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Updated: May 24, 2025
If I did not get so tired of story-telling, I suppose I should be gayer than I am; but as it is, we two get a little fun out of my comic pieces. I begin them half-crying sometimes, but after they are done they amuse me.
'But I assure you I DON'T, Mr Rokesmith, said Bella, half-crying. 'Not for your father? 'Dear, loving, self-forgetting, easily-satisfied Pa! Oh, yes! He thinks so. 'It is enough if he only thinks so, said the Secretary. 'Excuse the interruption: I don't like to hear you depreciate yourself.
The girl sat down half-crying, half-laughing in her vexation, while Aun' Sheba shook with mirth in all her ample proportions. "Dat ar cake's gwine to be dough for eber mo', Missy Ella," she said. "I'se feerd you'se case am bery serus. Yit I worries mo' 'bout Missy Mara. Heah now, honey, you jes dun beat out. You sit down an' Missy Ella an' me'll finish up in a jiffy.
"To-morrow," said Olive, half-laughing, half-crying, "we will all come round the well with hook and line and fish for it. It will be quite a new sport." "No, we must try some other way," said Benson. "You shall have it back." "How?" asked the girl. "You shall see," said Benson. "To-morrow morning at latest you shall have it back. Till then promise me that you will not mention your loss to anyone.
"I don't know where mine is," she said, half-crying, half-laughing. "I must have dropped it somewhere." "Or the Boo-Boos took it." He smiled at her puzzled expression.
The father and mother exchanged a significant glance of amusement at their eldest-born's acuteness; but on Tommy's round face there was a cloud. "Mother," he said, half-crying, "Marty's got ever so much more money in his box nor I've got in mine." "Munny, me want half-a-toun in my bots," said Totty. "Hush, hush, hush," said Mrs. Poyser, "did ever anybody hear such naughty children?
"It's because if I let myself get cross-grained and ugly now, p'r'aps someone else some day will be cross-grained and ugly too. And I should never forgive myself for that. I should always feel it was my fault. Fancy if it turned out a shrew like me, Bertie! Wouldn't wouldn't it be dreadful?" She was half-laughing, half-crying, as she whispered the words.
"Don't mention your age to me again. I don't care if you're as old as Methuselah. But I'm not going to coax you to marry me, sir! If you won't, I'll never marry anybody I'll live and die an old maid. You can please yourself, of course!" She turned away, half-laughing, half-crying; but I caught her in my arms and crushed her sweet lips against mine.
Then he pressed his lips to hers, and half-laughing and half-crying asked: "Who's the happier, you or I?" "You can't be any happier than I; but, father," she added in amazement, "where is your other arm?" "Buried in Southern Virginia as a memento of my work for the Union, but, my dear child, I am here; isn't that enough?"
But you don't care, not you! one 'ud think yer were made o' money an that little un there not got the right use of his legs! She pointed, half-crying, to the second boy, who had already shown signs of hip disease. Isaac still smoked, but he was troubled in his mind. A vague presentiment held him, but the pressure brought to bear upon him was strong.
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