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After the signal failure of her little demonstration on the hand of her guest, she, by a strong effort, seemed to concentrate her faculties, and after several trials she roused herself and spoke as follows, emphasizing the short words with spiteful vindictiveness, and paying the most particular attention to the improper aspiration of the h’s. “You are a person as has seen a great deal of dif—”
They leave me a bundle off the steamer once in a while. This one's from the old country; the Liverpool Monitor. It's two months old, but what's the dif, the news is just as good as if it was yesterday's or to-morrow's." I looked round Jake's shanty.
I should have thought common gratitude, common decency, would have brought him after after all we did for him." "We did nothing for him nothing! He paid his board, and that ended it." "No, it didn't, Alma. You know what he used to say about its being like home, and all that; and I must say that after his attentions to you, and all the things you told me he said, I expected something very dif "
Trumble began hotly: "I beg to dif " but checked himself, manifesting a slight confusion. "That is, I know they don't. Old Madison may live a while, if you call that getting well; but he'll never be the same man he was. Doctor Sloane says it was a bad stroke. Says it was `induced by heat prostration and excitement. `Excitement!" he repeated with a sour laugh.
Scarcely had he hauled them on board when the sailors made a dash at them, and it was with the utmost dif- ficulty that Curtis, Falsten and myself could restore order, so that we might divide the fish into equal portions. Three cod were not much among fourteen starving persons, but, small as the quantity was, it was allotted in strictly equal shares.
The gay Bohemian here evidently desired to say “difficulty,” but the word was a sad stumbling-block, a four-syllable rock ahead which was too much for her powers in her then exhausted state of mind; she charged on the unfortunate word boldly, however, and tried to carry it by storm, but each time was repulsed with great loss of breath—“a great deal of dif—dif—dif—diffle”—it was no use, so she tried back and began again.
People want a good article, and very few raise potatoes or cabbages or even turnips in their own gardens." "Ingram is selling potatoes two cents less than you, and I rather think turnips, too." "Not these turnips." "No, guess not. He has his from another man, but they look pretty good, and half the folks don't know the dif."
“You are a man as has seen a great deal of diffleculency,” was what she said, but it didn’t seem to satisfy her, so she tried again, and after a number of trials she hit a happy medium between “dif” and “diffleculency” and compromised on “difflety,” which useful addition to the language she took occasion to repeat as often as possible with an air of decided triumph.
"Of course he had no right to get into my boat, mamma," said Carlisle, dribbling water. "None whatever. That is what I told him, from the beginning. His name is Dalhousie. I that part makes no dif " "Dalhousie! Colonel Dalhousie's son! that young sot! Why, you don't know him, do you? you never met him in your life " "Please don't storm and rant, mamma. It only makes things worse.
Sally, you have ideas in your pretty little head. And once I thought it held nothing but " She put a hand on my mouth. "I must go now," she said and rose. She stood close to me and put her arms around my neck. "One thing more, Russ. It it was dif difficult telling Diane we we were engaged. I lied to Uncle. But what else could I have told Diane? I I Oh was it " She faltered.
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