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Believing that it was one only of the divisions, what was their astonishment when they discovered the whole flock, and not one lamb a-wanting! How he had got all the divisions collected in the dark it is impossible to say.
Baldwin: it's set my blood a-creeping to look at him ever sin' here he came into Slaughter Lane a-wanting to buy the house over my head: folks don't look the color o' the dough-tub and stare at you as if they wanted to see into your backbone for nothingk. That was what I said, and Mr. Baldwin can bear me witness." "And in the rights of it too," said Mr. Crabbe.
But Hank, shaking in every joint and muscle of his still flabby body, wagged his head in utter misery. "Billy, I'll do anything else for you and Mrs. Evans and little Billy anything but that. I'll jump into Wimple's pond, get drunk, sign the pledge anything but that. What you're a-wanting, Billy, ain't to be thought of. You're forgetting, Billy, what I was and what I am.
Now, instead of answering his master's question, Joe sat down upon his hamper, and wept aloud. "What is the matter with you?" inquired Mr. Berners. "You axed me how I comed here," sobbed Joe, "just as if I could keep away when she and you was here in trouble, and a-wanting some one to look arter you." "But how did you know we were here?" anxiously questioned Mr. Berners.
"I certainly do," Miss Sessions said brightly, as delighted at Johnnie's remembering part of the visitor's words as a small boy when he has taught his terrier to walk on its hind legs. "Then if a body wants a thing bad enough, and keeps on a-wanting it Oh, just awful is that aspiration? Will the thing you want that-a-way come to pass?"
"There'd a-been a dozen fellows a-wanting to get you in six months, Polly," interposed the Captain. "Well, good-night, Mis' Pennel; there'll be a splendid haul of fish at the Banks this year, or there's no truth in signs. Come, my little Mara, got a kiss for the dry old daddy? That's my good girl. Well, good night, and the Lord bless you."
I took cook up her breakfast, but she said she didn't want none of our poisonous messes, and she'd breakfast with her cousin in the village if we'd no objection. She'll be gone in no time now, Miss Polly, and I'm a-wanting to know when you'll be a-coming down stairs." "I'm going to dress immediately, Maggie," said Polly. "I've scarcely slept all night, for this is an anxious moment for me.
Now do go, there's a lamb, and ask your ma if I mayn't come in." Mrs. Sharpe dropped her basket in a pet and stalked back to the house. "It's a peddler-man," she said, crossly, "a-wanting to come in. I told him he couldn't, and it's of no use; and the best thing you can do is to set the dogs on him." "No, no!" cried Mrs. Oleander, shrilly. "Let him come in. I like peddlers.
"Jem!" cried Don in a despairing voice, as he recalled the bundle he had made up, and the drawer left open. "Well, sir, you was allus a-wanting to go abroad, and get away from the desk," said Jem ill-naturedly "oh, how my head do ache! and now you've got your chance." "But that was all nonsense, Jem. I was only thinking then like a stupid, discontented boy. I don't want to go. What will they say?"
I sho' does ask yo' pardon fer lettin' mysef git so flustrated, but we-all's so powerful pleased fer ter see yo', an' has been a-wanting yo' so pintedly, that that that but, ma Lawd, I I I'se cla'r los' ma senses an', an Hi! look yonder at dat cusséd dawg an' ma fried chicken!" For once in her useless life Toinette had created a pleasing diversion.
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