but I oughter tell ye, old man, that I'm the warehouse clerk, and I remember YOU. I'm here for that purpose. But as that thar valise is bought and paid for by somebody else and given to you, it's nothing more to me. Take it or leave it."
When a man lays off for to keep up wi' the wimmiu folks, he kin thes make up his min' that he'll have to git in a dark corner an' scratch his head many a time when he oughter be a-diggin' for his livin'. They'll addle 'im thereckly." "Well," said Woodward, with an air of determination, "I'm going back with you and hear what Miss Sis has to say. Sit down.
'I'd oughter known a chill with half an eye; an' sartain this beats all I ever saw, With that she went over an' tuk the girl in her arms, an' sot her on the bench, sayin', 'You pore honey, you! Whar'd you come from? At this the leetle one began to cry tried to speak, then started to cry again.
"And what do you call philandering?" "Well; I reckon you and she oughter know," returned Richelieu, with a precocious air. "Certainly," said Mainwaring, with a faint smile. Richelieu really was like Minty. There was a long silence. This young Englishman was becoming exceedingly uninteresting. Richelieu felt that he was gaining neither profit nor amusement, and losing time. "I'm going," he said.
"The young lady is SHE comfortable?" said Jeff, accepting his aunt's previous remark as confirmatory. "Ez well ez enny critter marked by the finger of the Lord with gallopin' consumption kin be, I reckon. And she, ez oughter be putting off airthly vanities, askin' for a lookin'-glass!
It's obvious as stars on a cl'ar night, they never means fight a little bit. I abhors dooels, an' cowers from the mere idee. But, after all, business is business, an' when folks fights 'em the objects of the meetin' oughter be blood.
"No ..." "Nor do any good?" "No." "No, siree, it don't. He'd oughter stop it. What does he do with them things when he gets 'em finished?" "Patents them." "And then what?" "Nothin' that I know of." "That's it; nothing nor ever will. Well, he's been getting money from me for those patents I thought at fust there might be somethin' in 'em but he won't any more. I'd oughter had more sense."
"But in the first place, do you know anything about the Home Guards?" "Being one of 'em I oughter know all about 'em," was the reply. "But not being pizen enough agin the Unionists to suit 'em, I have sorter got it into my head that they are keeping some things from me. All the same, I know enough to be sartin sure that they mean harm to you."
He's settin' into a poker game. "Steve never oughter gambled none. He is a good cow-boy splendid round-up hand an' can do his day's work with rope or iron in a brandin' pen with anybody; but comin' right to cases, he don't know no more about playin' poker than he does about preachin'. Actooally, he'd back two pa'r like thar's no record of their bein' beat.
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