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Updated: May 27, 2025
But when it come to playin' opposite Auntie say, I was right there with the Percy-boy stuff: givin' her a hand up the stairs when she came on deck, leadin' her to a chair on the shady side, and hintin' how she looked mighty chipper after an all-night session such as we'd had. Talk about smooth stuff! I had the inside of a banana peel lookin' like a nutmeg grater. Auntie falls for it, too.
"Faith, sure enough, Ellish; but what deep skame are you penethratin' now, you desaver?" "I'd lay my life, you'll have a proposial o' marriage from Father Mulcahy, atween our Dan an' Miss Granua. For many a day he's hintin' to us, from time to time, about the great offers she had; now what's the rason, if she had these great offers, that he didn't take them?"
His wife's invited you. Shore, if she gets sweet on you, as she has on Wal, thet 'd complicate matters. But you'd get to see Jennie, an' mebbe you could help her. Mind, I ain't hintin' nothin'. I'm just wantin' to put her in your way. You're a man an' can think fer yourself.
He squinted at Lawler. "Folks is hintin' that Warden don't own Jim Lefingwell's ranch a-tall; that some eastern guys bought it, an' that Warden's just managin' it. Seems like they's a woman at the Lefingwell's old place, keepin' Warden company. She's eastern, too, they say. Got a old maid with her to keep her company a chapper-own, they say which ain't in no ways illuminatin' my think-tank none.
"Don't you use them holy words, you wicked wretch! And if you're hintin' at hidin' in my house, you can't do it not with Jane here she would kill you, I believe and not without her." "No, Nancy. I can see that. But where can I go? Even that place in the woods, they're watching that, and they would have me if I tried to go back."
"Murder!" said Long Jack. "Don't do that again, doctor. We ain't used to ut." "What's wrong?" said Dan. "Ain't he our mascot, and didn't they strike on good after we'd struck him?" "Oh! yess," said the cook. "I know that, but the catch iss not finish yet." "He ain't goin' to do us any harm," said Dan, hotly. "Where are ye hintin' an' edgin' to? He's all right." "No harm. No.
"'What's the use of quittin', says he, 'while there's bait left and the fish are bitin'? Why not keep her goin' through September and October? Two or three ads MY ads in the papers, hintin' that the ducks and wild geese are beginnin' to keep the boarders awake by roostin' in the back yard and hollerin' at night two or three of them, and we'll have gunners here by the regiment.
"That's not so bad as hintin' we should loose off on the colonel." "Colonel be sugared! I'd as soon as not put a shot through his helmet to see him jump and clutch his old horse's head. But Mulcahy talks o' shootin' our comp'ny orf'cers accidental." "He said that, did he?" said Horse Egan. "Somethin' like that, anyways.
I've heard my grandfather tell how he'd heard folks say his father was always hintin' in his licker that he was a heap better than he seemed, and if people only knowed the truth about him they'd respect him mo', and mebby treat him better. Well, sir, he married and riz a family; there was my grandfather and a passel of girls and that crop of children was the only decent crop he ever riz.
"You keep hintin' there's a hope for me, when I know there's none!" "You're only a boy," replied Holley. "Son, where there's life there's hope. I ain't a-goin' to tell you agin thet I know Lucy Bostil." Slone could not stand nor walk nor keep still. He was shaking from head to foot. "Wildfire's not mine to sell. He's Lucy's!" confessed Slone.
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