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I ain't goin' to have ye spendin' your money when ye can just as well come home. Where ye goin' now?" Mr. Peaslee was putting on his coat. "Well," he said, "I kind o' thought I'd step over to Ed'ards's. I thought mebbe he'd be interested." "Goin' to brag, are ye?" was his wife's remorseless comment. "Much good it'll do ye, talkin' to that hatchet-face.
It's better to marry a man with sense, nor to go takin' up with some young whipper-snapper that would be thinkin' of nothin' but spendin' money and carryin' on with nonsense." "He's an ould widower," cried Roseen, wrinkling up her little nose with an expression of disgust. "Well," said Peter, "an' a good thing too; you'll come in for all the beautiful dresses and jewels and things the first Mrs.
"That be so! That comes of gittin' a lawyer what's got stuff in his head, ye see, Lem. I told ye that when ye said as how we could get them kids without spendin' no money." "You will have to use great care, both of you," Everett urged, "and it only means for you to take the girl, as you first planned, to Ithaca; and I will come after her.
Dooley at his elbow had not been loudly whispering to Mrs. Dooley "Colleges? Sure that's just talk he has be way of an excuse for keepin' it. A great notion he has of spendin' it on Colleges. He knows better, bedad." Mr. Dooley, who was rather like several sorts of rodent animals in the face, wore a smile at his own penetration. "I dunno but it might look ugly," Dan suddenly said.
"Faith, spendin' money's terrible easy." She put the penny in the queen's out-stretched hand. "Do I get a piece o' paper sayin' I paid the money on it?" she demanded, remembering her responsibility. This time the queen shook her head. "No; I give you only my promise; but a promise made across a primrose ring is never broken." "And Toby?" Peter asked it anxiously. "You must leave him behind.
"He ain't spendin' his money, that's all. He's a-savin' of it." "Oh, for the heathen," surmised Pollyanna. "How perfectly splendid! That's denying yourself and taking up your cross. I know; father told me."
It do seem nateral to me, for when our young niggars go sparkin' and spendin' evenings, dey most commonly marries. It stand to reason. But, Massa, I is bery bad indeed wid dis dreadful pain in my infernal parts I is indeed. Oh," said he, smackin' his lips, and drainin' his glass, "dat is def to a white man, but life to a niggar; dat is sublime.
You don't realize how free an' easy an' beautiful everything is until you're busted." Smiling, his odd face almost boyish behind its ambush of hair, he saw the grim look in Alan's eyes and about his jaws. He caught hold of the other's arm and shook it. "Alan, I mean it!" he declared. "That's why I think money is a fool thing. It ain't spendin' money that makes me happy.
Was you figurin' on investin' a little of it now?" "Yes, suh; I was." "About how much did you think of spendin' fur a beginnin'?" O'Day squinted his eyes, his lips moving in silent calculation. "Well, suh," he said at length, "I could use ez much ez a silver dollar. But, of course, sence " "That sounds kind of moderate to me," broke in Judge Priest.
"I say, Joe," said one, "blamed ef it 'taint too bad; you and me spendin' our time this way! The ole woman's mos' broke 'r heart over me t'day. Sh' said I ought be the s'port 'f her ole dage, 'stid 'f boozin' roun' thish yer way. 'S so! Tell you, Joe, 's so! Blam'd 'f 'taint. Hey? W'at y' say? Hey?" "Of course 'tis, Ben," growled the other; "we all know that.
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