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It was for me, the victor, to rush forward to embrace this intrepid player, and to raise him to his feet with words of praise, and encouragement, and hope. He was in pain and could not stand erect, yet the honest fellow confessed that there was no accident in my victory. "He did it a-purpose! He did it a-purpose!" Again and again he said it.
The' was fifteen hats in a little trunk built a-purpose for 'em, an' the' was all kinds of vests an' pants an' neckties 'at a feller could imagine. But best of all was a book 'at we found at the bottom of one o' the trunks. It was a hard-shelled book, an' I never took much stock in that kind. When it's my turn to read a book, a little old paper-back fits me out all right.
But he'd sobered up enough having slept quite a little, and soaked his head at the railroad tank to want to try all he knew how to spill himself out of his job. It took all the Hen could do the Hen had got up early and come down to the deepo a-purpose to attend to him and all the boys could do helping her, to get him up on that coach-box and boosted off out of town.
The next place she entered was a cigar store. "I might have known better than to go in; for there's that wooden Indian standing there, a-purpose to keep ladies out!" "O, here's a 'Sample Room. Now this must be the place, for it says 'Push, on the green door, just as the other one did."
Mason opened up her parlour and we sat there while Mifflin recited "The Revenge" and "Maud Muller." "Well, now, ain't that real sweet!" said Emma Mason. "It's surprising how those words rhyme so nicely. Seems almost as though it was done a-purpose! Reminds me of piece day at school.
By the 'oly Peter! Let me at 'im! I'll show 'im whether I'm living or not! "'What ails you, you villain? says the feller that owned the yacht, a great big Englishman, Lord Somebody-or-other. 'The man saved your lives. "'He knocked us overboard! yells Julius. "'Yes, and he done it a-purpose! sputters Van Doozen, well as he could for being so waterlogged. "'Let's kill him! says all three.
I come in early this morning a-purpose to turn out these two rooms, the dining-room and the droring-room, same as I always do of a Saturday, along of the lidy's horders and wishes. I come in 'ere fust, to pull up the blinds and that, and d'reckly I switches on the light 'Burglars! I sez to meself, 'Burglars! That's wot it is! seeing the nasty mess the place was in.
"I am lookin' every day," said Mrs. Pennel, involuntarily glancing upward at the sea. At the word appeared the vision of little Mara, who rose up like a spirit from a dusky corner, where she had been stooping over her reading. "Why, little Mara," said the Captain, "you ris up like a ghost all of a sudden. I thought you's out to play. I come down a-purpose arter you.
You've no right to his eyes, Miss Erma, without his tongue and palate. No more of this, miss! and done for you a-purpose! Well, cook will be put out, and no mistake! I better not let her see it go down, anyhow." And the worthy man tearfully put some dainty by, perhaps without any view to his own supper. "Lord Castlewood spoke to me about a Mrs. Price the housekeeper, is she not?"
The half hour was nearly up, so Mary uncurled her cramped legs from under her and said abruptly, "Never mind about the air. Just you listen to me. You manse young ones have just got to behave yourselves better than you've been doing this spring that's all there is to it. I just come up to-night a-purpose to tell you so. The way people are talking about you is awful."
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