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It may be down towards the foot among the discards; but you're in the running. Not that I'm thinkin' of havin' a fam'ly crest worked on my shirt sleeves, or that I'm beginnin' to sympathize with the lower clawsses. Nothing like that! Only it does help, when Marjorie, the boss's married daughter, has planned some social doin's, to get an invite like a reg'lar guy. What do you know too? It's dance!
"Not a reg'lar gale, 'tain't," he said. "Alongside of some gales I've seen this one ain't nothin' but a tops'l breeze. Do you remember the storm the night the Portland was lost, Martha?" Miss Phipps, who had come in from the kitchen with a can of coffee in her hand, shuddered. "Indeed I do, Zacheus," she said; "don't remind me of it." "Why, dear me, was it worse than this one?" asked Galusha.
He lifted a face of adoration to the misty wonder of the bare trees, whose tracery of twigs filled Madison Square; to the Metropolitan Tower, with its vast upward stretch toward the ruddy sky of the city's winter night. All these mysteries he knew and sang. What he said was: "Gee, those trees look like a reg'lar picture!... The Tower just kind of fades away. Don't it?"
"Did he look like not like YOU?" says the woman with abhorrence. "Oh, not so bad as me," says Jo. "I'm a reg'lar one I am! You didn't know him, did you?" "How dare you ask me if I knew him?" "No offence, my lady," says Jo with much humility, for even he has got at the suspicion of her being a lady. "I am not a lady. I am a servant."
Stanner understood that I had no desire for his company elsewhere, he would hardly venture to intrude upon me in my house, and certainly not after " "Ef you're alluding to the Vigilantes shakin' you and Zeenie up at Hennicker's, you can't make ME responsible for that. I'm here now on business you understand reg'lar business. Ef you want to see the papers yer ken.
"Seems like a reg'lar tunnel," muttered the sailor-man, who was creeping along awkwardly because of his wooden leg. The rocks, too, hurt his knees. For nearly half an hour the three moved slowly along the tunnel, which made many twists and turns and sometimes slanted downward and sometimes upward.
"Only to see the good aunt sometimes." "Uhuh. I kind of wish your aunt was hangin' out at the Concho, though. This here ain't a reg'lar stoppin'-place for me." "You go away?" queried Anita. "I reckon I got to after what I said up there to the house. Yes, I'm goin' back to feed me pigs and Chance and the hens. I set up housekeepin' since I seen you.
My credit aint good, and I haint no money in the bank." "How much does it cost?" "Fifteen cents, in the top gallery." "Can you see there?" "Yes, it's rather high up; but a feller with good eyes can see all he wants to there." "I'll tell you what I'll do, Dick. You have been a good friend to me, and I'll take you at my expense." "You will? To-night?" "Yes." "You're a reg'lar trump.
I thought that lightnin'-rod man had glve him a lesson he'd remember; but no, he must go an' make a reg'lar-" She subsided in a tumult of banging pans, which helped her out in the matter of expression and reduced her to a grim sort of quiet. Uncle Ethan went about the house like a convict on shipboard. Once she caught him looking out of the window. "I should think you'd feel proud o' that."
And Liddy, whose dream had always been to do "reg'lar city dress-makin', with helpers an' plates an' furnish the findin's at the shop," and whose lot instead had been to cut and fit "just the durable kind," was blithely at work night and day on Mis' Postmaster Sykes's tobacco-brown net.
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