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That night, with the camp-fires burning and with our tents almost buried in the tall grass, we celebrated Thanksgiving in a way that must have made old Lucullus fidget in his mausoleum.
The public mind, as the public folly is generally called, was kept in a fidget by these marvels and others like them. But the point to which we would especially call attention is this: that while the war slowly educated the North, it has had comparatively little effect in shaking the old nonsense out of the South.
'I have some confidential business to talk to you about, said Sir Henry, with a look at the dusty gentleman among the straw. 'Something you want me to do that I'll be bound I shan't want to do! Is that it? said Mannering with vivacity. He stood with his hands on a table behind him, his long spare frame in a nervous fidget, his eyes bright and hostile, and a spot of red on either thin cheek.
Not seasick, you understand, but a fever, I'm afraid." Then as the schemer came to a stop he said bashfully, "May I present Mr. Donelson, ladies?" and introductions followed. Naturally Mr. Donelson was pleased at his success, and flung a laughing glance of triumph back at his comrade, who still sat at the lady's feet, though he, too, was beginning to fidget and look about for a way of escape. Mrs.
"I am not in such a hurry to go to sleep as you are, thank goodness." Monsieur, suddenly and evidently annoyed, says: "But what is the matter, my dear? You fidget and fidget I want to sleep." He turns over as he speaks. "I fidget! I am simply feeling for my hot-water bottle; you are irritating." "Your hot-water bottle?" is Monsieur's reply, with a grunt.
"I would be quiet if he liked, and as to talking rationally, I flattered myself I was doing that now." He fretted, pished, and pshawed. "Very good," I thought; "you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain.
"What do you keep looking behind for, Tom?" "Oh, nothing." "You fidget me, Tom!" "Can't help it. I shall be like that till daylight. They have shaken my nerves among them." "Don't give way to such nonsense. What are you afraid of?" "I am not afraid of anything. Come, George, another run." "Oh, as you like. This beats all."
He remembered that as he had stood there, he had felt afraid to move or fidget in the least bit, and that every now and then, as he had stolen a glance at her, he had seen that her large dark eyes had been fixed upon him. He had been very glad when the nursery dinner-bell rang and he was obliged to go, without seeming to wish to run away.
A renewed splashing in the canal turned the attention of the watchers from the tree-cutting, and they saw that a single wise excavator was at work, carrying forward the head of the ditch. There was no impatience or desire to fidget left in Jabe Smith now.
"Nice boy," grinned Tommy O'Connor. Then he began to fidget. He ought to go out and buy a paper. See what was doing. See what became of Mac and the rest of the boys. Maybe they'd all been nabbed. But they couldn't do him harm. On account nobody knew where he was. No pal. No dame. Nobody knew he was sitting here in the room looking at the snow and just thinking.
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