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'He'll be here any time now. "There was a cackle from the kitchen windows. I never said nothin'. She'd made her nest; now let her roost on it. "But at twelve Butler hadn't hove in sight. Every hand, male and female, on the place, that wa'n't busy, was hangin' around the back of the hotel, waitin' and watchin' and ridiculin' and havin' a high time.
I'm well, I like to call myself his caddy. I follow him round, and hold his clues for him, till he wants one, then I hand it out. See?" "Not entirely. But I gather you're in Mr. Stone's employ." "You bet I am! And I'm on me job twenty-four hours a day." "And what is your job just now?" "Well, since eight A.M. I've been holdin' up this door, waitin' for yer honor to pass by.
Hedin's voice rasped harsh, and McNabb noticed that the younger man's fists were clenched as he laid a restraining hand upon his arm. "Take it easy lad," he said. "Maybe it's better we should play a waitin' game." "Waiting game!" cried Hedin. "I've been playing a waiting game for months and I'm through. Good God, man! Do you think my nerves are of iron?
Tact, sittin' at a large table, all alone. "'How do you do, Mr. Slick, says he. 'I am very glad to see you. Pray be seated. He really was a very gentlemanlike man, was Squire Tact, that's a fact. Sorry I kept you waitin' so long, sais he, 'but the Turkish Ambassador was here at the time, and I was compelled to wait until he went.
Well, at the long and the last, when he thought there was nobody lookin', he crept down the wall an' folleyed wan o' the sarvants out o' the room, an' by good luck, the hall door was open, so the poor fellow made off wid himself as fast as he could. Down the road wid him till he come to where the Gout was sittin' waitin' for him at the crass roads. 'Is that yourself? says the Spider.
Why, I run past it myself the day as we brought you in here wounded, and I'd never have found it if I hadn't knowed just where to look for it. So it's my opinion as we may stay here quiet and comfortable enough so long as we've a mind to; and then, when we're tired of waitin', we can slip out quietly in the night, and nobody be any the wiser. So much for that.
The kail's het, an' the cheirs is set, an' yer denner's waitin' ye there." It may have been already observed, that to Grizzie came not unfrequently an odd way of riming what she said. She was unaware of this peculiarity. The suggestion of sound by sound was as hidden from her as it was deep-seated in her and strong.
The only minutes o' slap-bang-up joy that came his way was when he corralled a bucker whose natural ability to roll on him an' kick his brains out left no percentage o' chance in the player's favor. Maybe that's what I seen in Little Peachey to-day. Just now you said the wild breed mixes slow. It does: for it sticks out, waitin' for its own kind.
But he's like most pups that hire other folks to do their tough work -they hain't 't got no nerve o' their own." Fred came stealthily out of the yard, after looking back at the house. He went straight up to young Scammon. "So here ye are, pal," laughed Tip. "Glad ye didn't keep me waitin'. Ye brought the wherewithal?"
I spoke to him about it and he's only waitin' for you to say the word, Mr. Cabot." The visitor protested a bit more and then yielded. "Frankly, Miss Phipps," he said, "I have been wanting to stay ever since I entered your door. This house takes me back to my boyhood, when I used to visit my great-uncle Hiram down at Ostable.
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