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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Oh," he said, "on business, was it? I hoped I didn't know but you'd come just out of sociability. However, I'm mighty glad to see you, Caroline, no matter what it's for. That's a real becomin' dress you've got on," he added, inspecting her admiringly. "I declare, you look prettier every time I see you. You favor your pa consider'ble; I can see it more and more.
If she was a mind to wait over a day or two, he said, he might maybe be able to make the trip. Lorraine took a long look at the structure which he indicated as the hotel. "I think I'll walk," she said calmly. "Walk?" The stableman stopped chewing and stared at her. "It's some consider'ble of a walk. It's all of eighteen mile I dunno but twenty, time y'get to the house."
"We war a-courtin' consider'ble o' the time whilst ye war off electioneerin'," she said, with the side glance of her old coquetry. She saw his long shadow on the pavement bend forward and recoil suddenly. She did not look at him.
She won't make it any LESS than a million, and the chances are it will be consider'ble more." "But, Miss Martha, you have already told her not to tell about the money. I heard you tell her just now when you sent her out of the room." Martha shrugged her shoulders. "When you pour water into a sieve," she said, "it doesn't do much good to tell the sieve not to leak.
Well, even for that I'd undertake to buy consider'ble many dories, and hire fellers to fish from 'em, too. Humph! I guess I'm out of soundin's. When I thought fifteen dollars was a high price for paintin' a view of a house I was slightly mistaken. Next time I'll offer the paintin' feller the house and ask him what he considers a fair boot, besides.
While the former's knowledge of practical mining was extended, the latter's was limited. "I think thet thar ar' bigger prospects yet, in further," the old locater was saying. "I ain't much varsed on jeeological an' toppygraffical formation, myself, ye see; but then, it kinder 'peers to me thet this quartz vein ar' a-goin' to hold out fer a consider'ble time yet." "Doubtless.
To tell you the truth, Jed, I didn't feel no, I don't feel yet any too forgiving or kindly toward that chap who had me put in prison. I'm not shirking blame; I was a fool and a scamp and all that; but he is he's a hard man, Jed." Jed nodded. "Seems to me Ru your sister said he was a consider'ble of a professer," he observed. "Professor? Why no, he was a bond broker."
For example, wife an' me, why, we argued back an' fo'th consider'ble on the subjec' of his meal-hours, ez you might say, she contendin' for promiskyus refreshment an' me for schedule time. This, of co'se, was thess projeckin' 'fo' the new boa'der ac-chilly arrived, He not bein' here yet, we didn't have much to do but speculate about him.
But he was from Missouri and they'd got to show him. With much more to the same effect. In private, and in the ear of Galusha Bangs, he made a significant remark. "Go?" he repeated. "Me go to that seance thing? Not so you'd notice it, Perfessor. I'm what they call a wise bird. I get up early, a consider'ble spell before breakfast. Um-hm, a consider'ble spell.
As for her husband, we took him on in the stable. He wouldn't have been wuth his salt if it hadn't been for her. She said she'd keep him movin' and she did. She nagged and henpecked him till I'd have been sorry if 'twas anybody else; as 'twas, I got consider'ble satisfaction out of it.
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