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Miranda grumbled without ceasing during the progress of her hasty toilet, blaming everybody in the universe for the afflictions she had borne and was to bear during the day; she even castigated the Missionary Board that had sent the Burches to Syria, and gave it as her unbiased opinion that those who went to foreign lands for the purpose of saving heathen should stay there and save 'em, and not go gallivantin' all over the earth with a passel o' children, visitin' folks that didn't want 'em and never asked 'em.
I say, if Gracie Van Horne hadn't happened to meet him, wanderin' around, crazy as a coot, and toted him back " "Gracie Van Horne! Godfreys mighty! She she met him? Where? Down to Peters's grove, was it?" "Peters's grove! No. What on earth made you think 'twas there? She'd been visitin' Keziah Coffin at the parsonage, and when she come out on the main road she heard him aravin' down the lane.
"I reckon ye've done heered all I kin tell ye," said Bas, gravely. "I'd done been over ter ther furriner's house some siv'ral times bekase he war a neighbour of mine an' he seemed a mighty enjoyable sort of body. He war visitin' at old man Harper's las' night an' I met up with him on ther highway.
I was her maid, an' went wid her jes as Mahs' Robert wants you ter go 'long wid Miss Rob. He ain't gwine to furgit how they did in de ole times when de ladies went visitin' in dere kerridges fur to stay free, four days. Aun' Patsy were pow'ful ole den, but she didn't die soon 'nuf, an' ole Miss Keswick she kunjer her, an' now she can't die at all." "Neber die!" ejaculated Peggy.
William's kind o' slow-moulded; but there, any William's better than none when you get to be Mis' Martin's age." "Hadn't she any children?" I asked. "Quite a number," replied Mrs. Todd grandly, "but some are gone and the rest are married and settled. She never was a great hand to go about visitin'. I don't know but Mis' Martin might be called a little peculiar.
But the deedies hed all gone ter bed, an' the old hen war hoverin' of 'em, an' I didn't want ter 'sturb 'em," said Rufe considerately. "So I tole Pig-wigs ter meet me at the tanyard early, an' I'd fetch him one. An' ez his granny war goin' visitin' her merried daughter, she let him ride behind her on thar sorrel mare ez fur ez the tanyard. So he got hyar 'fore I did.
Miss Margery paused a moment at the door of the Callahans' neighbor, the 'nice colored lady. "Do you happen to know," she inquired, "where Mrs. Callahan was last Thursday afternoon?" "She was visitin', lady," was the ready answer. "She took the biggest children to see a lady she sews for that's give them a lot of things. I had them three youngest children under my feet all afternoon.
Now, he's gwine ter know w'at it is ter eat co'n bread en merlasses once mo', en wuk fum daylight ter da'k, en ter hab a oberseah dribin' 'im fum one day's een' ter de udder. I means dat I sont wo'd ter Jeff dat Sunday dat you wuz gwine ter be ober ter Mars' Marrabo's visitin' dat ebenin', en you want 'im ter meet you down by de crick on de way home en go de rest er de road wid you.
Well, I've been asked to visit at three places Greenwich, Piping Rock, and here in town. How would that be?" "Not so bad," says I, "specially that last proposition. I'm strong for your visitin' here in town." "Perhaps we shall hear to-night whether I'm to go or not," says Vee. "They are to hold some sort of meeting here everyone who has been asked on the cruise. There's someone now." "It's Mr.
Ted stared at her a moment, his mouth open ludicrously. "Why I don't know," he articulated, painfully. "I never thought of that." Birdie snorted defiantly. "I thought so. D'ye know," sociably, "I was visitin' with my aunt Mis' Mulcahy last evenin'." There was a quick rustle of silks from Minnie Wenzel's direction. "Say, look here " began Jo Haley, impatiently. "Shut up, Jo Haley!" snapped Birdie.
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