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Not on yer whiskers, he didn't. He jist shoved them scads what hed been given him careless-like down inter his coat pocket, an' faced Mister Manager. 'Not a dirty penny, Albrecht, he said, sorter soft-like; 'I 'm a-goin' to take whut yer owe me out of yer right now. An', by gory, gents, he sure did.
"I mean that it looks better here in my cabin than it ever did on city walls." "Why?" "Well I don't know. Contrast, perhaps." Tharon stood a moment thinking. "Perhaps," she answered slowly, "yes, perhaps. I guess that's why you seem so diff'rent to me. Jim Last used to say that was why th' Valley was so soft-like an' lovely, contrasted by th' Rockface."
'No, she says, all pretty and soft-like; 'all I want you to do is to watch what I don't do!" With slightly nervous fingers the Traveling Salesman reached up and tugged at his necktie as though his collar were choking him suddenly.
"I calls ter her sorter soft-like, an' dang me ef she didn't come walkin' right up ter me, not a mite erfeered. She made a funny leetle bow, held out her chubby hand an' says, 'How do ye do, big man. Hev ye seen my pappa an' mamma?
Oh well, I've had my little shindig, and it's just as well we both came through okay them as 'fights an' runs away, may live to fight another day, that old sayin' has it which is sure a true thing. Hey! what's this mean seems like I didn't come through as soft-like as I figgered I had blood on my hand, yep, an' on my face ditto.
Where is she? Are you sure?" "And sartain, sir. Only t' other night, as I sat a-smoking my pipe on the lawn, yonder, she comes out to me, and nestles down under my lee like she used to years ago. 'Jerry, dear, says she, 'er voice all low and soft-like, 'look at the moon, how beautiful it is! says she, and she give a sigh.
The poor creetur see him, and could hardly walk to meet him. “Oh, Harry!” she says, “that it should have come to this; and all for my sake,” says she, putting her hand upon his shoulder. So he puts his arm round her pretty little waist, and leading her gently a little way into the room, so that he might be able to shut the door, he says, so kind and soft-like—“Why, Kate,” says he—’
I called for him soft-like and got no answer. Down to the burying-ground I went and set on his headstone. It was the quietest place you ever see. The clouds was scudding overhead; the wind was sighing among the leaves; and through the trees the moon was gleaming so clear and distinct you could almost read the monnyments.
Soak me if you want to, Alan but everything I knew she got out of me between Chitina and Fairbanks, and she got it in such a sure-fire nice way that I'd have eat soap out of her hand if she'd offered it to me. Then, sort of sly and soft-like, she began asking questions about John Graham and I woke up." "John Graham!" Alan repeated the name. "Yes, John Graham. And I had a lot to tell.
Canby, an' if the matter goes no further I'd like to say, sir, that I've no fancy for such doin's in a lady." "Nor I, Christopher. You heard what she said?" "I couldn't 'elp, some of it. 'Twas about the fight, sir. 'But you lost, says she again and again when 'e speaks to 'er soft-like. 'You lost.
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