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"He must be awful disappointed, dressin' himself up an' all, an' 'pearin' out for nothin'." "Well," said Stella, "there's more Saturday nights comin'." "I wanted to see Jerry," complained aunt Hill. "I could ha' set with your mother. Well, I'll go in an' put out the fore-room lamp."
The pangs of her remorse were lost in her love of sensationalism, and her voice sank to the thrilling whisper which it was one of her greatest pleasures to use. "Did you hear what a fuss papa was makin' when he was dressin' for the card-party?" "I don't care if " "He had to go in his reg'lar clo'es!" whispered Jane, triumphantly.
To look at the old horse, even in his summer guise, was to recall the happiest moments of a sufficiently happy life. "I'd meant to guv it him pretty sharp," said Crop; "but I'll let him alone now. He'd 'a carried you, maybe, another season or two, with a good strong dressin'; but them legs isn't what they was.
I'd met her a couple o' times in the hall pale little mite, hardly big as a baby, but pleasant-spoken, an' with a way o' dressin' herself in shabby clo'es that made the other women in the house look like bundles tied up careless. But she didn't go out much they had only been in the house a couple o' weeks or so. 'Sick, is she? I says. 'Too bad, I says. 'Anything I can do? I ask him.
Thur's houses where you ken lay your han's on things goin' into the thousands an' lots ov um easy to get rid of without anybody findin' out. There's Buck he used to be great at it. He taught all the gang. The day he lit out he bagged a bit o' glass wuth tree tousand dollars, 'sides a whole handful of fivers an' tens wot he found lyin' on a dressin' table pretty as you please.
"It's gittin' t'wards dinner time, chile," she said tenderly, "an' time I was dressin' my queen gal for dinner an sendin' her out to get roses in her cheeks." "Oh, Mammy, don't don't dress me that way any more. I am I am to be after this just a mill girl, you know?" There was a sob and her head sank lower over the piano.
"Dang this dressin'," Y.D. remonstrated when a message demanding instant action reached him. "Landson, hear me now! I wouldn't take a million dollars for that girl, y' understand and I wouldn't trade a mangy cayuse for another!" So, grumbling, he found his way to his room and began a wrestle with his "store" clothes.
He just turned round an' was walkin' orf to the dressin' station when a shell busted atween us. It copped me in the 'ead an' knocked me senseless. Arterwards I 'eard me mate 'ad bin blowed ter bits. Oh, it's 'ard when yer've bin together all the time an' shared everythink."
I'm in de dressin' room, chasin' around wit' dis lantern here for de jool box" he produced from his other pocket a small bicycle lamp "and just as I gets a line on it, gee! I hears a footstep comin' down de passage straight for de door. Was to de bad? Dat's right. Gee, I says to m'self, here's one of de sleut' guys what's bin an' got wise to me, and he's comin' in to put de grip on me.
But all of a sudden she bust out a-laughin' with the tears standin' in her big eyes and runnin' down her cheeks. "There," sez I, "you see I'm right, don't you?" "Oh you dear, delicious Samantha!" sez she, and she throwed her arms round me and kissed me. I kissed her back and then I went on brushin' my hair for the night. I hadn't nothin' on but my skirts and dressin' sack, but I didn't mind her.
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