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"Gentlemen," said he, "you appear to be honest folks in distress; it is not reasonable that you should be the dupes of this gentleman, who his swindled you out of fifty pistoles and his watch." And then turning to Courtin, he smilingly said: "You told me so yourself, monsieur; so give the things up like a man, without being searched."
"I'm just breathin' my last!" All the hands began yelling at us. "No sparkin' here!" "None o' them love pinches, Rowena!" "I swan to man if that Dutchman ain't cuttin' us all out!" "Quit courtin' an' pass them molasses, sweetness!" "Mo' po'k an' less honey, thar!" this from a Missourian. "Magnus, your pardner's cuttin' you out!"
To that pleasing duty he addressed himself the evening after his arrival. "The young gentleman's goin' a courtin', I calc'late," was the remark of the Deacon's wife when she saw what a comely figure Mr. Clement showed at the tea-table. "A very hahnsome young mahn," the Deacon replied, "and looks as if he might know consid'able. An architect, you know, a sort of a builder.
And his daughter, Alicia, she's eight year old now, and by and by she'll be grown up into a high-toned young woman. Well, Heman is fur-sighted, and I s'pose likely he's thinkin' of the days when there'll be young rich fellers senators and and well, counts and lords, maybe cruisin' down here courtin' her. By that time the Whittaker place'll be a worse disgrace than 'tis now.
"What kin I do with a wife," said he, "when I can't support myself, even?" "Very true," said the colonel. "Now, if it were me, the case would be very different." "Prudence done all the courtin' herself, curnil," said our hero, sulkily. "I never should have offered if it hadn't been for her. I kinder like 'er pretty well, though: she's a sort of pretty nice gal."
"Mighty fine lady," repeated Tom; "an' I tell yer she's married to Massa, an' she's gwine to be de Missis." Venus, the chambermaid, who would have passed very well for a bronze image of the sea-born goddess, tossed her head as she replied: "Dunno bout dat ar. Massa does a heap o' courtin' to we far sex." "How yer know dat ar?" exclaimed Dinah. "Whar d' yer git dem year-rings?"
There was a sense in which the little man could sing. "Where hye ye been a' dye?" he would ask, and answer himself: "I've been by burn and flowery brye, Meadow green and mountain grye, Courtin' o' this young thing, Just come frye her mammie."
"Courtin' ought to hev some decent clothes," he said. "I kain't set in the nabob's parlor, with all thet slick furnitur', in Nick Thorne's cast-off Sunday suit." "The cloth's as good as ever was made, an' I cut 'em down myself, an' stitched 'em all over." "They don't look like store clothes, though," objected Skim. The widow sighed. "Tain't the coat that makes the man, Skim."
Courtin, who was a very intimate friend of M. de Chaulnes, complied with his request; but the next year, in going over his accounts, he found that to do a good turn to M. de Chaulnes he had done an ill turn to many others that is to say, he had relieved M. de Chaulnes at the expense of other parishes, which he had overcharged.
We'll run up a cabin for Ann soon as she says the word. An' you, Jean, where's your girl? I shore told you to fetch her." "Dad, I didn't have one," replied Jean. "Wal, I wish you had," returned the rancher. "You'll go courtin' one of these Tonto hussies that I might object to." "Why, father, there's not a girl in the valley Jean would look twice at," interposed Ann Isbel, with spirit.
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