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We'se all a-lookin' and leanin' on Miss Edie, Lor bres her." But Zell was going to perdition. Little later the stage brought tired Edith home, but in better spirits than before, as she had realized a somewhat fair sum for what she had sold, and had been treated politely. After taking off her things, she asked, "Where's Zell?" "Lying down, I think," said Laura.
"Why, names don't count between us, chiquita," said he, with his great-hearted smile. "I'm just a man, I am, an' you're just a woman; and rightly I don't know no name for the thing that's been a-callin' between us ever since I seen you in the woods. But I kin see it in your face, Peachey, an' you kin see it in mine; it's a-lookin' at me through them eyes o' yourn "
And s'pose I shouldn't like her, arter all? Madame sneered, with a patois ejaculation of derision. 'Vary good! Then some one else will not be so 'ard to please as you will soon find. 'Some one's bin a-lookin' arter her, you mean? said the young man, with a shrewd uneasy glance on the cunning face of the French lady.
Why," sez I, a-lookin' kinder fur off, beyond Deacon Garven, and all other troubles, as thoughts of beauty and insperation come to me borne out of the past into my very soul, by the tender memories of the bells thoughts of the great host of believers who had gathered together at the sound of the bells the great army of the Redeemed
And then to suppose that anybody would be a-lookin' out for shell-work stockin's, a-carin' whether they wuz clam-shell pattern, or oyster shell. The idee! That is the way Maggie and I felt; why, if you'll believe it, that sweet little creeter never took but one dress with her, besides a old wrapper to put on mornin's.
Well, in course, 'twas no kiss-an'-be-friends arter that; so, bein' in a mounseer's place, Mr. Toley took French leave, which I did the same, and here we are a-lookin' for a job. "But Lor' bless me! what's happened to you, Mr. Burke? When you didn't come aboard at that there Gheria, Captain Barker he says, 'Log that there knave Burke a deserter, says he. But I says to Mr.
That's a pictur of him in his hairy dress, wi' his goat, an' parrot, an' the umbrellar as he made hisself, a-lookin' at the footprint on the sand." The picture, coupled with Bob Lumsden's graphic description, had the desired effect. His little friend's interest was aroused, and Pat finally accepted the book, with a promise to read it carefully when he should find time.
He jes let that hoe-handle drap on Abe fer 'bout haffen hour, jes to give him time to study, an' next day thar was ole Tom a-settin' on his orchard fence a-lookin' mighty unknowin', when the furriner's podner come a-prancin' up an' axed ef old Tom Perkins lived thar. Ole Tom jes whispers. Now, I clean fergot to tell ye, stranger, that Abe Shivers nuver could talk out loud.
"'I don't want to look a' here, said Sam. 'I'm a-lookin' a different way, and it's Mrs.
"Hi-i-i! Yo' all found the man yo' come a-lookin' fo'. Ho law!" "Hit's the Riveh Prophet," someone replied to a hail from within, the dance ending. A crowd came tumbling out onto the deck of the big boat of the dance hall, everyone talking, laughing, catching their breaths. "Hi-i! Likely he'll preach to-morrow," a woman cried. "To-morrow's Sunday." "Sunday?" Rasba gasped.
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