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But in her heart there was reason enough for this caution; there had been days yes, and nights too when, during her lamented husband's lifetime, she had "taken a drop," taken it, obviously enough, as a comfort, and a solace when things were going very hard with her, and "'Enery preferrin' 'er to be jolly 'erself to keep 'im company."
"Ha! ha!" laughed Fergus, who seemed greatly tickled with the latter part of the chief's observation, "fery goot! ho! fery goot! they do not love death, an' it iss life they will be preferrin'. Ay, ay! It iss the Heelandman that will be of much the same opeenion, only, when fightin' hes got to be done, he's not afraid to do it in daylight."
"We was just a-sayin' as you come in, Mr. Bennett," observed Dan Ridley, "that we'd none of us seen your lady at church yet on Sundays, Mebbe she ain't of our 'persuasion' as they sez, or mehbe she goes into Riversford, preferrin' 'Igh services " Bennett smiled a superior smile, and leaning easily against the bar, crossed his legs and surveyed the company generally with a compassionate air.
"Ain't she heard my prayers most all winter, till she give up comin' to prayer-meetin', preferrin' to stay outside, "'Where sinners meet, and awful scoffers dwell'? An' I've exhorted; but" the elder raised his eyes piously to heaven "Paul may plant and Apollos may water, but it don't do no good." Alfaretta knew her father's iron will too well to attempt any further protests.
Then, Lord what's-'is-name, he's falled in love with the mountain-tops, an' is for ever tryin' to get at 'em, in which he would succeed, for he's a plucky young feller, if it worn't for that snob who's got charge of 'im Mister Lumbard whose pecooliarity lies in preferrin' every wrong road to the right one.
"But I prefer to be taken to the station house," he began. "And who are you to be preferrin' anything at all?" countered Switzer. "I'll phone back to the station where I am and what I've done; though that part of it's no business of yours. I'll be doin' that after I've arrainged you over to Jefferson Market." "Jeff Jefferson Market!"
Burke adjusted her glasses and gazed interestedly about the room at some pictures and decorations which Maxwell had placed in position, and inquired: "Who is the plaster lady and gentleman standin' on the mantelpiece?" "The Venus de Milo, and the Hermes of Praxiteles." "Well, you know, I just can't help preferrin' ladies and gentlemen with arms and legs, myself.
Apparently she didn't want em, preferrin' to be lonesome and sad and interestin'. Yes, sir, there was a mystery about them Robinsons, and even Peter T. give in to that. "'If 'twas anybody else, says he, 'I'd say the old man was a crook, down here hidin' from the police. But he's too rich for that, and always has been. He ain't any fly-by-night.
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