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They're buildin' into Rubio City from the East now." The Irishman became excited. "An' this man that knows me this engineer is he a fine, big, up-standin' man wid brown eyes an' the look av a king?" "I ain't never seen no kings," drawled Tex, "but the rest of it sure fits him." "Well, fwhat do ye think av that? 'Tis the Seer himsilf, or I'm not the son av me own mither.
'e's mad for 'er, 'e is 'e'd ruin 'isself, body and soul, for 'er, 'e would, but I ain't goin' to ofer no more; no woman as ever breathed no matter 'ow 'andsome an' up-standin' is worth more 'n a 'undred guineas it ain't as if she was a blood-mare an' I'm done!" "Then I wish you good-day!" "But just think a 'undred guineas is a fortun'!" "It is!" said I.
"Y'see, what I meant was," he said, with a troubled frown of intense concentration, "maybe you know about kids. I didn't mean offense, I sure didn't. Everybody knows our Birdie to be jest a straight, up-standin', proper gal, who wouldn't hurt nobody, nor nuthin', 'cep' it was a buzzin' fly around the supper hash.
"She's like a lot o' women nowadays, I guess. They doan't want to be married." "Perhaps nobody 'as wanted to marry 'em, dad!" said his elder son, grinning at his own stale jest. Betts shook a meditative head. "Noa yo'll not explain it that way," he said mildly. "Some of 'em's good-looking Miss Henderson 'ersel', by token. A very 'andsome up-standin' young woman is Miss Henderson."
So you see I was qualified to reasshore Aunt Sharley. I told her all the available information on the subject proved the young gentleman in question was not only a mighty clever, up-standin', manly young feller, but that where he hailed from he belonged to the quality folks, which really was the p'int she seemed most anxious about.
Mary Rose is a child but if she takes after her mother's fam'ly, an' I know in my heart she does, she'll be a big up-standin' girl, a girl anyone 'd take for fourteen. Maybe fifteen. Why, when her mother was twelve she weighed a hundred an' twenty-five pounds. I've known women of fifty that didn't weigh that!" triumphantly. "Don't you worry, Larry, dear. I've got it all planned out.
"Lord! theer bean't two other such fine, up-standin', likely-lookin' chaps in all the South Country as you two chaps be no, nor such smiths! it du warm my old 'eart to look at 'ee. Puts me in mind o' what I were myself ages an' ages ago.
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