United States or Jamaica ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Ai-yi!" said old Sally. "I ain’t seein’ no bone this deal. Just a lettle green gourd ’s all I see with my strongest specs." Mary Carmichael, in one of the inner rooms, was writing a home letter, which was chiefly remarkable for what it failed to relate.
Persimmon Sneed's deep feeling on the subject had been evinced by his dispensing with the customary salutations, and one of the jury of view, with a mollifying intention, observed that they would use their best judgment to promote the interests of all parties. "Ai-yi!" said Persimmon Sneed, ruefully shaking his head. "But s'pose ye hev got mighty pore jedgmint?
"Ai-yi!" she said; but this time her favorite expletive was hardly more than a sigh. "I mind Jim when he first kem to us," she said, more to herself than to Eudora, who sat at her feet. The impending tragedy in the family had robbed her of all the joy in her suitors. They sat on a bench on the opposite side of the house, divided by the very nature of their interests yet companions in misery.
The entire Rodney family and the suitors of Eudora assembled to witness the departure. "It’s a heap friendly of you to fret so," was the parting stab of Sarah Yellett to Sally Rodney; and she swung the backboard about, cleared the cactus stumps in the Rodney door-yard, and gained the mountain-road. "Ai-yi!" said old Sally. "What’s this country comin’ to?"
"Ai-yi," openly scoffed the former Miss Tumlin; "talk’s cheap before—" She would have considered it indelicate to supply the word "marriage," but by breaking off her sentence before she came to the pith of it she continued to maintain the proprieties, and at the same time conveyed to her audience that she was too old and experienced to permit any fledgling from her nest to be caught, for want of a warning, by such obvious ante-matrimonial chaff as fair promises.
"Ai-yi!" said old Sally, sharply, and the chair came to an abrupt stand-still. "In the name o’ Heaven, how kem they to let him out?" Mrs. Rodney’s knowledge of the law was of the vaguest; and if incarceration would keep a prisoner out of more grievous trouble, she could not understand giving him his freedom.
One of the disaffected old farmers, gruff and averse, could not refrain from administering a rebuke to Brent Kayle as crossing the expanse of saw-dust on his way to join the audience he encountered the youth in company with Valeria Clee, his recent partner. "Ai-yi, Brent," the old man said, "the last time I seen you uns I remember well ez ye war a-settin' on the mourner's bench."
"In roundin’ up the p’ints of my gov’ment, Mis’ Rodney, you don’t want to forget that green gourds and green grapes is mighty apt to belong to the sour fambly, when they hangs beyant your reach." "Ai-yi!" grimaced old Sally. "It’s tol’able far to send East for green fruit. We can take our own pep’mint."
Word Of The Day