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"Why ... why, in course I'm mightily obleeged ter ye, doctor; but I jest couldn't think of acceptin' hit from ye," stammered Big Jerry, struggling between the dictates of honor and insatiate desire. "Don't say another word, my good friend; she's yours and I have several others at home. Only please don't use it in any shooting feuds if there are such things still in existence nowadays.
You pushes it into my 'ands, almost weepin', you was, and sez, sez you, 'Stryker, you sez, 'tyke this in triflin' toking of my gratichood; I wouldn't hinsult you, you sez, 'by hofferin' you money, but this I can insist on yer acceptin', and no refusal, says you." "Oh," repeated Kirkwood.
"Don' make no botheration, Miss Fa'gut. Don' make no botherations. No, 'deed. I jes drap in ter ax you if you won' do me the proud of acceptin' ma humble invitation to er daince, Miss Fa'gut." She shielded her eyes with her arms and tried to crawl past it, but the genial monster blocked the way. "I jes drap in ter ax you 'bout er daince, Miss Fa'gut.
Tak' aff yer glove an' try the ring. Naebody'll notice. Ye can look at it later on. 'I'm no in the habit o' acceptin' rings frae young men. 'But but we're engaged. 'That's news, but I doobt it's no official. 'At least we're near engaged. Say we are, Christina. 'This is most embarrassing, Mr. Robinson. 'Aw, Christina! said the boy, helplessly.
He ain't at all bashful about acceptin' the invitation, nor our starin' at him don't seem to get him a bit fussed. In fact, he's about the coolest appearin' member of our little trio. Maybe some of that is due to the dead white of his face and the black hair smoothed back so slick. A cucumbery sort of person, Nivens.
A lady I was figurin' on acceptin' a invite to dinner with, once, one of them rich kind that always wants to get their money's worth out of anything they do for a poor guy, happened to come out on the back steps where I was holdin' kind of a coroner's request over a lettuce san'wich.
Now yer a-smilin', boys, so I may remark jest here, to save yez from interruptin' hereafter, thet I've ben to Old Man Peters's sence, on several occasions; an' nex' summer I hope to see yez all acceptin' the hospitality of Mrs. Jabez E. Batterpole! But thet ain't no part o' this here story! "Nex' day Sandy an' me hed a fine run down by Woodstock.
I know I shall like North Queensland. There were quite a number of diggers on board the Carea, and one night we held a concert in the saloon and I sang 'The Kerry Dance' I'm an Irishwoman and next morning a big man named O'Hagan, one of the steerage passengers, came up and asked me if I would 'moind acceptin' a wee bit av a stone, and he handed me a lovely specimen of quartz with quite two ounces of gold in it.
I'm no claimin' any descent frae kings, and I'm no acceptin' any auld wife's clavers against my women forbears, as ye are! I'm just paid gude honest siller by Black Michael for the using of ma face and figure sic time as his Majesty is tae worse frae trink! And I'm commeesioned frae Michael to ask ye what price YE would take to join me in performing these duties turn and turn aboot.
"That'll feel like Sunday anyhow." "Poor lonely creatur'!" thought Mrs Penhaligon, who always pitied bachelors. On an impulse she said, "An' when you've done, Mr Nanjivell, there'll be fried eggs an' bacon, if you're not above acceptin' the compliment for once."
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