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As I remember, I told you yesterday that, if you behave yourself, I may relent so far as to give you a short grace." "Thank 'ee," said Nicky-Nan. "I'm behavin' myself that's to say, so far as I know." "But I want to make one or two points very clear to you. In the first place, what I'm about to say is strictly without prejudice?" Mr Pamphlett paused, upon a note of interrogation.
Cheyenne pushed back his hat and gazed at his young son. "Pretty fair, for an old man," said Cheyenne presently. "You been behavin' yourself?" "Sure." "How would you like to ride a real hoss, once?" "You mean your hoss?" "Uh-huh." "I'll trade you, even." "No, you won't, son. But you can ride him down to the ranch, if you like."
"How dare you call me out o' my name? for two pins, I'd slap your face!" replied Ida, her voice rising to a hysterical scream. "You know what my proper name is, so you do! An' I won't leave the apartment to please you, so I won't! Think God made me for the likes o' you to wipe your feet on? Think I bin behavin' myself decent all my life, for you to put a slur on me?
The mariner in charge looked destracted. And the bystanders a standin' by wuz amazed, and horrowfied by the spectacle of his actin' and behavin'. And I knew not how I should termonate the seen, and withdraw him away from where he wuz.
Y'owe it to yer intelligence to see all the different forms of animal life the good Lord has created, behavin' accordin' to their kind, and then come back to your own, thankin' Gawd you're not as they are. We'll eat at Ginger Jim's, where we can lean our elbows on the tables and get perfectly good oyster soup for ten cents a head!"
"Well, an' he hed sort of an odd-number way about him, too. He went along the street like he didn't belong. I donno if you know what I mean, but he was always takin' in the tops o' buildin's an' lookin' at the roads an' behavin' like he noticed the way you don't when you live in a town. Yes, Ebenezer Goodnight went around like he see things for the first time. An' somehow he never could join in.
"Y.D.," he said with a laugh, "I believe you've got nerves. You're behavin' like a woman." But he could not laugh it off. The mention of a woman brought Wilson's daughter back vividly before him. "She's a man's girl," he found himself, saying. He sat up with a shock at his own words. Then he rested his chin on his hands and gazed long at the blank wall before him. That was life his life.
Though I don't approve of her costoom, as I told her in the conversation that ensued, after we'd talked considerable about the Fair and kindred matters. For I see as we stood there behavin' ourselves, curious eyes wuz bent on her and onbecomin' epithets hurled at her by them who knowed no better. She seemed oblivious to 'em, but I asked her if she wouldn't rather wear less noticeable attire.
Well, there's no disgrace in that." "Oh! but he did, ma'am: that was all right; no mistake there either, ma'am. And to think o' me behavin' as I did to you and master as was so good to me! Who'll ever take any more notice of me now, after what has come out as I'm sure I no more dreamed on than the child unborn!"
But Sarah was a woman. What symptoms she exhibited were meaningless even to Scattergood. "Bob," said Scattergood, one auspicious day, "got any pref'rence for prosecutin' attorneys married or single?" "It depends," said Bob, cautiously. "Um!... How's Sairy behavin', Bob?" "She's she's " Bob became incoherent, and then speechless.
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