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Why, it only cost me a dollar and a quarter." "Allow me to ask your acceptance of this bill to pay you for the use of it." "Land sakes! why, you've given me ten dollars!" "It's all right. It came from the passengers. They gave me something too." "You didn't tell me your name." "My name is Harry Vane." "Do you live round here? I never heerd the name afore." "I've just come to the village.
After I'd got real miserable, I heerd a soft step comin' up stairs, and Major come in and looked at me and then out of the winder. "What's the matter of you, Anny?" said she. "Nothing," says I, as sulky as you please.
Dun'no' when I hev heerd so many bluebirds or sech chirky ones. An' the sky's wonderful an' the ground's jest right. It's goin' to be a dreadful good year for farmin'." There was in his mind no premonition of trouble on his receiving from the lumbering stage an envelope directed to him in Elizabeth's own hand. It was only that she was getting able to write to him herself.
I went down thar last night an' tried to call 'er to the door, but she wouldn't stir a peg. As soon as she heerd me at the fence she blowed out 'er light an' wouldn't let on no more'n ef I was a dog a-barkin'. Now, I hold that she hain't got no call to treat me that away. I never tuck no hand in 'er disputes with my wife, an' ef hard things has been said about Sally, why they never come from me.
She reached The Poplars after much toil and travail. Mistress Fagan, Irish, house-servant, opened the door, at which Nurse Byloe knocked softly, as she was in the habit of doing at the doors of those who sent for her. "Have you heerd anything yet, Kitty Fagan?" asked Nurse Byloe. "Niver a blissed word," said she.
We thought it best to tell the Oracle quietly. He was deeply interested, but not surprised. "I've heerd of such cases before," he said. But the Oracle was a gentleman. "There's things that a man wants to keep to himself that ain't his business," he said.
And when we got into the house of some dreadful woman from Heaven knows where, imagine my feelings at overhearing this conversation: 'What may be your family name, ma'am? 'Schneidekoupon is my name, replies Julia, very tall and straight. 'Have you any friends whom I should likely know? 'I think not, says Julia, severely. 'Wal! I don't seem to remember of ever having heerd the name.
Ain't you the man that shot a feller out West? Seems to me I heerd somethin' about it." "Which one did you hear about?" Austen asked. "Good Lord!" said Mr. Putter, "you didn't shoot more'n one, did you?" It was just three o'clock when Austen drove into the semicircle opposite the Widow Peasley's, rang Mr.
"They said, or at least Pritchen did, that he killed an Injun woman some years back." "What!" "Yes, that's what he said. But, my, you should have seed the parson then. He was jist like a tager, an' I never heerd a man say sich cuttin' things in all my life. He jist went fer Pritchen an' opened up a page in his history which 'ud make ye creep.
I thought, as Elizabeth was coming home, that a body could do no less than make things agreeable. My daughter has now grown to womans estate, and is from this moment mistress of my house, said the Judge; it is proper that all who live with me address her as Miss Temple. Do tell! exclaimed Remarkable, a little aghast; well, who ever heerd of a young womans being called Miss?
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