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'But I hear there's new grief like to come to the auld lairdship, said William Lammie, as he sat with an elbow on the tea-table whence Kirsty was removing the crumbs. 'And what may the wisdom o' the country-side be puttin furth the noo? asked David in a tone of good-humoured irony.
The samples of art on the walls struck me as a bit gaudy too, and I was tryin' to guess how it would seem if you had to live in that sort of clutter continual, when out through the slidin' doors from the lib'ry appears Sappy the Constant. "The poor prune!" thinks I. "I wonder if I've got time to work up some scheme of puttin' the skids under him?"
Your brother forbade our mentioning it, but we did not know, until after his death, that his own children were unaware they had an uncle. It seems strange, doesn't it?" "It does to me; so strange that I can't see two lengths ahead. I cal'late Mr. Graves told you how I felt about it?" "Yes. That is, he said you were very much surprised." "That's puttin' it mild enough.
"The simple fact is that our ruse was successful," said an outside passenger. "They waited to see our lights on the ridge, and, not seeing them, missed us until we had passed. That's my opinion." "You aint puttin' any price on that opinion, air ye?" enquired Bill, politely. "No." "'Cos thar's a comic paper in 'Frisco pays for them things, and I've seen worse things in it." "Come off!
"Don't say I told you," says I, "but they're thinkin' of puttin' in left-handed straps for south-paw passengers." Izzy looks pained and disgusted. He's got a serious mind, Izzy has, and if you could take a thumbprint of his brain, it would be all fractions and dollar signs. "I have to meet my cousin Abie Moss," says he, edgin' away.
Oh, no, I'm not "puttin' on frills," I am only objecting with all my might and main to a term, as well as to the contemptible creature indicated by it, masher. In a certain school, long ago, there was a very gentle, tender-hearted teacher, who was also the comforter and peacemaker of her flock.
Diggle is too thick by half. I never could make out why Diggle diddled you about that supercargo business; he don't mean you no kindness, you may be sure; and when you see two villains like him and Parmiter puttin' their heads together, look out for squalls, that's what I say." Desmond was inclined to laugh; the idea seemed preposterous. "Why are you so suspicious of Mr. Diggle?" he said.
I s'ze to myself, 'Nows the time to be up and ready. So I was puttin' on the clothes I'd took off, and right there on the bed, like it had been there all the time, was two great big eyes turnin' from green to red, and flame comin' out of them like it does out of coals when the wind blows." "Was it a cat?" whispered Robert Day, hoping since Zene was safe, that it was not.
"A girl can't make expairaments the way I do, because if one of these good ole bumblebees or hornets of mine was to give 'em a little sting, once in a while, while they was catchin' 'em and puttin' 'em in a jar, all they'd know how to do'd be to holler and run home to their mamma. Nobody with any gumption minds a few little stings after you put mud on 'em."
I've only been a married man fower days, 'account of poor old feyther deein, and puttin' it off. Here be a weddin' party broide and broide's-maid, and the groom if a mun dean't 'joy himsel noo, when ought he, hey? Drat it all, thot's what I want to know.
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