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An' whan ye was tired o' 't, ye cud jist rin awa' to Lossie Hoose, an' hide ye i' the how there for a cheenge. I wad like fine to hae the sortin' o' 't for yer lordship." "I daresay!" said the marquis. "Let's find a nice place for our luncheon, papa, and then we can sit down and hear Malcolm's story," said Florimel.
Work ain't his kind. It's a pleasin' sight to see him lyin' round thar to the post-office an' the boys a-waitin' on to him, doin' his tradin' for him, an' sortin' the mail when it comes in. They're ready enough to do it jest to hear him gas." And so they were.
Yet it seemed to her that now, at last, she might break down and cry. The tone of olden friendliness was hard to bear, when no other voices answered. She could endure the silent house, but not the intercourse of a life so sadly changed. "There!" continued Mrs. Pike, with a nod, "I guess I know! You're tired to pieces with this pickin' and sortin', an' you're comin' over to dinner, both on ye.
Ody's thoughts were for the moment running on the police, a couple of whom he had lately espied at a short distance coming across the bog. "Well, if you wanted to see the two of thim," said his aunt, raising her voice as he began to drive Rory on, "there they are, just at the back of her place, sortin' the stuff he's after gettin' her on the bog. He brought her the full of the pitaty-creel.
She got huffy and went off and married the waiter. "We can't rise all at once from our station in life, can we? Like as not, when we get into our new house and put on style ourselves with our drags and our dogs, I'll be sortin' out letters in my dreams and handin' them through a dream window to the people. This girl is a born dish-washer. She clung to her station.
And my emotions all of the time wuz what no man might number, and as for the size of 'em, there hain't no use of talkin' about sortin' 'em out, or weighin' 'em no steel yards on earth could weigh the little end on 'em, let alone weighin' the hull caboodle of 'em. No Rasfodist that ever rasfodized could do justice to the transcendent grandeur that shone out on every side of us.
When the fall round-up came, Barbie surprised every one by sayin' she wasn't goin' to do any of the ridin', but would wait until after we'd got all the sortin' out an' brandin' done, an' would then come out an' see the whole herd in a bunch.
Pauline toiled bravely over the endless array of pinafores which the youthful Hardings managed to make unpresentable in a week. 'Monotony even in gingham! she murmured; for Polly's were all of pink check, Lemuel's blue, and Leander's a dull brown. 'Saves sortin', had been the brief response, when she had suggested varying the colours in order to cultivate the æsthetic instinct in the wearers.
"Well, ye saas, I had to crawl up to 'em mighty careful, for if you step upon a stick no bigger than a tooth-pick, yees are sortin to wake up a slaapin' copper-skin " "So they were Indians, then," interrupted Elwood somewhat impatiently. "Do yes be aisy now, and not be interruptin' of me, and yer observations and questions which ain't naaded in this case.
Wife, she had drawed a stool close-t up to my knee, an' set there sortin' out the little yaller rings ez they'd dry out on his head, an' when he said that I thess looked at her an' we both looked at him, an' says I, "Wife," says I, "ef they's anything in heavenly looks an' behavior, I b'lieve that christenin' is started to take on him a'ready." An' I b'lieve it had.
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