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The embittered woman retired early, and without phrases. As she did so, I casually noticed that the bed-room was bisected by a partition, with a curtained doorway. "Ever try your hand at literature, Rory?" I presently asked, remembering Williamson's remark. "Well, A ken har'ly say No, an' A ken har'ly say Yis," replied Rory, with ill-feigned humility.
Martinez of San Domingo, he of the horrible experience, nodded with a lurking smile, curled a leg under him and clasped his fingers behind his head. "Who knows," continued the speaker, "but Senor Benito, though strong and sound and har'ly thirty-seven" here all smiled "may be taken ill tomorrow?"
"Well, well, Miss Bunner," she murmured, jerking her chin in the direction of the retreating figures, "I'd no idea your sister was keeping company. On'y to think!" Ann Eliza, roused from a state of dreamy beatitude, turned her timid eyes on the dress-maker. "Oh, you're mistaken, Miss Mellins. We don't har'ly know Mr. Ramy." Miss Mellins smiled incredulously. "You go 'long, Miss Bunner.
The polling day came, and passed with but little excitement. "You wouldn't har'ly know it," said a voter, who had returned to his normal avocations after a morning wasted, as he considered, in the task of recording his vote. "There was a few men drunk in the town. Which won is it? Bedad, they dunno yet. Father Sweeny it was marched in the Pribawn boys. Faith, he had them well regulated.
So I starts at one end to examine the line o' soft ashes that divided the bend off o' the plain an' har'ly a sign o' traffic across it yet. Had n't went, not fifteen chain, before I bumps up agen the kid's tracks, plain as A B C, crossin' out towards the plain.
An' that man 'e war shaddered hevery day acrost Wo-Winyar, an' hees bullicks collared hevery night with Bob or Bat; an' them bullicks har'ly fit ter crawl with fair poverty. Dirty! W'y, Chows ain't in it with them varmin f'r dirtiness." Here followed a steady torrent of red vituperation, showing that Price took a strong personal interest in the respectable man with the two teams.
And the good and faithful young servant cantered away toward an adjacent cane-grass swamp. I was picking up my possum rug and saddle, when I heard Dixon's voice, in earnest entreaty. Looking round, I saw him sitting on the edge of his hammock. I can't har'ly move this mornin'." "Yes, Dixon; I won't see you beat, if I can help it. What's the matter?"
She won't be back for a couple of hours, har'ly, will she?" Ann Eliza looked at him with rising bewilderment. "No, I guess not," she answered; her instinctive hospitality prompting her to add: "Won't you set down jest the same?" Mr. Ramy sat down on the stool beside the counter, and Ann Eliza returned to her place behind it. "I can't leave the store," she explained.
"Why not?" "Well, I don't know, har'ly." She moistened her twitching lips. "The fact is, I ain't as active as I look. Maybe I couldn't stand the care. I ain't as spry as Evelina nor as young," she added, with a last great effort. "But you do most of de work here, anyways," said her suitor doubtfully.
"Ye better l'ave that with me for the dollar that's owing me. If ye have money to buy new axes ye can't be broke entirely." Or: "Slip the halter on that calf behind there. The mother hasn't enough to keep it alive. There's har'ly a dollar's wort' of hide on its bones, but I'll take it to save it droppin' on the road." Or, he would try sarcasm: "Well, we'll be shuttin' her down in the spring.
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