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Updated: June 29, 2025
The next Saturday morning she not only kept her eyes open, but her ears as well. Presently her patience was rewarded. "Squee-e-eak! Squee-e-eak!" complained a lathe which they were passing. Mary stopped her father and looked her very old-fashionedest at the lathe hand. "Needs oil," said she, "gen'ly speaking."
It was quite dark. Then to the rear, where the mill jutted on the side of a hill, he stopped in front of a door and said: "This is her room; she's in there, I reckin she's gen'ly late." With quickening heart the old woman entered and, almost immediately, she heard the door behind her shut and the key turn in the bolt.
First time I set my eyes on you I thought you were th' nicest thing I ever see! And how little you are! That hand of yours, look at it, it's like a leaf! An' how easy you smile. Up th' gulch we didn't smile; we laughed, but gen'ly because some one got in a fix. Then your voice! Ah, I've thought fur years that some day I might hear a voice like that! Don't you go! Sit still!
The room was clean and cosey; there was a table, and a stove that could be used open or shut; Marcia squeezed Bartley's arm to signify that it would do perfectly if only the price would suit. The landlady stood in the middle of the floor and lectured: "Now, there! I get five dollars a week for this room; and I gen'ly let it to two gentlemen.
Adam knew well what man she was thinking of. "I want? Don't you ever want things yourself?" "When I want a thing bad, I gen'ly think it's worth waiting for." "People don't get things by waiting. I don't know how you can stand it, to stay here year after year. And now you've tied yourself up with a promise, and you know you cannot keep it!" "I'm trying to keep it."
Beyond, ez ef some uns had hidden in the bushes, right in the gyarden bed, air two little woman-like tracks en two men tracks." Whately ground his teeth and muttered an oath. "I don't s'pose I kin prove anything 'clusive," resumed Perkins, "en I don't s'pose it ud be best ef I could. Ef she was up ter such deviltry, of co'se you don't want hit gen'ly known.
"I was most gone, wa'n't I?" "Back to life, you mean? You came back of yourself. I hadn't much to do with it." "What's been the matter gen'ly speaking?" "You were hurt, don't you remember? Something like wound fever set in. The altitude is bad for fevers. You have had a pretty close call." "Been here all the time?" "Have I been here? yes." "'Lone?" "With you. How is your chest?
"Well, suh," he admitted, "Ah finds that gemmun gen'ly does change they min's erbout me, aftuh they done cut er melon, like." With the air of an emperor, P. Sybarite gave the negro a twenty-dollar bill. "And now," he cut short a storm of thanks, "if you'll be good enough to give me just one more glass of champagne, I think I'll totter home." "Yas-suh!" In a twinkling a glass was in his hand.
"We gen'ly get it from Fortune's box in the night-nursery," replied Orion. "And you steal it?" "Oh, yes; she would make such a fuss if we asked her for some. We always steal it for public funerals." "Well, on this occasion, and to spare your aunt's feelings, tell Fortune that I desire her to give you some. "Now, Jane," continued Mr.
"Well folks gen'ly drink afore they eat come on, le's have a horn. Here, bar-keep, give us a couple o' slugs." "Got any dough?" "Now don't git gay I'm goin' down to take me run out here's me foreman." "But you must not drink," broke in the official, "when you are going out on an express train." "What?" "You must not drink." "Then I don't work.
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