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I suppose, now, when you went into that room there was no such notion in your head what?" "No thought of it." "The same here. No thought of it. And here we are, up to our necks in the tureen. Why, I've only been back three weeks from Uganda, and taken a place in Scotland, and signed the lease and all. Pretty goin's on what? How does it hit you?" "Well, it is all in the main line of my business.

"I ain't a-goin' to laugh," declared Miss Jerusha, "and it's a wicked, sinful shame to set such an example before those boys, like coddlin' up that girl for keepin' them off playin'. I never see such goin's on!" "We haven't been playing," said Peletiah stoutly.

"But you see I'm anxious to find Spike because " "Well, say, you keep on bein' anxious, only do it somewheres else. I don't want youse around where I am, see? So beat it while d' goin's good!" "Why er no," said Ravenslee in his laziest tones, "no, I don't think I'll beat it.

She wore a grey flannel wrapper and had a stocking tied round her throat. Betty reflected that she never had seen a more unattractive figure, but asked her if she were ill if her throat were ailing Miss Trumbull entered and closed the door behind her. "I'm a Christian woman," she announced, "and an unmarried one, and I ain't goin' to stay in a house where there's sech goin's on."

Joe, excited and confused by the cool nerve of this man, fell readily into the verbal trap. "You better go now, an' not wait to ask Nick no fool questions like that. If he finds you here talkin' with me when he gets back, hell'll be a-poppin' fer sure. Me an' you are friends, Patches, an' that's why I'm a-tellin' you you better pull your freight while the goin's good."

Then he caught the sound of a laugh from lips he had not heard laugh like that for a year a chuckling, delighted laugh, only slightly asthmatic and wholly unrestrained. He began to laugh himself. "If folks round here could see Red Burns now they'd never believe the stories about his gettin' to be such a darned successful man at his business," he reflected. "Of all the goin's on! Look at him now!

I kind o' reckon, the old Gineral did the best he could: the fact is, when a woman gits a kink in her head agin a man, the best on us don't allers do jest the right thing. "Any way, Ruth, she was sort o' forlorn, and didn't seem to take no comfort in the goin's on. The Gineral he was mighty fond on her, and proud on her; and there wa'n't nothin' too good for Ruth.

But, Cis, w'y don't y' skedaddle right now? Go whilst the goin's good! Gosh, I'm 'feard that some one's likely t' git hurt pretty bad, and it won't be Barber! So whoever it is will need t' be nursed." "Oy! oy! oy! oy!" lamented Mrs. Kukor. "I'll nurse him!" cried Johnnie, hardly able to keep back the tears. "I'll go with him, and take care of him, and cook for him."

The effort and its failure only irritated him, and he broke out: "Now look yere, I be as I be. What's the use of all these goin's on? Doctor, if you sez these folks are my father and mother, so be it. I'm learning somethin' new all the time. This ain't no mo' quar, I s'pose, than some other things.

She grabbed him around the neck, and you never heard such goin's on as them two had. Nate come hurryin' up. "'Here you! he says, pullin' 'em apart. 'That's enough of this. And you, he adds to Gus, 'clear right out off this island. I won't make shark bait of you this time, but "And then comes Dixland, hippity-hop over the hummocks.