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And would you be coming over in all the rain? Well! well! well! and that would be kind, whatefer." Elsie put down the pitcher of milk she was bringing from the pantry and came forward to remove the visitor's dripping shawl. "Don't, Elsie, don't!" whispered Miss Arabella, clutching it tighter. "Come on upstairs. I want to tell you something something awful." Elsie's big eyes opened wide.
"Well, you stopped kicking, anyway, until we got the big one, which was clean unreasonable, whatefer." "No, sir." Mr. McPherson's spectacle case tapped the younger man's arm peremptorily. "I was perfectly logical then, as I am now. I objected when the wee squeaking thing was brought in, and I objected more when you and the weemin filled up the end o' the church with a machine to turn us all deef.
"Tonal Neil, Tonal Neil, whatefer; he will pe saying the new minister will pe Hielan' an' will pe hafing the beautiful Gaelic!" The look of good-natured indulgence died from John Egerton's face at the mention of Donald's name. The young man with the easy air of equality had been taking liberties! "I am sorry to disappoint you, Mr.
"Very likely," replied Master Freake. "This is all nothing whatefer but words, words, words," said the Welshman. "And words, my goot sirs, are indeed no goot whatefer. Sir James's head is wrapped up in a mist of words, words, words, and indeed he cannot see anything whatefer. I am not a man of words, and what you call 'em broblems." "Very good," said I. "Indeed it is goot," said he.
"Daddy!" it said, and it brushed away a wisp of hair by its ear just as another one, long ago, had used to. "Daddy!" it faltered. "Why did I ask you to give him the place, if it wasn't because because " The spell was broken by Kaufmann's voice. "Whatefer you do, I am sooted," he was saying. It might have been his father. "But if w'at Pepper says about Brainard "
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In less than half an hour he returned in a most gracious frame of mind. "Man, but you are the smart lad," he said as Kalman swung his team around. "You will be making a great rancher, Tommy." "My name is Kalman." "Well, well, Callum. It iss a fery good name, whatefer." "Kalman!" shouted the boy. Mackenzie nodded grave rebuke. "There is no occasion for shouting. I am not deef, Callum, my boy.
"Oh, nothing at all," said Mackenzie, whose strong Highland accent went strangely with his soft Indian voice and his dark Indian face. "It iss a good place for it, whatefer." French stood for a moment in disgusted silence, and then breaking into a laugh he said: "All right, Mac. There's no use trying to keep it from you. But, mind you, it's fair play in this thing.
He had always done it, and this mid-voyage refreshment had come to be one of the institutions of the trip, as indispensable as the coal to run the engine. He appeared shortly with a huge teapot in one hand and a jug of hot water in the other, calling hospitably, "Come away, and have a cup-a-tea, whatefer. Come away." Mr. Alfred Wilbur, the young man in the white flannels ran to help him.
"There's a long bit in the newspaper here that would be telling that wherever a poisonous weed grows, jist right beside it, mind ye, you will be finding the herb that cures the poison. Eh! eh! wouldn't that be jist beautiful, whatefer?" His golden-brown eyes were radiant. "Och! hoch! but it takes the Almighty to be managing things, indeed!
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