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I was certainly conscious of a sort of internal hearing of something when you called me, which was not that; it was as though I had fiddlestrings in my head and somebody was beginning to strum upon them. Germsell. Fiddlestrings indeed say rather fiddlesticks. I am surprised at a sensible man like yourself listening to such nonsense. You may be deaf, while my sense of hearing may be evolving.
The carpenter arranged the hall, or large public room, cleared away the tables, fitted up a device in evergreens which was supposed to represent the words Loo and Reu, and otherwise garnished the ball-room with specimens of his originality and taste, while old Fiddlestrings, who was a self-taught half-breed, fitted to his violin a new string made by his wife that day from a deer-sinew.
"He sits, and stews, and frets, and worries his brains about that office, and how it gets on without him!" tartly interposed Mrs. Jenkins. "A sick man can't expect to grow better, if he is to fret himself into fiddlestrings!" "I wish," repeated poor Jenkins in a dreamy sort of mood, his eyes fixed on the fire, and his thin hands clasped upon his knees: "I do wish Mr. Arthur was back.
She said: 'You said when you were here several weeks ago that you would let me pay off some of the principal and let the mortgage stand. "'How much? he snapped at her just like a hungry dog at a bone, you know," continued Gummy. "'I will spare fifty dollars, said mother. "'Fifty fiddlestrings! shouted Strout. 'Won't hear to it! Won't listen to it!
So Jacob had his dance, and he performed his part with unwonted energy, for the sake of pleasing his friend rather than himself. When the lights were waxing low, and the great pie had been eaten, and old Fiddlestrings had been used up, Reuben called his friend to his side. "What with searchin'," he said, "an' fightin', and fire-stoppin' an' dancin' you've had a pretty stiff time of it, Jacob.
His nerves on that occasion had been worn to fiddlestrings with all the fuss and fiasco of planning the tableaux, and thus fancying himself in love had been just the last straw.
"But I passed him comin' out an' I lit in to him." "Fist and skull?" said I. "Jaw," said he. "I damned every Carper into fiddlestrings from old Adam to old Columbus." "What did he say?" "He said we was the purtiest bunch of idiots in the kingdom of cowtails." The autumn in the Hills is but the afternoon of summer. The hour of the new guest is not yet.
There was another sound outside, as of fiddlestrings being twanged by the finger, and, as the boys hastily formed up in two lines down the centre of the room and the Miss Mutlows and Dulcie prepared themselves for the curtsey of state, there came in a little fat man, with mutton-chop whiskers and a white face, upon which was written an unalterable conviction that his manner and deportment were perfection itself.
It is these high-strung sentimentalists who do all the mischief; who play on their own lovely emotions, forsooth, till they wear out those fine fiddlestrings, and then have nothing left but the flesh and the D. Don't tell me!" "Do stop, auntie," interposed Kate, quite alarmed, "you are really worse than a coachman. You are growing very profane indeed."
I have a perfect right to sit out a dance if I choose." "That young chap was too familiar, anyway. I heard him calling you 'Cousin Patty." "Oh, fiddlestrings, Ken! Don't be an idiot! We were only joking. And I'm not so old, yet, but what I can let a boy call me by my first name if I choose.
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