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Updated: May 12, 2025
"It is not her fault," said Mr. Wharton, pointing to his daughter. "She has had no hand in it. She knows less of it all than you do." "It is my fault," said Emily, bursting out into self-reproach, "my fault that I married him." "Whether married or single he would have preyed upon Mr. Parker to the same extent." "Like enough," said the poor wife. "He'd prey upon anybody as he could get a-hold of.
The sheriff fixed him with a grim stare. "What did you try to run for, Mac?" he demanded. "I had business outdoors," grumbled McFluke. "What kind of business?" "What's that to you? You ain't got no license to grab a-hold of me and stop me from transacting my legitimate business whenever and wherever I feel like it." "You seem to know more about it than I do.
But the bottom was soft and muddy, and he flopped about dolefully when he attempted to walk to the bank. Harry reached his gun out toward him, but Tony, with a quick jerk of his arm, motioned it away. "I'd rather be drownded than shot," he spluttered. "I don't want no gun-muzzles pinted at me. Take a-hold of that little tree, and then reach me your hand."
And when it was bedtime the old man rose up and held out his hand, and says: "Look at it, gentlemen and ladies all; take a-hold of it; shake it. There's a hand that was the hand of a hog; but it ain't so no more; it's the hand of a man that's started in on a new life, and'll die before he'll go back. You mark them words don't forget I said them. It's a clean hand now; shake it don't be afeard."
Hill said Hart's nephew done just right to take along all the guns he could get a-hold of; and Hill said he'd attended to the proper loading of every one of them weepons himself. At last with all the boys laughing away and firing fool talk at him, and the Hen keeping him up to the collar by going on about how brave he was he did manage to whip up his mules and start off.
"An' all to once Eb took a-hold o' her elbow not loose an' temporary like he shook hands, but firm an' four-cornered; an' when he spoke it was like his voice hed been starched an' ironed. "'Mis' Fire Chief, s'he, lookin' round at her, 'I's to let you know this week whether I'd take over the store. Well, yes, he says, 'if you'll give me the time on it we mentioned, I'll take it over.
The old gent was quite broke up, Hill said, and took a-hold of her hand fatherly she was a powerful fine-looking woman and said she had his sympathy; and when she eased up on her crying so she could talk she said she was much obliged and felt it all the more, she said, because he looked like a young uncle of hers who'd brought her up, her father being dead, till she was married East to her dear Captain and had come out to the Territory with him to his dreadful doom.
"Westover," the painter suggested. "But the boy isn't so bad all the time." "Couldn't be," said Whitwell, with a cackle of humorous enjoyment. "He has his spells of bein' decent, and he's pootty smart, too. But when the other spell ketches him it's like as if the devil got a-hold of him, as I said in the first place.
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