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Then there was a silence. Anderson got his hat and went out through the store. The old clerk was fussing over some packages on the counter. "That young lady came for her hat," he remarked. "Did she?" "Yes. She's a pretty-spoken girl. Her sister's goin' to git married before long, I hear." Anderson stopped and stared at him. "No; this is the one." "No; her sister. I had it straight."
No such pledge will be required by them proprietors; and, as to myself, if it had not been for this paper," drawing from his pocket, and flattening on his knees as he spoke, the slip I had before observed, then glancing at me sharply, "I could never have believed that such a pretty-spoken, pretty-behaved young creetur could have been non com. But pshaw! what am I talking about?
I don't think Mrs. Flint quite liked it; we all questioned her, me, and Miss Slowcum, and Mrs. Mortlock, and we said, 'At any rate give us their address, Mrs. Flint we take an interest in them they are pretty-spoken young ladies, and they were a credit to the establishment. But Mrs. Flint only frowned and bit her lips, and colored. Then Mrs.
Jerome herself could not deny that Janet was a very pretty-spoken woman: 'She aly's says, she niver gets sich pikelets' as mine nowhere; I know that very well other folks buy 'em at shops thick, unwholesome things, you might as well eat a sponge. The sight of little Lizzie often stirred in Janet's mind a sense of the childlessness which had made a fatal blank in her life.
Whereon we laugh, and the little lady, being pretty-spoken, says she wishes she was Mistress Wynne's cat, and while my aunt dries her eyes goes on to say, "Here is a note for you to dine with us and Mr. Washington, and I was bid write it, and so I did on the back of the queen of hearts for a compliment, madam," and with this she drops a curtsey.
It was very lucky, for I would not have had poor James think himself slighted upon any account; and I am sure she will make a very good servant: she is a civil, pretty-spoken girl; I have a great opinion of her.
I'll take a pattern of that lunar moth you pinned on the curtain yesterday." Miss Hollis smiled in spite of herself. "You have some very ingenious ideas and some very pretty thoughts, Mrs. Bascom, do you know it?" "It's the first time I ever heard tell of it," said Diadema cheerfully. "Lovey was the pretty-spoken, pretty-appearing one; I was always plain and practical.
A tender-hearted woman to the poor, she is, as iver lived; an' as pretty-spoken a woman as you need wish to talk to. Yes! I'd al'ys a likin' for Dempster an' his wife, spite o' iverything. But as soon as iver I heared o' that dilegate business, I says, says I, that man shall hev no more to do wi' my affairs. It may put me t' inconvenience, but I'll encourage no man as pessecutes religion.
Plunkett" for grandma did not like them to use the village nickname said Cricket, after a moment, "and Auntie Jean will be here to-morrow." "An' it's a pretty-spoken lady she is," answered Marm Plunkett. "But it's Mis' Maxwell that I allers wants ter see most. When'll she git to see me agin?" Cricket coloured furiously. "Grandma's lame, now," she said, speaking up bravely.
"Woman!" returned Deborah, with an angry snort; "she was a lady, if there ever was one. We don't see her sort every day, I can tell you that, Miss Esther; a pretty-spoken, dainty creature, with long fair curls, that one longed to twine round one's fingers." "She was pretty, then?" I hazarded more timidly. "Pretty! she was downright beautiful.
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