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"Yes," he drawled, with a suspicious grin; "I reckon you feel a whole lot like congratulatin' me." "I do," she said. "Of course you were not to have the idol just yet, but it is better for you to have it before the time than that the Taggarts should get hold of it." "Do you know where the idol is hid?" he asked. She told him no, that she had never consulted the diagram.
Eben Foster, you mean?" "Yup. He sung out, 'Congratulations, Heman, says he." "'What you congratulatin' him for? says I. "'Ain't you heard? says he. 'He's engaged to be married'." Thankful uttered an exclamation. "Engaged!" she repeated. "Mr. Daniels engaged to be married?" "So Eben said. I wanted to ask a million questions, of course, but John Kendrick was right alongside me and I couldn't.
Good people refer to it as an example, authors as a theatrical scene and hypocrites as a grand illustration for them to turn up the whites of their cold cantin' eyes at. Lord love you, my son, sais you, 'let them brag of it; but what would it be to mine; you congratulatin' me on goin' to a better world, and me congratulatin' you on bein' "Archbishop."
I was congratulatin' you on your wealth." "I ain't seen that you been flashin' any money," said the cowboy. "Nope. That ain't what money's made for. And I never bet on a sure thing. Ain't no fun in that." The giant sheepman, whose movements were as deliberate as the sun's, slowly reached in his pocket and drew out a leather pouch. He counted out forty dollars in gold-pieces.
There'll be a message for you, Julius. There always is." Julius's smile was as bland as sunshine. "Yaas, Miss Lucy. I 'spects dar'll be some excommunication fer me. Marse Fauquier sho' do favour Old Marster in dat. He don' never forgit! 'Pears ter me he'd better come home all dis heah congratulatin' backwards an' forwards wid gunpowder over de kintry! Gunpowder gwine burn ef folk git reckless!"
Good people refer to it as an example, authors as a theatrical scene and hypocrites as a grand illustration for them to turn up the whites of their cold cantin' eyes at. Lord love you, my son, sais you, 'let them brag of it; but what would it be to mine; you congratulatin' me on goin' to a better world, and me congratulatin' you on bein' "Archbishop."
"'It shorely shows the oncertainties of things, says Enright, ag'in referrin' to his glass. 'I'm in the very act of congratulatin' myse'f, mental, that this yere is the best season I ever sees, when a party rides in from the first stage station towards Tucson, with the tale. It's shore a paradox; it's a case where the more I win, the more I lose.
She's goin' to marry THAT!" The last word was emphasized by a furious gesticulation toward the back of the gentleman from Sandwich. "Who? Mr. Pratt? Is your sister to marry him? Indeed! I congratulate them both and you." "Me? What in tunket I ask your pardon, Mr. Ellery, for talkin' so in the meetin' house but what are you congratulatin' me for?"
I made tol'able time, an' made a rough survey o' the timber before I unpacked my grub. After eatin' I started back to camp, congratulatin' myself that I'd reach it with time an' to spare. But as some poetry sharp I once heard of says, 'Man proposes, but the Almighty disposes, or words that mean the same thing.
I see be th' raypublican pa-apers that Andhrew Carnegie has come out f'r Bryan an' has conthributed wan half iv his income or five hundhred millyon dollars to th' campaign fund. In th' dimmycratic pa-apers I r-read that Chairman Jim Jones has inthercipted a letther fr'm the Prince iv Wales to Mack congratulatin' him on his appintmint as gintleman-in-waitin' to th' queen.
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