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"Hallo, Paddy!" he cried, checking himself, and endeavouring to wipe from his face some of the clotted blood with which he had been deluged. "You here? Are you alone?" "It's wishin' that I was," replied the little man, looking round anxiously. "Mister Fred 'll be here d'rectly, sor an' an' I hope that'll be all. But it's alive ye are, is it? An' didn't I take ye for dead. Oh!
"Where are the mothers of all these babies, Darry?" I asked. "Dey's in de field, Miss Daisy. Home d'rectly." "Are they working like men in the fields!" I asked. "Dey's all at work," said Darry. "Do they do the same work as the men?" "All alike, Miss Daisy." Darry's answers were not hearty.
First, Jo has to complete his errand of good nature by handing over the physic he has been to get, which he delivers with the laconic verbal direction that "it's to be all took d'rectly." Secondly, Mr. Snagsby has to lay upon the table half a crown, his usual panacea for an immense variety of afflictions. Thirdly, Mr.
"She war up and out d'rectly in the mornin', fixed her own lunchen, talked clever a few words to Aunt Sue, petted ther dog a little, and asked him questions as though he'd been a kid; stopped on the way out ter tie up a rose bush, 'nd so she came and went ev'ry day, and though I didn't realize it then, ther house war brighter when she war ther, and darker when she war gone.
He reached into his pocket, drew out a silver dollar, and handed it to the amazed mountain man. "Theh!" he repeated, defiantly. "I've shore gone to Hell, now, an' I don't give a damn, nuther. S'long, boys! D'rectly, yo'l heah me jes' a whoopin', yas suh! Jes' a whoopin'!" He left them abruptly and he went up into the darkness of the laurels. They heard him crashing away into the night.
The cowboys broke into a coyote chorus that drowned the laughter of the crowd. "The drinks is on me!" sputtered the Mayor, when he was able to make himself heard. "Jest you boys high-tail over to the Long Horn an' I'll be along d'rectly." He turned once more to the crowd of passengers. "Come on, gents, an' have a drink on me. An' the ladies is welcome, too. Wolf River is broad in her idees.
"No, indeed," cried Lavinia, indignantly. "I don't want ever to see him again." "Well, your mother does," returned Hannah with an odd kind of laugh. "Whatever for?" "I'll let you have the story d'rectly, but you tell me your tale first." By this time they were in the shop and Hannah caught sight of Lavinia's white, drawn face and her tear-swollen eyes. "You poor baby. What's your fresh troubles?"
"Well, by this time, a man who had seen her at her first worst an' run for a doctor, he come in with three, an' whilst they were bowin' to each other an' backin', I giv' 'er stimulus an' d'rectly she turned upon me one rememberable gaze, an' she says, 'Doctors, says she, 'would you think they'd have the gall to try to get me to cook for 'em?
His prospect in the vague wilderness of the future, was to seek for acceptance as a common labourer on some kind gentleman's property. The phrase "kind gentleman" was adopted by his deliberate irony of the fate which cast him out. Robert was stamping fretfully for Rhoda to come. At times, Mrs. Sumfit showed her head from the window of her bed-room, crying, "D'rectly!" and disappearing.
"True," rejoined March; "but you were sayin' somethin' do you know of the fight I was speakin' of?" "Know of it ay, that do I." "Why, how did you happen to hear of it?" "It's wonderful, lad, how I comes to know about things in this part o' the country. I know everything the Wild Man does. He can't move without my bein' on his track d'rectly.
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