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But I talked him out of that, and he promised me he wouldn't undertake the bus'ness till I could jine him. You know there's a sweetness about such work that I 'spose made me selfish. I warn't willing he should have all the enj'yment to himself. "I've showed my faith in Dick by sending him home with the peltries.
He hears folks say right to his face that nobody wants him and everybody wants Gay. Miss Vilda was crushed by the overpowering weight of this argument, and did not even try to stem the resistless tide of Samantha's eloquence. And do you mean to tell me you don't see the Lord's hand in this hull bus'ness, Vildy Cummins?
"I'm foreman of the Ancients," roared the Cap'n, "and I have the right to press into service any craft I see passin'. Take me aboard, I say, dumblast ye!" "This ain't no high seas," retorted Brackett, trying to lick past. "You can drive gents out of your dooryard, but you can't do no press-gang bus'ness on 'em." It was apparent that even "Balm o' Joy's" bland nature could entertain resentment.
From the stable, old Nelson, on her father's best horse, came galloping, and seeing the white figure in the doorway, cried out in a quavering voice, without checking his steed. "I goin' tell yo' pa, Miss Betty, he in de kentry on lan' bus'ness. Go back in de house, Missy!"
But bear in mind, sonny, that we're only borering this for sixty days, and we'll give you ten per cent interest that's our style of doing bus'ness, eh, Duke?" "Well, if I must, I must," said Tom hopelessly, making a move of his hand as if to draw the money from his trousers pocket. "That's right, allers take things philosophically, and be ready to extend a helping hand to them as"
She was hired to be housekeeper while John was sick. Now he's dead, and she'll think it's queer if we don't settle that marryin' bus'ness. Ain't that so?" "Humph!" grunted Captain Jerry. "Perez is in a mighty sweat to git other folks married jest 'cause he's goin' to be. I don't see why she can't keep on bein' housekeeper jest the same as she's always been."
But now you're doin' bus'ness with me, and I ain't sick. If you open your mouth to anybody, if you let a soul know who set that fire, I'll walk straight to Jedge Baker, and I'll tell him the whole story. I'll tell him what I did and why I did it. And THEN I'll tell him what you did how you bullied money out of that girl that hadn't no more to do with the fire than a baby.
The count was spinning a pigeon English yarn of how he'd fought a duel with rapiers. When he'd finished, old Dillaway pounded his knee and sung out: "That's bus'ness! That's the way to fix 'em! No lawsuits, no argument, no delays. Just take 'em out and punch holes in 'em. Did you hear that, Brown?" "Yes, I heard it," says Peter, kind of absent-minded like. "Fighting with razors, wan't it?"
"But I need a fortni't to collect in some that's due me. Farmin' ain't such ready-money as the circus bus'ness." "Take your fortni't! And we'll settle place later. And that's all, 'cause it makes me sick to stand anywhere within ten feet of you." Hiram strode away across the fields, his wounded gladiator on his arm.
"Hi, Rosa!" says Becky again, and begun to pound the pan with the potater. And I give you my word that that mare started up, turned the wagon around nice as could be, and begun to swim ashore. When we got where the critter's legs touched bottom, Becky remarks: "Whoa!" "Here!" I yells, "what did you do that for?" "Pay thirty-five dolla NOW," says she. She was bus'ness, that girl.
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