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But she came nearer, and I gazed, spellbound; and then she bowed her beautiful head with a tender, laughing smile, and laid her hand on Captain Leezur's shoulder. "Here!" she said. Oh, how he laughed! Robins by the brook, and sun-sparkles. "That 's right, Vesty!" he exclaimed; "that 's right, darlin'. Come and kile yourself areound them 't 's got some feelin's!"
"It seems too bad," said Captain Corbet, "not to be able to get to the beach. I wish I'd come in the boat. What a fool I was not to think of it!" "O, I dare say the top of the cliff will do," said Bruce. "Wal, it'll have to do. At any rate I've got the kile of rope." "We shall be able to see him from the top just as well, and perhaps better."
Thar 's a time to be a bean-pole and thar 's a time to kile."
They don't know what it 's for and ye don't know what it 's for; but take a young man like you, and ef ye ain't keerful, Vesty'll jest as sartin git in a kile on you as the world." "How about that strong-looking young man?" I said. "Very easy, swaggers gracefully with the blue eyes." "Neow I know jest who you mean!
Bean-pole stands up stiff, without no feelin's: don't look at 'er, nor bend over an' kiss 'er, nor nothin'. Mornin' glory don't git skeered, an' she peouts out a lot o' leaves an' tenderls an' begins to kile. Bean-pole takes a chaw o' terbakker an' looks off t'other eend o' the field t' see what the pertater crop 's goin' to be.
She can row a boat, or dew a washin', or help in a deliverunce case, and she 's r'al handy and comfortin' in death-damps." "All that! Vesty and nineteen!" I think I sighed. "Ye mustn't let her kile herself reound ye," said Captain Leezur. I looked up in dismay. Had he not seen my weakness of body, and my birth-scarred face?
Vesty!" said the beloved old man, in that whisper that so thoroughly deceived him "I know 't I set ye up to this bean-pole business. But it won't dew for both on ye to be bean-poles. One or the other on ye 's got to kile. Neow, Vesty, ye know 't major 's got some misfortin's in his looks 't makes him beound to be preoud; ye wouldn't have him other ways. Ye see, Vesty, he don't know 't "
'Yewmer 's that 'ar' 'diction 't Job had, ain't it? says I, and pathers thar' ye've kind o' got me, says I, ''less maybe it 's some fancy New York way o' reelin' off pertaters, says I. 'No, no, young woman, thinks I to myself, 'ye don't git in no kile on me!" The nervine lozenge which my friend had cautiously refrained from giving Miss Langham he now bestowed upon me.
"O, ony a rope or two," said Captain Corbet; and taking a coil of rope over his arm, he stepped ashore, and all the boys hurried after him. "I feel kine o' safer with a kile o' rope, bein a seafarin man," he remarked. "Give a seafarin man a rope, an he'll go anywhar an do anythin. He's like a spider onto a web." Tom ashore. Storm at Night. Up in the Morning. The Cliffs and the Beach.
I don't say but what if that 'ar' Langham girl sh'd have a r'al bad spall o' toothache come on, but what I'd let her take her, but I'd jest as soon she didn't know nothin' 'beout it. I'd ruther not make no openin' for a kile." We sucked our nervine lozenges with mutual earnestness. "You are getting on finely with the barn," I said, noticing several new rows of shingles on the roof.
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