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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Seems to me he’s big enough, an’ I’m a great believer in never dilly-dallyin’ over what’s got to be done some time. Why not Thanksgiving?" "Thanksgiving!" shrieked Mrs. Rosscott. "Yes," said Aunt Mary. "I think it would be a good time, an’ then I can come and spend Christmas with you in the city." "Great idea!" declared her nephew; "me for Thanksgiving."
"Well, and you needn't make a merit of it, . . . and if you ask me," pursued Mrs Polsue, "one half of your palpitation is put on. You're nervous what show you'll make in the drawing-room, and that's why you're dilly-dallyin' with your questions and stoppages." "Mrs Steele and me not being on visiting terms " Miss Oliver started to explain pathetically.
An' I'd take ter hopin' an' prayin' the boy would confess, so ez I wouldn't hev ter tell on him. I hev been mightily pestered in my mind lately with sech dilly-dallyin'." Again the sudden tapping of the woodpecker filled the pause. "Did ye SEE him steal the grant, Andy?" asked the tanner, with bated breath. "Ez good ez seen him.
The guard who was an up-country man treated this laugh with contempt, and blew his whistle sharply. The driver answered, and the train moved on. I was gazing after it when a woeful exclamation drew my attention back to the bench. "Why, 'tis gone!" "Gone?" echoed the miller's wife. "Of course 'tis gone; and of all the dilly-dallyin' men, I must say, John, you'm the dilly-dalliest.
"They were drinking out of the same cup," I answered. He nodded. "Made man and wife this mornin'. I don't fairly know what's best to do. Lord knows I wouldn' hurry their soft looks and dilly-dallyin'; but did 'ee notice how much beverage was left in the cup?"
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