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Updated: June 29, 2025
"It's no use frettin' over what's done." He wiped some tobacco-juice off his lips with the back of his hand, and regarded the stains reflectively for a minute or so. Then he looked at Arvie again. "You should ha' tried cod liver oil," said Bill. "No. He needed rest and plenty of good food." "He wasn't very strong." "No, he was not, poor boy." "I thought he wasn't.
Go along home and quit your frettin'. Long's you're there, you BE there. What more do you want?" There was a good deal more of this sort of thing, but it was all quite as unsatisfactory. Thankful gave it up at last. "I shan't come here again," she declared desperately. "If you want to see me you can come to my place." "Humph!" "Well, you will, or not see me. Why haven't you been there?
"And thou goest?" Frona nodded. "And Tenas Hee-Hee goest! Ai! Ai! Ai!" The tent-flap lifted, and Matt McCarthy peered in. "It's yerself, Frona, is it? With breakfast waitin' this half-hour on ye, an' old Andy fumin' an' frettin' like the old woman he is. Good-mornin' to ye, Neepoosa," he addressed Frona's companions, "an' to ye, Muskim, though, belike ye've little mimory iv me face."
They want recommendations they want 'em because they want to be sure the ones they engage is O.K. That's all recommendations is for, ain't it? Now I knew the minit I clapped eye to you, that, as I say, you was as grand a lady as any in the land, an' that bein' the case, what was the use o' frettin' because I hadn't more than your sayso to prove it. But if I'd pulled a long face to Mrs.
Medlock stops in our cottage whenever she goes to Thwaite an' she doesn't mind talkin' to mother before us children, because she knows us has been brought up to be trusty. How did tha' find out about him? Martha was in fine trouble th' last time she came home. She said tha'd heard him frettin' an' tha' was askin' questions an' she didn't know what to say."
I should be sorry to have been the cause of your lying here fretting." "I ain't doin' no frettin' now," repeated Ellen. Then, changing a subject both seemed to regard as a delicate one, she asked in a more natural tone: "What were you plannin' to do this mornin'?" "Oh, just the regular things," Lucy said cordially, glad to be once more on safer ground. "Why?"
"What do you expect he wants a fire for?" she asked, turning toward her husband. "The house is warm as can be, I do wish I " "Oh, quit frettin'!" said Sheridan. "Well, I I kind o' wish you hadn't said anything, Sibyl. I know you meant it for the best and all, but I don't believe it would been so much harm if " "Mother Sheridan, you don't mean you WANT that kind of a girl in the family? Why, she "
"Don't be frettin' that a-way, ma'am; sure even if he's in gaol itself, he'll be out agin before ye know where yez are an' maybe they wouldn't keep him in it at all." "'Deed then they had a right to let him out at wanst," groaned Mrs. Clancy from beneath her apron. "The Lord knows he never done what they're afther sayin' he done." "Hothen, indeed, I wouldn't make too sure of that," put in Pat.
"An I'm allus thinkin," she said, with a passionate sob, "of that what he said about the drink. He'd allus bin a sober lad, till this lasst winter it did seem as though he cudna keep hiself from it it kep creepin on im an several times lately he'd broke out very bad, pay-days an he knew I'd been frettin. And who was ter blame I ast yo, or onybody who was it ter blame?"
Between pacifyin' the Commodore and frettin' over what couldn't possibly happen, I was half dead of the fidgets. Stay and cheer me up, there's a good feller. I'd just about reached the stage where I had the girl and boy stove to flinders under that pesky auto. I'd even begun to figger on notifyin' the undertaker. Tell me I'm an old fool and then talk about somethin' else.
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