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"Excusin' these here clothes I've got on and these here boots, which ain't paid fur yet, but are charged up to me on Felsburg Brothers' books and Mister M. Biederman's books, I didn't spend only a dollar a day, or mebbe two dollars, and once three dollars in a single day out of whut was comin' to me. The Judge here, he let me have that out of his own pocket; and I paid him back.
'Damn Private Dormer and you too! said Bobby Wick, running the blotter over the half-finished letter. 'Tell him I'll come in the morning. ''E's awful bad, sir, said the voice hesitatingly. There was an undecided squelching of heavy boots. 'Well? said Bobby impatiently. 'Excusin' 'imself before 'and for takin' the liberty, 'e says it would be a comfort for to assist 'im, sir, if 'Tattoo lao!
With a curious gesture, half of grief, half of defiance, the drayman tore a scrap of black lining from his coat, and tied it to his whip. "Tom was pretty well known to be a terror to some folk, specially liars an' raskills," he said "An' I aint excusin' murder. But all the same I'm in mourning for Tom an' 'is little Kiddie, an' I don't care who knows it!"
We've been excusin' of ourselves by saying poverty has paralyzed us, and we couldn't do this and we couldn't do that, because we didn't have the cash. Well, I'm here to say it ain't so. What we've been lackin' ain't so much the money as the spirit, and it's took a woman to make us find it out."
Take this chair, Mis' Jernigan; she's been sick, you know" with a nod to Miss Gibbie "and if you'll be excusin' of my sayin' so for you, Miss Mary, I'll just say, make yourselves to home the best you can while we say what we come for. Make yourselves to home!" "Oh, of course!" Mary Cary caught her breath. "Please pardon me. I was so surprised to see you and I'm so glad. Do sit down, Mrs.
I liked that young man's face, 'im I met comin' out of my 'ouse that night, and I thought afterward the woman might 'ave done 'im a bitter wrong, which, of course, ain't excusin' 'im for the dreadful crime of murder, and I wouldn't 'ave you think it " "Then you know something that might be harmful to Mr. Vernon?" Jimmie interrupted. He began to suspect the situation. "That's it, sir!"
The way I look at it is this: you took Jeff when you knowed what a comical devil he was, and I presume you ha'n't got quite the same right to be disappointed in what he done as if you hadn't knowed. Now mind, I a'n't excusin' him. But if you knowed he was the feller to play the devil if he got a chance, the question is whether whether "
She looked backward at the man on the cot as she asked the last question. "Yep," affirmed Skinner, faintly. "Daddy air sick," she explained. "You'll be excusin' 'im if he don't talk. I'll do all the gabbin' if ye don't mind." Tessibel had regained her self-control. She knew that Waldstricker's presence meant danger to her loved ones, Daddy and Andy Bishop.
"Now, John, don't ye talk like that, for I won't stand it. Don't you go for to set me up again with excusin' of me. I'm a nasty conceited cat, I am and all for nothing but mean pride." "Mind ye, ye're mine now, Alice; an' what's mine's mine, an' I won't have it abused.
Me and you both is thankful his hand is for her and hers is for him. But your heart can be thankful and ache, too. If you'll be excusin' of my seemin' free, I just wanted to tell you yours ain't the only one what's had a great big, heavy, lovin' somethin' on it right here" she put her closed hand on her breast "ever since we heard the news.
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