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"I told the man the time and asked him if the road pointing to the ridgway would take me to Higham. Of course I knew it would not and I have no very distinct idea why I asked. But he answered promptly enough, 'Yus. Straight down the road. Was you wantin' to get to the station?
She enclosed his hand in hers and held it to her lips. "I were a wantin' to go with you and Mummy, Daddy," she sobbed. "I air always lonely in the shanty without ye but if ye say, 'Stay with Andy, then I stays." "That air what I says, brat, darlin'," panted Skinner. Then for many minutes he was lost in the terrible struggle of strong life against the grip of death.
"Something does seem to be worrying him," agreed Tom. As they neared the colored man, they could hear him saying: "He suah did hab nerve, dat's what he did! De idea ob askin' me all dem questions, an' den wantin' t' know if I'd sell him!" "What's that, Eradicate?" asked Tom. "Oh, it's a man I met when I were comin' back from de ash dump," Eradicate explained.
"Hard luck?" queried the tall man. "I'm rollin' in wealth," stated the stranger, with an ironic sneer. The tall man's eyes glittered. "Where you from?" he questioned. "You c'n have three guesses," returned the stranger, his eyes narrowing with the mockery that the tall man had seen in them before. The tall man adopted a placative tone. "I ain't wantin' to butt into your business," he said.
But it wuz strong enough to shadow the hull world with its blackness, blot out the sun and the stars, and scale the very mounts of heaven with its wild complaints and pleadin's. A strange thing love is, haint it? Wall, we sot there for quite a spell and my companion wantin', I spose, to make me happy, took out a daily paper out of his pocket and went to readin' the deaths to me.
"I tuk a peg an'' jammed ut into his ugly jaw 'Bite on that, Peg Barney, I sez; 'the night is settin' frosty, an' you'll be wantin' divarsion before the mornin'. But for the Rig'lations you'd be bitin' on a bullet now at the thriangles, Peg Barney, sez I. "All the draf' was out av their tents watchin' Barney bein' pegged. "''Tis agin the Rig'lations!
When I was in the hills after a day's tramp I'd let it have its fling on such delicacies as I could turn out of the fryin'-pan myself, but when I got in again I'd begin to act bossy with it. It's wantin' reasonably that keeps folks alive, I reckon. The mis-a-blest folks I've ever saw was them that had killed all their wants by overfeedin' 'em.
"You're a wonderful housekeeper, Emarine," he said. Then his face grew grave. "Got a present for your mother yet, Emarine?" "Oh, yes, long ago. I got 'er a black shawl down t' Charman's. She's b'en wantin' one." He shuffled his feet about a little. "Unh-hunh. Yuh that is I reckon yuh ain't picked out any present fer fer my mother, have yuh, Emarine?" "No," she replied, with cold distinctness.
"We've got a hundred credits between us. We'll get to Zorn in due course, I hope." "Your pleasure, gents," a bullet-headed man said, eyeing the colorful evening clothes of the diplomats. "You'll be wantin' to try your luck at the Zoop tower, I'd guess. A game for real sporting gents." "Why ... ah ..." Magnan said. "What's a zoop tower?" Retief asked. "Out-of-towners, hey?"
Might I ask if you was wantin' any odd jobs done, miss? My old man's out o' work, an' " "Oh no, thank you," said Marjory, cutting the woman short; "I only wanted to inquire." And she turned Brownie's head in the direction of Braeside. "Good-morning. I'm much obliged to you." Marjory was bitterly disappointed at the failure of her peacemaking mission, for she had set out almost certain of success.
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