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Who earned and left you the money you are a-usin'?" sez I, "who educated you and made your life easy before you?" And then bein' fairly drove into a corner, he owned up that his mother wuz a good woman. But his nose wuz kinder lifted up the hull of the time he wuz a-sayin' it, as if he hated to own it up, hated to like a dog.
But the young woman was kind uv nervous, 'nd after the colonel went back 'nd got into his bunk the young woman sniffled and worrited and seemed like she had lost her wits, 'nd the baby kep' cryin' jist as hard as ever. Waal, there wuz n't much sleepin' to be done in that car, for what with the baby cryin', 'nd the young woman a-sayin', "Oh, dear!"
Look at them case-knife saws and things, how tedious they've been made; look at that bed-leg sawed off with 'm, a week's work for six men; look at that nigger made out'n straw on the bed; and look at " "You may WELL say it, Brer Hightower! It's jist as I was a-sayin' to Brer Phelps, his own self. S'e, what do YOU think of it, Sister Hotchkiss, s'e?
It weren't Orn Skinner." "Who were a-sayin' it were Ben?" demanded Myra, her mouth hard and lined. "I says it," replied Ezy. "I seed him when he done it, and I comed to tell ye, and to see Mammy and Satisfied." "Then come in, and go to bed, for ye be sick."
"Sweet is true love, though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is Death, who puts an end to pain. I know not which is sweeter no, not I." There wuzn't hardly a dry eye in my head as I stood a-lookin' at Elaine. And jest at this wropped moment I heard some voices nigh me that I recognized a-sayin' in glad and joyous axents, "How do you do, Josiah Allen's Wife?"
"Which o' your ears is burning?" "Both." "Then it shu'd be the left ear only. Old Zeb, here " "Hush 'ee now, Prudy!" implored the crowder. " Old Zeb here," continued Prudy, relentlessly, "was only a-sayin', as you walked in, that he'd read you the Riot Act afore you was many days older. He's mighty fierce wi' your goin's on, I 'sure 'ee." "Is that so, Mr. Minards?" Mr.
At length she called for Mrs. Byass, for whose benefit the story was repeated. 'I'm sure you oughtn't to go there to-day, was Bessie's opinion. 'You've quite enough trouble of your own, my dear. 'And that's just what I was a-sayin', mum, assented Mrs. Griffin, who had won Bessie's highest opinion by her free use of respectful forms of address.
She's a strornary pretty beggar-wench, with blue eyes and black hair, as used to stand at the corner of Essex Street, Strand, and the money as that gal got a-holdin' out her matches and a-sayin' texes out of the Bible must ha' been strornary. So the Essex Street Beauty's bin about here agin on the rainy-night dodge, 'es she?
"Pup-pup-please, sir," she began, but quailed under a sudden and penetrating look from those beady eyes. "Well, what is it?" inquired Furneaux. A violent nudge from curl papers stirred the cook's wits. "I do hope you dud-dud-didn't pay any heed to anythink I was a-sayin' of," she stammered. "Mr. Trenholme wouldn't hurt a fuf-fuf-fly.
"They was a good deal in the open air, and it tells," was her tribute to the memory of this plate. She developed the subject further, incidentally. "Tryin' on is a change, of course, but liable to temper, and vexatious when the party insists on letting out and no allowance of turn-over. The same if too short in front. What was I a-sayin'?... Oh, Mrs. Prichard yes!
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