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From out the gray dusk ahead appeared the shadowy outline of a rugged promontory jutting far out into the sea. "Keep close in, Tom. Our last string's dead ahead, off Peeble Beach. When you get around the point swing on the outside of Coward Rocks and give her all she'll stand." She walked slowly about the deck with her eyes fixed on the wave-washed shore-line.
"Peeble are not ferry much indrested in tees short-time frangizes," observed Mr. Gotloeb once, when Cowperwood was talking the matter over with him. He wanted Haeckelheimer & Co. to underwrite the whole issue. "Dey are so insigure. Now if you couldt get, say, a frangize for fifty or one hunnert years or something like dot your stocks wouldt go off like hot cakes.
"Any wher," says an ancient writer, "after yow pass a myll without the tonne, the countrey is barren lyke, the hills craigy, the plaines full of marishes and mosses, the feilds are covered with heather or peeble stons, the come feilds mixt with thes bot few.
I never saw any gray ones." Herr Favre shook his head, much amused. "There are NO white ones," he said. "There is no white ANYTHING in your city; no white window-curtains, no white house, no white peeble!" He pointed upward. "Smoke!" Then he sniffed the air and clasped his nose between forefinger and thumb. "Smoke! Smoke ef'rywhere. Smoke in your insites." He tapped his chest.
"I dinna ken muckle about the law," answered Mrs. Howden; "but I ken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament men o' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon."
"They must need many, too!" said the visitor. "New hats, new all things, but nothing white. In Munchen we could not do it; we are a safing peeble." "Where's that?" "In Munchen. You say 'Munich." "Well, I never been to Munich, but I took in the Mediterranean trip, and I tell you, outside o' some right good scenery, all I saw was mighty dirty and mighty shiftless and mighty run-down at the heel.
"If it wa'n't fer me she'd git in time as narrer as them seven-day Babtists over to Peeble they call 'em the 'narrer Babtists. You've heard on 'em, hain't you, Polly?" "No," she said, without looking up from her plate, "I never heard on 'em, an' I don't much believe you ever did neither." "What!" exclaimed David, "You lived here goin' on seventy year an' never heard on 'em?"
"I dinna ken muckle about the law," answered Mrs. Howden; "but I ken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament men o' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon."
"David Harum!" she cried, "I ain't within ten year " "Hold on," he protested, "don't throw that teacup. I didn't say you was, I only said you was goin' on an' about them people over to Peeble, they've got the name of the 'narrer Babtists' because they're so narrer in their views that fourteen on 'em c'n sit, side an' side, in a buggy."
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