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I stood fair 'n' square in the doorway, 'n' 'f he was 'xpectin' to see me look happy over havin' a compliment paid me, 't was one more time 's he did n't get what he 'xpected. That was what he called it, 'payin' me a compliment, 'n' I mus' say 's it struck me 's pretty high-flown language f'r jus' simply wantin' to name a thirteenth baby after the richest woman in the c'mmunity.
Sleepin' in he tent too, s'pose. Hit too late now, Miss Lou, ter do anyting fo' mawnin'." The girl thought deeply a few moments and then muttered, "Shame on them both!" "Dar now, Miss Lou, you doan reckermember dey payin' you a big compelment." "I shall tell them to their faces how I regard this outrage rather. Still, for their sakes, as well as my own, I will keep the affair quiet if I can.
The estate is large, the investments are, doubtless, many and varied, and the labor of looking into and investigating them may require some technical skill and knowledge of finance. Yes." "Um-hm.... Well, I judge that that kind of skill and knowledge could be hired, if a feller felt like payin' fair wages; hey?" "Oh, yes, yes.
"I'm afraid I can't settle with you just at present," she said further, with some effort, "you can call some other time when you are passing. Will that do? and is it weighed?" "It is, miss, and I'll not say a word about the payin'! Six pound and a 'alf, and Woods gone agen I weighed it myself." "Oh! I am sorry to hear that," said Charlotte. "Your husband gives you a great deal of trouble.
I can't see how a man gets anything but cheated when he buys such things. It's funny, ain't it? Take my boss an' his horses. He owns women, too. He might a-owned you, just because he's got the price. An', Saxon, you was made for fancy shirtwaists an' all that, but, honest to God, I can't see you payin' for them that way. It'd be a crime " He broke off abruptly and reined in the horses.
Women was the pioneers in it, an' now it's worked up to be payin', men has took it over and think they have done a stroke. Not so far back a man would consider hisself disgraced that knew one kind of fowls from another, he would be thought a old molly-coddle.
I must say he's doin' better 'n he ever done before, but he's as full of airs as a music-box, an' that there Maria, a paternizing me like I hadn't been payin' her rent all these years. But I kin get along without them. It's little Chick I'm a worryin' about." "What's the matter with Chick?" "Matter with him?" Myrtella turned on her fiercely. "Ever' thing is the matter with him.
"I opine this ar' a free country, ain't it, marm, more or less? When a feller kerflummuxes rite down onter a payin' streek I opine he's goin' ter roost that till he gits reddy to vamoose, ain't he?" "But, sir, my brother was the first to discover this spot and build us a home here, and he claims that all belongs to him." "He do? more or less consider'bly less of more than more uv less, eh?
Before I went any further I had to settle that point, and while I ain't strong for payin' visits through the iron bars I was up early next mornin' and down presentin' my pass. "You cub lawyers give me shootin' pains in the neck!" grumbles the turnkey that tows me in. "How'd you guess I wa'n't the new District Attorney?" says I. "Here, have a perfecto for that pain."
I waited till he'd begun to pull his wares out and make a fine speech about 'em, and then I jest walked up to him, cool and composed, and give him his choice between payin' me good money for his bogus gold or hearin' me make a speech; and you may jest bet your best hat he paid up quicker'n winkin'. Perhaps I'd ought to have warned folks ag'in' him as it was, but I had a notion he'd save his tricks till he got to another neighborhood; and it turned out I was right.
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