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It was a rich feast indeed to see the relief, the astonishment, the pride come in swift turns upon that grim old face. And yet in the end Pop was able to muster a fairly good imitation of a frown. "And here you come back with a shirt and a pair of trousers plumb spoiled by all your gallivantin'," he said, "not speakin' of a perfectly good chicken killed.
"Don't you try to teach me no law," he shouted; "I know what I can do. Ef MY darter went gallivantin' around nights in one of them automobiles, it would serve her right to get locked up. Maybe this young woman will learn to stay at home nights with her folks. She ain't goin' to take no harm here.
Has Caleb Hammond offered to go gallivantin' off to the Ostable Cattle Show along with you, Hannah? Well, well! Wonders'll never cease. Caleb's gettin' gay in his old age, ain't he? Humph! there'll be somethin' else for the postoffice gang to talk about, first thing you know. Hannah, I'm surprised!" Miss Parker colored and seemed embarrassed. Her brother, however, voiced his disgust.
I’ve seen the evils of gallivantin’ a good deal lately and I don’t want to see no more. Not here and not nowhere." Then she began to eat and drink and reflect, all at the same time. "By the way, what’s your name?" she asked, suddenly. "Jack didn’t tell me." "Janice, ma’am." "Granite?" said Aunt Mary. "What a funny idea to name you that! Did they call you for the tinware or for the rocks?"
"You might contribute a mite to your own board." "I'll save you my board for a week," snapped the girl. Mrs. Quincy changed her tack. "And leave me shut up in town," she resumed. "I should think you'd think twice, Lena, before you went off gallivantin' and left your poor old mother here alone. Nobody seems to think I need any pleasure." "I'll write and ask Mrs.
"That's just what I manes to do, mavoorneen," replied Teddy Maroon, with a pleasant nod, "for I'll be off to the Rock to-morrow by day-break, weather permittin', an' it's little help any noise from me would give to the waves that kape gallivantin' wid the reefs out there like mad things, from Sunday to Saturday, all the year round."
Swiftwater Pete had offered to go with her, but she had been relieved of his well-meant kindness by the demand of Holt. "No, you don't, Pete. You ain't a-goin' off gallivantin' with no young lady. You're a-goin' to stay here and fix my game laig for me. What do you reckon Miss Sheba wants with a fat, lop-sided lummox like you along with her?" Pete grew purple with embarrassment.
A wide-brimmed, crackled beaver rested on his fluffy gray locks, and there was the gentleness of old age in his face. The spring sap seemed to have started anew in the elder woman's veins. She tittered as she scrambled to rise, and when the old man offered to help her, she eyed him with mock scorn and waved him off. "G'way fum me, 'Viticus Wisdom gallivantin' round here like we was young niggehs!
"Ben gallivantin' off an' temptin' the boys to play," declared Miss Jerusha, with a shrewd nod of her brown front. "Oh, I know." "We won't say any more about it now, dear," said Mrs. Henderson gently, at sight of the hot little face. "There, get into your chair, this one next to me. Where's Peletiah?" looking about.
I know, 'cause I heard what he said one day to her in the library. "Yes, I guess I was in the next room that day, too er dustin', probably. Anyway, I heard him tell your ma good an' plain what he thought of her gallivantin' 'round from mornin' till night with them young students an' professors, an' havin' them here, too, such a lot, till the house was fairly overrun with them.
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