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Updated: June 28, 2025
"A saafter-spoken body I never seen than Tobe war when he fust kem a-courtin' round the settlemint." "Sech ez that ain't goin' ter las' noways," dryly remarked the philosopher of the chimney-corner. This might seem rather a reflection upon the courting gentry in general than a personal observation. But Eugenia's consciousness lent it point.
Cynthia's eyes were on the orange line of the sunset over Coniston, but she laughed a little, indulgently. "Cynthy?" "Yes." "Er that Painter-man hain't such a bad fellow w-why didn't you ask him in to supper?" "I'll give you three guesses," said Cynthia, but she did not wait for them. "It was because I wanted to be alone with you. Milly's gone out, hasn't she?" "G-gone a-courtin'," said Jethro.
The man cursed her deeply, bitterly, ere he replied "I know you, sir, an' so I ought to, though you don't know me. Mr. Ryfe, I seen you in Belgrave Square, along of her. You was a-courtin' of her then. You owes her more than one good turn now, or I'm mistaken!"
During this conversation the unconscious pair had gained the foot of King street and turned up Prince William street toward Chipman's Hill where they took a stand. "And you got the crosscut at the gate?" asked the perturbed Melindy, rather timidly. "I did, you dear old gal. Now, what's the use of you gettin' jealors of me and Josiar? I'm darned shure I don't be a-courtin' him."
"You're thinkin' it's a yowl," said another. "But you've got him wrong. He's a jackass, come a-courtin'." "A man can't get no sleep at all, scarcely," grumbled another. But Owen had accomplished his purpose. For during the exchange of amenities Randerson had answered him without turning, though: "What you wantin', Red?" he said. "You figger we've got 'em all out of the timber?" repeated Owen.
Ye see," said the old man, setting down his basket, and seating himself with great nicety on the moss-grown doorstep, "ye see, 't were a tur'ble storm that night rain, and wind, wi' every now an' then a gert, cracklin' flame o' lightnin'. I mind I'd been up to th' farm a-courtin' o' Nancy Brent she 'm dead now, poor lass, years an' years ago, but she were a fine, buxom maid in those days, d'ye see.
"Why, laws, mother, I don't feel my age," said the frisky Captain, giving a sort of skip. "It don't seem more'n yesterday since you and I was a-courtin', Polly. What a life you did lead me in them days! I think you kep' me on the anxious seat a pretty middlin' spell." "I do wish you wouldn't talk so. You ought to be ashamed to be triflin' round as you do.
Sherd Raines air gum' to do the marryin'. He air the best friend I got. Sherd was a-courtin' the gal, too, but he hevn't got no gredge ag'in ye, 'n' he hev promised to tie ye. Sherd air a preacher now. He hev just got his license. He didn't want to do it, but I told him he had to. We'll hev the biggest weddin' ever seed in these mountains, I tell ye. Any o' yo' folks be on hand?"
But it got to be so, that the women would count and calculate so many weeks afore 'twas time for Lommedieu to be along; and they'd make up ginger-snaps and preserves and pies, and make him stay to tea at the houses, and feed him up on the best there was: and the story went round, that he was a-courtin' Phebe Ann Parker, or Phebe Ann was a-courtin' him, folks didn't rightly know which.
Sister Sudley, victorious, having regained her normal position by one single natural impulse of self-assertion, not as a religionist, but as Tyler Sud-ley's wife, and hence entitled to all the show of respect which that fact unaided could command, sat looking at him with a changed face a face that seemed twenty years younger; it had the expression it wore before it had grown pinched and ascetic and insistently sorrowful; one might guess how she had looked when Tyler Sudley first went up the mountain "a-courtin," She sought to assume no other stand-point.
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