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"You're good at something, anyway," says Cousin Myra; "but but why five places?" She's noticed the extra plate and is glancin' around inquirin'. "Oh!" says I, offhand, "odd numbers for luck, so I took a chance on askin' in an old friend of yours. He ought to be in the cloak-room by now. I'll go fetch him." You should have seen the look on her face, too, when I shows up with Professor Hinckley.
So Mary Jane never see her, and perhaps she giv' you a crooked answer, sir, if you was inquirin' of her over to the cottage." "Where's Hiram? where's your husband? Can I have his team this morning?" "I guess so," said the sympathetic Mrs. Splinter. "He'll show you the very house he druv' her to."
"Not of his own accord he pass that sweet young wife of his like a stranger this day, Sir Austin!" "I must beg you not to intrude further, ma'am." Mrs. Berry bobbed her bunch of a body out of the room. "All's well that ends well," she said to herself. "It's just bad inquirin' too close among men. We must take 'em somethin' like Providence as they come. Thank heaven! I kep' back the baby." In Mrs.
"Ef ye won't tell who teched it, I'll gin a good word fur ye ter them witches what war inquirin' round fur ye ter-day." Jim promised in hot haste, and then, the rain having ceased, he started for home, but Brierwood stopped him at the door. "Hold on thar, bub.
"Let's go a little nearer. The bushes will still hide us," whispered the mountaineer to the boy. "They ain't no enemies o' ours, but I guess we'd better keep out o' their business, though my inquirin' turn o' mind makes me anxious to see just who they are."
Wardle's ear alone, suggestive of higher understandings of the affairs of men than aunts and mothers could expect to share. "Party that's givin' trouble to the Police ... Party I mentioned seeing in Hy' Park ... Party that come down the Court inquirin' for widder lady ..." came at intervals. Micky's respectful and subdued reference to Mrs. Prichard was a tribute to Death.
"Tell inquirin' admirers that his address in futur' will be north pole, shady side," another rough humorist added. The men on the shore did not reply. They understood perfectly the uncertain temper of "larking" woodsmen. There had been cases in times past when a taunting word had turned rude jollity into sour hankering for revenge.
"Wife said she was inquirin' about the circus, but she wanted to know first if they couldn't oblige her with a few trinkets o' mournin', seein' as how she 'd got to pay a mournin' visit. Wife thought 't was a bosom-pin, or somethin' like that, but turned out she wanted the skirt of a dress; 'most anything would do, she said."
I was here same's I be now, an' your Aunt Barbara, she was young too, an' the old lady, Madam Leicester, she was alive and they all was inquirin' what had come over me.
We could either stay out there and stare at the door, or follow her in. So in we goes. And maybe Vee's gray eyes don't open some wide as she views the procession streamin' in. She glances at me inquirin'. I throws up both hands and shakes my head, indicatin' that it was beyond words.
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