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"Take it easy, son," he advised him pleasantly. "You won't get anywhere with Old Crow. Guess again." "No," said Dick, oblivious of the flippancy of this, "we sha'n't get anywhere. We haven't enough data." "Now," said Raven, coming up from his lounging posture, "I've got to hustle. You run along and we'll go out somewhere to-night: dine, if you want to, and drop in at a show.
"No; I sha'n't let her," Theodora answered bluntly. "Don't worry, Billy; we shall get on, I know. Have you ever seen her?" "Once, when she was in the knitted-sock stage of development. She wasn't at all pretty then." "How old is she now?" "Hear what her father saith." And Mr. Farrington took a letter from his breast pocket.
It took fust money, that did," said Mr. Harum with a confirmatory shake of the head. "Wa'al," he resumed, "in about a few minutes back she come, lickity-cut, an' pulled up in front of me. 'C'n you send my sister's hoss home? she says, 'an' then I sha'n't have to change agin.
"There will be nothing of that sort at Salt-house," Cecil de la Borne declared eagerly. "You see, I sha'n't have any guests at all except just yourselves. Don't you think that would be best?" "I do, indeed," the Princess assented, "and mind, you are not to make any special preparations for us.
Show me, so I sha'n't get cracks over my head with the big key. Hallelujah, amen." She didn't know, innocent child, what this "Hallelujah, amen," meant; but she remembered that Uncle Simon always ended in that way, and she supposed it had something important to do with the prayer.
"I sha'n't have the new story ready by November," he explained to his publisher, on the 1st of October, "for I am never good for anything in the literary way till after the first autumnal frost, which has somewhat such an effect on my imagination that it does on the foliage here about me-multiplying and brightening its hues."
"I'll prove it the best investment you ever made." He didn't smile Jabez Potter was not one of the smiling kind; but his face relaxed and his eyes twinkled a little. "I sha'n't look for cent. per cent. interest on my money, Niece Ruth," he said, and stumped into the house in his heavy boots.
Mother Tadman will march, of course, between this and my wedding-day. I sha'n't want her when I've a wife to keep house for me." "Of course not," said the bailiff. "Relations are always dangerous about a place ready to make mischief at every hand's turn." "O, Mr. Whitelaw, you won't turn her out, surely your own flesh and blood, and after so many years of service.
Gresham. "Yes, sir, quite right." "Then, by this calculation, I find I could, for less than half the money your uniforms would cost, purchase for each of you boys a warm great- coat, which you will want, I have a notion, this winter upon the Downs." "Oh, sir," said Hal, with an alarmed look; "but it is not winter YET; it is not cold weather YET. We sha'n't want greatcoats YET."
Only the great golden building, crowned by its double church, most famous of all the shrines of Italy, glowed steadily, amid the alternating gleam and gloom fit guardian of that still living and burning memory which is St. Francis. "We shall be happy here, sha'n't we?" said Diana, stealing a hand into her companion's. "And we needn't hurry away." She drew a long breath.
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