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I've seen 'em, dead, dull-lookin' round stones that'll crack open, chock full o' red garnits as an egg is o' meat." "Geodes!" cried Dakie Thayne. Jim Holden turned round and looked at him as if he thought he had got hold of some new-fashioned expletive, possibly a pretty hard one. They came down, now, on the other side of the Cliff, and struck the ford.
I don't know why everything should have happened as it did, just in these few days; except that this book was to be all printed by the twenty-third of April, and it all had to go in. That very afternoon there came a letter to Miss Euphrasia from Mr. Dakie Thayne. He had found Mr. Farron Saftleigh in Dubuque; he had pressed him close upon the matter of his transactions with Mrs.
"It's all ready, Dakie, here; but I can't go just now, not unless they want me very much, and then you'll come, please, won't you, and let me know again?" said Leslie, bundling up the mass of cambric, and piling it upon Dakie's arms. Dakie looked disappointed, but promised, and departed. They were finding him useful upstairs, and Leslie had begged him to help.
I did not know how afraid Miss Pennington could be of a little thing before. I don't know, now, how much of it was fun; for, as Dakie Thayne said, it was agonizingly funny. What must have happened to him after we got back and he left us I cannot imagine; he didn't laugh much there, and it must have been a misery of politeness.
I'd rather be a gentleman!" said Dakie Thayne. "You've got the best of it!" This came from Marmaduke Wharne, as the door closed upon the boy, and the stage rolled down the road toward Cherry Mountain. There is a "best" to be got out of everything; but it is neither the best of place or possession, nor the chuckle of the last word.
Dakie Thayne jumped down off the front seat, and held up his arms to help Leslie out over the wheel, upon her declaring that she must go and do the errand herself, to get a nearer look at Hoskins life. Dakie Thayne had been asked, at Leslie's suggestion, to fill the vacant sixth seat beside the driver, the Thoresbys one and all declining. Mrs.
Upon which she bade them good by, standing among her great azalea branches, and looking "awfully pretty," as Dakie Thayne said afterward, precisely as if she had nothing else to think of.
And these five sat down together among the rocks, and in half an hour, after weeks of mere "good-mornings," they had grown to be old friends. But Dakie Thayne he best knew why left his fragment of a question unfinished. The "by and by" people came at last: Jeannie and Elinor, and Sin Saxon, and the Arnalls, and Josie Scherman.
She thanked Dakie Thayne, and, with just one little secret sigh, got into the interior, placing herself by the farther door. At that moment she missed something. "I've left my brown veil in your room, Mrs. Linceford," and she was about to alight again to go for it.
Early September was so lovely among the hills; opportunities for a party to Dixville Notch would not come every day; in short, Dakie had set his heart upon it, Rose begged, the general was as pressing as true politeness would allow, and it was settled.
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