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"'Why, yes, I says, 'I will, Mis' Loneway, I says. 'What is it? I ask' her. "'There's a baby somewheres downstairs, she says. 'I hear it cryin' sometimes. An' I want you to get it an' bring it up here. "That was a queer thing to ask, because kids isn't soothin' to the sick. But I went off downstairs to the first floor front. The kid she meant belonged to the Tomato Ketchup woman.
I'm just a church kind, who goes regular when I got the clothes, and talks mean about my fellow-members when they make me mad. 'Tain't no set of people which talks more about each other than church members. Seems like 'tis their chief delight. It's a heap easier and more soothin' to go to church and feel you kind of got a permit to say what you oughtn't than to try to live like Christ.
He allus spoke o' Dick in a gentle, soothin' way, makin' every excuse for him; an' this made her think him a noble-minded feller! an' the most natural outcome was for 'm to just bunch their woes an' cling together for comfort. She allus used to sit by his side in the twilight, singin' sorrowful love songs to him, an' once I caught him holdin' her hand.
"I guess I'll ladle ye out some o' that soothin' mixture I bought down at Simpson's t' other day," he said, reflectively. "And I onderstand the boys up on the Bar think the rains will set in airly." But here Nature was omnipotent. Worn by exhaustion, excitement, and fever, and possibly a little affected by Captain Dick's later potion, Roger Catron turned white, and lapsed against the wall.
Or his voice kinder soothin' and patronizin' tellin' the female dove to go out and shirk round on the water and see if it wuz safe for the males in the party to go out. Oh, how nateral that would sound to wimmen, soundin' out through the centuries. And on and on down the long years, Job's voice complainin' of the bitter comfort of his friend's familiar talk.
For her troubles the girl was about equally indebted to her parents an' the Smythe school. Now the Smythe school had been founded by the Reverend Hopkins Smythe, an Englishman who for years had been pastor of the First Congregational Church a soothin' man an' a favorite of the rich New-Yorkers.
And try to influence him right now. God can take care of the boy." "But I can't keep him with me always; and other influences will come, and beat mine down. And I have prayed, but God don't hear my prayer." And I'd say, calm and soothin', "How do you know, Cicely?" And she says, "Why, how I prayed for help when my poor Paul went down to ruin, through the open door of a grog-shop!
You take a nap and I'll watch, although I'm sure no enemy will come." "Reckon I will, Henry. It's peaceful an' soothin' here in the Garden o' Eden, an' ef I dream I'll dream good dreams." He heaped up the leaves in the shape of a bed, giving himself a pillow, and, sinking down upon it luxuriously, soon slept.
"'A gent who comes from a good fam'ly, like you-all, says Old Man Enright to Dan, sort o' soothin' of him, 'oughter be removed above makin' comments on pore old Cape shiftin' his optics. Troo! it's a weakness, but where is the sport who hasn't weaknesses likewise.
"He came around to-night," says she, "to show Auntie some miniatures of the late Alicia. She asked to see them. Look! They are examining one now." Sure enough they were, with their heads close together. And Auntie is pattin' him soothin' on the arm. "Kind of kittenish motions, if you ask me," says I. "She's gazin' at him mushy, too." "I never knew Auntie to be quite so absurd," says Vee.
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