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His aunt met him angrily on the porch. "Thar ye are at last, and yer's a stranger waitin to see you. He's been axin all sorts o' questions, about the house and the business, and kinder snoopin' round permiskiss. I don't like his looks, Jeff, but thet's no reason why ye should be gallivantin' round in business hours."
"I'm drawin' it now!" sneered the gunman. "I ain't workin' for no pussy-kitten specimen which spends his time gallivantin' around the country with a girl, makin' believe he's bossin', when " Here he added something that made the outfit gasp and stiffen. As he neared the conclusion of the speech, his right hand fell to his gun-holster.
Now, I hain't been a-raftin' logs down to the settlemints o' Kaintuck fer nigh on to twenty year fer nothin', An' I know gallivantin' is diff'ent with us mountain fellers an' you furriners, in the premises, anyways, as them lawyers up to court says; though I reckon hit's purty much the same atter the premises is over. Whar you says "courtin'," now, we says "talkin' to."
I never was so astonished in my life. I said, says I, 'It can't be. 'Well, ses 'e, 'tha's what she told me, ses 'e. 'But, ses I, 'she is the last woman in the world to go gallivantin' off East, ses I. An' ses he, 'But it comes from good authority, ses he. 'Well, then, it must be so, ses I. But, land sakes! do tell me all about it. How come you to make up y'r mind?
Bonny enough tricked oot in her furbelows, gallivantin' wi' every royster fra Pe'rith. Bonny enough that be all ye think on. She's bin a proper parson's niece the giddy, feckless creature, an she'd mak' ye a proper sort o' wife, Tony Garstin, ye great, fond booby. She pushed back her chair, and, hurriedly clattering the crockery, began to clear away the supper.
Sherman she told me, when I first went there, an' Radcliffe was a little baby, she 'strickly forbid anybody to touch'm. It was on account o' what she called germs or somethin'. Well, I never had no particular yearnin' to inflect him with none o' my germs, but when she was off gallivantin', an' that poor little lonesome fella used to cry, an' put out his arms to be took, I'd take'm, an' give'm the only reel mother-huggin' he ever had in his life, an' no harm to any of us to me that give it, or him that got it, or her that was no wiser.
His voice was a note too high, and Randerson wondered whether, without the evidence of his eyes, he would have suspected Masten. He decided that he would, and his smile was a trifle grim. "I reckon Catherson is a regular dodger," he returned. "He's always gallivantin' around the country when somebody wants to see him." He smiled gently at Hagar, with perhaps just a little pity.
Well, so'm I busy, or I should 'a' been up after you before this. Guess you've stayed at that hospital 'bout long enough. You might 's well be helpin' me as gallivantin' round with Tom, Dick, and Harry." "I thought I was going to stay all summer," faltered Polly. "I did n't make no special agreement, and now there's cannin' and picklin' and what-not to do, I could keep you out o' mischief easy.
"Gallivantin' 'round the way you is, you ain't got no idea of the aggervations w'ich keeps comin' up in connection wid an occasion sech ez this one, an' mo' 'specially the aggervations w'ich pussonally afflicts the director-general of the same, w'ich I is him." "I been hearin' somethings myse'f," said Jeff.
He used to lay a bit of a buggy-trace on the table, after supper: 'There, Molly, says he; 'that's for girls as goes gallivantin' about after night ; an' many's the dose of it Molly got for flyin' round in the moonlight. Consequently, as you might say, she growed up to be the best girl, an' the cleverest, in the district.
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