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But for some reason the old man came close to her and put his arms about her bulbous shoulders. "There, there, 'Mira! don't you cry about it. You sartainly have got a good heart. An' I won't say nothin' agin' your savin' for the gal. Mebbe she'll need your savin's, too. Broxton Day is too free-handed, and he'll have his ups and downs again, p'r'aps.
She pointed her finger at the old man, who had now gotten into his Sunday suit and had a bandage on his head. "Now, tell me, Dusty Miller, what do you think about girls being of some use? Isn't Ruth as good as any boy?" "She sartainly kep' me from drownin' as good as any boy goin'," admitted the old man. "But that was only chancey, as ye might say.
"Lira, lira, la, la, la! lira, lara, la, la, la! augh! whaugh! bother!" "So my good-nature does not please you, Bunting." "Oh, Sir, it does not sinnify: we shall have our throats cut that's all. "What! you don't believe the story." "I? Bless your honour, I am no fool." "Bunting!" "Sir." "You forget yourself." "Augh!" "So you don't think I should have lent the horse?" "Sartainly not."
But I promised Abe I'd stay by the ship till he come home again." Louise introduced her uncle to Mr. Bane; but during the bustle of getting into the skiff and pushing off she overlooked the fact that Lawford and the actor were not introduced. "Bring us home a mess of tautog," Cap'n Amazon shouted. "I sartainly do fancy blackfish when they're cooked right.
I heard Tugg whispering to himself about them as he watched the half-naked paddlers urging them toward the schooner: "Ugly mugs. From up river. Come three or four hundred miles in them canoes, mebbe. Wisht I knew what has happened the Professor. They sartainly have cleaned our headquarters, or they wouldn't have displaced that beacon lantern." Then he turned to urge Pedro.
"Look what this old place looked like when she come!" "She sartainly has stirred us all up." "An' look at Marty!" "I got to give her credit," admitted Mr. Day. "She's made a man of Marty. Done more for him than the school done." "But it was her started him to goin' to school ag'in." "So I tell ye," agreed Mr. Day again.
"To think of his pretending love for one like Mabel, too, when he felt none." "That was bad, sartainly; the fellow must have had Mingo blood in his veins. The man that deals unfairly by a woman can be but a mongrel, lad; for the Lord has made them helpless on purpose that we may gain their love by kindness and sarvices.
So, says I, stranger captain, sais I, is all these forks and spoons, and plates and covers, and urns, and what nots, rael genuwine solid silver, the clear thing, and no mistake. 'Sartainly, said he, 'we have nothin' but silver here. He did, upon my soul, just as cool, as if it was all true; well you can't tell a military what he sais ain't credible, or you have to fight him.
Makes Sallie look dreadfully growed up," sighed the troubled woman. "I sartainly do hate to see my little girl change into a woman so quick." "That's what my woman says," agreed Snubbins. "Celia's 'bout growed up, she thinks. But I reckon if her mother laid her across her lap like she uster a few years back, she could nigh about slap most of the foolishness out o' Celia.
Mogue shook it, but added, "Never mind, I'll think it over again, and when I'm made up on it, maybe I'll tell you. Don't we meet on this day week?" "Sartainly, will you come?" "I intend it, for the truth is, Misther Magrath, that the Millstone must be broke; that I may die in pace, but it must, an' any one that stands in the way of it must suffer. May I be happy, but they must."
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