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"I hear you there can't you be quiet and not be disturbin' the mass, you haythens?" Again he proceeded in silence, till the crying of a child interrupted him. He looked round quickly. "You'd better kill the child, I think, thramplin' on him, Lavery. Go out o' that your conduct is scandalous Dominus vobiscum!"
"Now," said the constable, "we'll make short work of you. Names?" He really seemed to be less indignant with us, than with the banjo-player. Burglary was a smaller offence in his eyes than "disturbin' the peace," with a banjo. He soon had the names of Edward Mason, James Rogers Toppan, and Samuel Edwards added to his list. "Name?" he snapped to Mr. Daddles. "Richard Hendricks."
'It is not three score and tin or any fine thing like that; it is only a blaguard dhraggin that is disturbin' the counthry and ruinatin' my tinanthry wid aitin' their powlthry, and I'm lost for want of eggs, says the king. 'Throth, thin, plaze your worship, says the waiver, 'you look as yollow as if you swallowed twelve yolks this minit.
An' at one time the wurrld's all beautiful flowers and sweet music and grand poetry an' at another it's all coffins, an' corpses, an' shrouds." She shook her head seriously: "Oh! I tell ye it's mighty disturbin'." Ethel looked at her inquiringly: "How do you know this?" Peg grew confused, then answered hurriedly: "I've been readin' about it in a book. It's wondherful that's what it is."
No Injuns will be roun' here disturbin' me, an' I don't want no white man to try it either." The shiftless one knew what he was talking about, as there was no alarm in the night and early the next morning the army began its march again. But Henry was sure there would be a fierce fight at Piqua.
"It's a real bright day, pretty as any 't ever I see. Don't you worry for fear o' my disturbin' them that's gone, if I do try to ketch at somethin' pleasant. If they're wiser now, I guess they'll be glad I had sense enough left to do it!" That afternoon, Mrs. Wilson, in her best gingham and checked sunbonnet, took her way along the village street to the old Judge Wilson house.
Entering by way of the alley gate one fine forenoon, Sister Eldora found Aunt Dilsey sitting in the kitchen doorway hulling out a mess of late green peas newly picked from the house garden. "Sist' Turner," began the visitor, "I hopes I ain't disturbin' you by runnin' in on you this mawnin'." "Honey," said Aunt Dilsey, "you're jes' ez welcome ez day is frum night.
Miriam herself opened the door and snatched Barbara within, and then laughed with her consummate impudence into both men's faces. "G'lang wid ye's now," she flung at them, "an' quit disturbin' dacint folks that likes to sleep o' nights!" She slammed the door upon them. They stood there a second or two, Wickersham an inch or more taller and inches narrower in shoulder and girth of chest.
'Come! exclaimed Jack, again starting up, 'cut your stick! be off! make yourself scarce! give your rags a gallop, in short! don't be after disturbin' a gen'leman of fortin's rest in this way. 'But, my dear Mr. Spraggon, resumed Pacey, in the same gentle tone, 'you surely forget what you asked me to do. 'I do, replied Jack firmly. 'Well, but, my dear Mr.
Alaric immediately stopped. Ethel took absolutely no notice of any one. Peg sat down beside her aunt and explained to her: "Whenever I did anythin' wilful or disturbin' as a child me father always said it was the 'original sin' in me an' that I wasn't to be punished for it because I couldn't help it. Then he used to punish himself for MY fault.
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