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He certainly does!" "Just 'ike a saw bitin' wood." "That's it, Gerry! I'll have to speak to Shag about it. But now, Gerry, my boy, you must keep still while Unk Bob catches a big fish." "Ess, I keep still. But you tell me a 'tory after?" "Yes, I'll tell you a story." "Will you tell me how you was a fissin', an' a big white ball comed an', zipp! knocked ze fiss off your hook?
I was tired, and forlorn, and homesick for Vic and Stan, and the dear dogs and everything except Mother and I felt such a horrible weakness creeping over me that I could even imagine myself by and by doing what they meant me to do. I thought the best thing was to gain a respite, lest Mrs. Ess Kay should drag some kind of a concession from me, which I would have to live up to, afterwards.
It was not enough that she should crush her, she wanted somehow to wring from her a cry of pain. "You made a fool of yourself over him, Ess! The whole town laughed at you. You should have known that a man like Van Lennop, of his position, doesn't take a biscuit-shooter seriously. Green as you are you should have known that.
Ess Kay or Sally would come, for I'm not used to having persons who have just introduced themselves make remarks on my dimples or other features. "Don't be mad with me," he went on, "or I shall think I've estimated them too low. On mature consideration, as we soldier chaps say at a court-martial, I should be inclined to set them higher. If you'll just show them again "
"Momma ain't back," said Vada, her eyes round and wondering. "She'll be right along presently," lied Sunny. "'Ess," declared Jamie, "an' an' we go find 'piders an' an' bugs." Vada nodded. "Lots an' lots." "That's to-morrow," said Sunny, taking his cue wonderingly. "Poppa ain't back neither," protested Vada. "He's gone visitin'," said Sunny. "Maybe he'll be late.
"Yaas, a Fridays. I say, governor, look here." He dipped his finger into his blacking-pot, and, after cleaning the flagstone on which he knelt with his old hat, proceeded laboriously and slowly to trace an S upon it. "There," he cried, when the feat was accomplished, "what do you think of that? That's a ess for Mr Smith, and a proper bloke he is.
Ess Kay and I in our thinnest muslins went out in the motor. It seemed only half finished, for the steel columns of its skeleton were still visible around the ground floor and the street before it was still cluttered with bricks and boards and rubbish. In the hallway men were working like active animals in an immense cage.
Ess, indeed, a religious fire, so to say; an' I warrant the prophet sat along just such another when he said man was born to trouble sure as the sparks fly up'ard."
"Well, Ess," rejoined he, "I don't know what to say about it of course I can't advise. What does mother say?" "She leaves it entirely to me," she answered. "She says I must act just as I feel is right." "I certainly wouldn't have him at all, Ess, if I didn't love him; and if I did, I shouldn't let the money stand in the way so, good night!"
"She's doing remarkably well in spite of the trying weather, but I have had to keep her very quiet," said the manager, regarding the ninepin critically. "Ess," said Mary quickly, "It's just the same with Johnny Dear; his cough is f'ightful at nights. But Misery's all right. I've just been to see her."
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