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"Yes," he said slowly. "I'll forgive you, Laviny." "I knew you would. I hope you ain't been too lonesome. Did you miss me? Was you worried?" "Hey? Yes, I I missed you consider'ble. I WAS gettin' sort of worried. I didn't s'pose you'd go off to ride with with a feller and leave me all alone. But I forgive you."
'Most everybody thinks Marcellus left his stepdaughter a consider'ble sight of money, don't they?" "Why, yes; I suppose they do." "All right, let 'em think so. 'Twill give 'em somethin' to talk about. They'll be guessin' how rich the child is instead of markin' off in the almanac the days afore Zoeth and me head for the poorhouse." "Humph! I see.
I ought tew hev gone at fust; but they'd sung aout 'Wolf! so often I warn't scared; an' sure 'nuff the wolf did come at last. Father hed been dead and berried a week when I got there, and aunt was so mad she wouldn't write, nor scurcely speak tew me for a consider'ble spell. I didn't blame her a mite, and felt jest the wust kind; so I give in every way, and fetched her raound.
Abbie's a good woman none better but she generally don't notice a joke until she trips over it. I get consider'ble fun out of Abbie, take her by the large. 'New York! she says. 'Did anybody ever hear the beat of that? Do you cal'late New York's like South Denboro, where everybody knows everybody else?
"And the next day she noticed that he swallered hard between every pull at his pipe, and when, at last, he jumped out of his chair, let out a swear word and hove his pipe at the cat, she felt consider'ble encouraged.
The answer was prompt. "No, Cap'n Lote," replied Keeler. "You mean that? . . . Um-hm. . . . Well, sometimes seems as if I might have been. You see, Labe, when he first come I Well, I cal'late I was consider'ble prejudiced against him. Account of his father, you understand." "Sartin. Sure. I understand." "It took me a good while to get reconciled to the Portygee streak in him.
But that the millionaire's daughter had made a hit on the occasion of her first call was plain. Not only had Mother been favorably impressed, but even the practical and unromantic Dorinda's shell was dented. She deigned to observe that the young lady seemed to have "consider'ble common-sense, considerin' her bringin' up."
This boldness of imagery struck a chord in the breast of his hearers which responded at once. It was discovered that more than one of them had been reminded in some indefinite manner of the same distinguished personage. "When she was consider'ble younger then in Solomon's time," said one gentleman with much solemnity.
And he had consider'ble to say about folks tryin' to farm when they didn't know a cucumber from a watermelon, and how 'farmin'' was a good excuse for doin' nothin', and such. And I didn't have any good answer to that, 'cause I do know more about seaweed than I do cucumbers, and the farm wasn't payin' and I knew it.
She had some consider'ble prejudice against my goin' to sea, so I agreed to stay on shore a spell and farm it, as you might say. We lived in the house she owned and was real happy together. She bossed me around a good deal, but I didn't mind bein' bossed by her. 'Twas a change, you see, for I'd always been used to bossin' other folks. So I humored her.
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