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Ever think about yourself that way, Jed?" It was a moment before Jed answered. Then all he said was, "Yes." "I mean have you done it lately? Just given yourself right up to doin' it?" Jed sighed. "Ye-es," he drawled. "I shouldn't wonder if I had, Sam." "Well, probably 'twan't as disturbin' a job with you as 'twas for me. You didn't have as high a horse to climb down off of.
Fact is, he's what you-alls East calls 'a disturbin' element, an' we makes ready to hang him once or twice, but somethin' comes up an' puts it off, an' we sorter neglects it. "But as I says, he takes a notion ag'in Cherokee. It's the third night after Cherokee gets in, an' he's ca'mly behind his box at the Red Light, when in peramb'lates this Lizard.
"Young man, I ain't given to eaves-dropping, but I was strollin' along here and I heered it all; and as I was calculatin' to give my niece a present " He broke off and laid a hand on Joe's arm. "Where is that dod-blasted fool of a Lanham? I'll pay him; then I'll break every bone in his dum body!" he exclaimed, waxing profane. "Come here disturbin' decent folks' weddin's! Where is he?"
Folks seem to get to theatres, lectures, and disolvin' views on time, and better time than they do to meetin'," sez I. "In your opinin' it hain't necessary to beat a drum and sound on a bugle as the Salvation Army duz, to call folks to meetin'; you are dretful hard on them, so I hear." "Yes, they make a senseless, vulgar, onnecessary racket, disturbin' and agrivatin' to saint and sinner."
It dawned upon him that Blenham must have given emphatic orders and that Blenham had the trick of exacting obedience. "Hold him here," shouted Hodges, and being a man of little spirit he withdrew hastily under Steve's eyes, thrusting another man in front of him. "Keep him for the sheriff. Startin' a fight in my place it's disturbin' the peace, that's what it is! I won't stand it!"
An' in proportions as Riley is a son of Anak, physical, he's dwarfed mental; he ain't half as well upholstered with brains as a shepherd dog. That's right; Riley's intellects, is like a fly in a saucer of syrup, they struggles 'round plumb slow. I decides to uplift Riley to the public eye as the felon who's disturbin' that seminary's sereenity.
"Go away, you young blackguards a robbin' honest folk, and a darin' to show yer impudent faces, and disturbin' a dyin' man, knowin' as he's too bad to give yer the hidin' ye desarve!" Roy was quite taken aback. "You're quite mistaken let us explain we've come to see you and do you good. Don't you know who we are? We live at the Manor. Look get back into bed again, you'll take cold.
The blue lips parted and in the ghost of a whisper said, "Beg y' pardon, sir, disturbin' of you now, but would you min' 'oldin' my 'and, sir'? Bobby sat on the side of the bed, and the icy-cold hand closed on his own like a vice, forcing a lady's ring which was on the little finger deep into the flesh. Bobby set his lips and waited, the water dripping from the hem of his trousers.
She halted in astonishment at the sight which met her eyes. At first it seemed to her that she was dreaming, or that her voice must have betrayed her. She gave her husband the benefit of the doubt. "I thought I tould ye, Boyd Connoway," she said in a voice dangerously low and caressing, "to be getting off to your bed and not disturbin' the childer'!"
He stretched himself out luxuriously. "Now, this jest suits an easy-goin' man like me," he said. "I could lay here all day jest a-dreamin', never disturbin' nobody, an' nobody disturbin' me. Paul, you and me ain't got no business here. We wuz cut out fur scholars, we wuz." Nevertheless, lazy and luxurious as he looked, Shif'less Sol watched the forest with eyes that missed nothing.
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