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"How flatterin'!" says she. "Where?" I points him out. "Must be you," says I, grinnin'. "I hope so," says Zenobia. "If I'm really being flirted with, I shall boast of it to Sister Martha." But just then the lights go out and the second act begins.
'The pleasures of hope told a flatterin' tale Regardin' the fleet when Lord Nelson get sail. Fill me out another cup of tea, Hebe." It was a pleasant little fiction with the captain to call his beverage "tea". Minnie filled out a small cupful of the contents of the little teapot, which did, indeed, resemble tea, but which smelt marvellously like hot rum and water. "Enough, enough.
If you had a big diamond hid about you, an' a robber was to ask you if you had it, you'd tell him no, of course." "I think," said Dick, "that you must be from Kentucky. You've got our accent." "I shorely am, an' I'm a longer way from it than I like. I noticed from the first that you talked like me, which is powerful flatterin' to you.
"I was flatterin' myself you'd be tickled to hear I'd done so well. Why, even Marcellus Parker says he may vote for you if he makes up his mind that way." Marcellus was a next-door neighbor of Alonzo Snow's. But Captain Cy didn't seem to care. "Hey?" he murmured. "Yes. Well?" "WELL! Is that all you've got to say? Are you really sick, Cy? Or is Bos'n sick?"
I thought perhaps Miss Betty might like some, too," she added with a sly smile. "Did you ever know the time when I wasn't ready for a cup of your chocolate, Ellen?" replied Betty enthusiastically. "She makes the best chocolate you ever tasted, Ruth." "Oh, now you're flatterin' me, Miss Betty, dear," said Ellen, backing out of the door in pretended confusion. "Not a bit of it.
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