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Well, I ain't never lived in a tub, but I've spent consider'ble time ON one; I was aboard a lightship for five or six year. Ever lived aboard a lightship, Mr. Bangs?" "No." "Humph!... Don't feel disapp'inted on that account, do you?" "Why ah no, I don't know that I do." "Ain't no occasion. 'Bout the same as bein' in jail, 'tis only a jail don't keep heavin' up and down. First week or so you talk.
She rose up in that waterlogged cart like a Statue of Liberty. "Never!" says she. "We will never submit to such extortion. We'll drown first!" Becky heard her. She didn't look disapp'inted nor nothing. Just turned and begun to walk up the beach. "ALL right," says she; "GOO'-by." The Todds stood it for a jiffy. Then James give in. "I'll pay it!" he hollers. "I'll pay it!"
But the sunshine lasted, Marie planted the ivy, and the college gardener carefully replanted it later, "'cause them gals will be that disapp'inted if it don't live," the class sang Helen's song, and the odes, orations and addresses were all duly delivered. Then, as Bob flippantly remarked, the fun began. For Mr.
"'But what informs me plain that he explores my war-bags for stuff, before ever he concloods to look after my health, is this: Later, when we gets acquainted an' I onfurls my finances onto him, he seems disapp'inted an' hurt.
"I s'pose I don't look much like what Junior calls 'a hero," he meditated with a broader gleam. "What a cute young one he is! Please GOD! he'll make a better figure in the world 'n his father hes done. I hope that lily-flower o' hisn will be open in the mornin'. 'Seems if I got softer-hearted 'bout hevin thet boy disapp'inted every day I live.
Angie Phinney! Why, when that poll parrot of hers died, Alph'us Smalley declared up and down that what killed it was jealousy and disapp'inted ambition; he said it broke its heart tryin' to keep up with Angie. Her ma was the same breed of cats. I remember " The talking proclivities of females is the one topic upon which Keturah's husband is touchiest.
Deliberately taking off his coat and laying it down, and pitching his hat after it, he drawlingly observed: "Look a here, fellers. I be ez disapp'inted ez any on ye, not ter see them fellers licked. But ye see, 'twuz the Cap'n that saved my back, an it don't nohow lie in my mouth no more'n doos yourn to call names naow he's tuk a noshin tew save theirn.
"Peter," he had answered, regarding me with a terrible eye, "Peter, I be disapp'inted in ye!" Hereupon rising, he had rapped loudly upon his snuff-box and hobbled stiffly away. And that ended the matter, so far as I was concerned, though, to be sure, Simon had interceded in my behalf with no better success; and thus I was still left wondering.
He was a Yankee, and his thirst for information was not to be lightly appeased. "Disapp'inted?" he asked, knocking the ashes out of his pipe, and pulling out a venerable tobacco-pouch, with a view to "fillin' her up" again. "Disapp'inted?" "Yes; ruther, bein' as I was always fond of children."
The summons was answered by a girl of twelve. "How dy do, Betsy?" said Mrs. Payson. "Is your ma'am to home?" "No, she's gone over to Webbington to spend two or three days with Aunt Prudence." "Then she won't be home to tea," said Mrs. Payson, considerably disappointed. "No, ma'am, I don't expect her before to-morrow." "Well, I declare for't, I am disapp'inted," said the old lady regretfully.
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