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He was chewing a straw. "Well, I was just inquirin' in a friendly sort of way," replied the newcomer peaceably. "I don't know you," stated Johnny shortly, "nor who you're friends to, nor your camp. I deny your right to ask questions. Good night." "Well, good night," agreed the other, still peaceable. "I reckon I gather considerable about you, anyhow." He turned away.
When we're a little mite better fixed we'll pull out of this sinful land o' temptation an' when we come back" he drew a long breath "we'll do the thing up proper." Pat dropped his glass with a thump. "We will," he said. "We will that. An' it's to San Felipe we'll go. Tell me, did you see no wan there inquirin' afther me good health this last thrip?"
"The master is uncommon fond of blowin's-up and inquirin' into the natur' of things. I never know'd another except one as beat 'im at inwestigation, but that one beat everybody I ever seen or heard of. He was a Scotch boy, named Sandy " "What was his other name?" asked the skipper. "'Aven't a notion," replied Lancey. "We never called 'im anythink else. I don't believe he 'ad any other name.
"You mean," cuts in Aunty, "that it gave you the opportunity of making me appear absurd. Those gowns I promised to send!" Wiggins grins good natured. "Is this the niece you mentioned?" says he. Aunty admits that it is, and introduces Vee. Then Wiggins looks inquirin' at me. "Your son?" he asks. And you should have seen Aunty's face pink up at that. "Certainly not!" says she.
"The roast, sir," says the butler. "The deuce it is!" says Westy. "Do do I use a saw or dynamite?" And he stares across at Doris inquirin'. "Snee," says Doris, her upper lip trembling "you you may take it away." "Back to the kitchen, ma'am?" asks Cyril. "Ye-es," says Doris. "Certainly." "Very well, ma'am," says Cyril, sort of tragic and mysterious.
By and by, after inquirin' several times, we found the street that went to the landin' and hurried down. Well, here was a river! How could the Mississippi be much bigger? It was twict as big as the Sangamon, or bigger, and the big sycamore trees on the other side looked a mile away.
"Ef I'se in you place, Miz Mo'ton, an' you's in mine, dat money sho'lly, sho'lly nevah would be los', indeed hit wouldn't. I dass go in t' de do' an' tu'n right 'roun' back ag'in an' go down to dat gyahd an' say de Dutch gal 'ceive de message wid de bes' er 'bligin' politeness an' sent her kine regyahds to de Dago man an' all inquirin' frien's, an' hope de Dago man soon come an' git 'er.
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."
"Spare yourself the throuble of inquirin'," he replied: "all I can say," he continued, starting up into sudden fury "all I can say, an' I say it I swear it where's the prayer-book?" and he ran frantically to a shelf beside the dresser on which the prayer-book lay, "ay! by him that made me I'll sware it by this sacred book, while I live, Mike Keillaghan, the husband of Peggy Gartland you'll never be, if I should swing for it!
There was vittles, but they tasted so funny. And they kept inquirin' where I's goin' and who was with me. They was the uneasiest people you ever see. And nothing would do but I must sleep in the house. There was two rooms. I didn't see till I was in bed, that the only door I could get out of let into the room where the man and woman stayed."
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