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His villages are boun' han' an' foot to cotton fahmin' an' can't bring forth the higher industries; but now, without concealin' anything fum him or anybody of co'se we don't want to do that if we can get enough of his best village residenters fum Leggettstown an' Libbetyville to come up an' take lan' in Widewood faw we can give it to 'em an' gain by it, you know; an' a site or two faw a church aw school why, then, you know, when capitalists come up an' look at ow minin' lan's why, first thing you know, we'll have mines an' mills an' sto'es ev'y which away!"
Miss Melissa's hands went up in the air and her voice rose in a shrill shriek as she saw her brother's condition. "Lan's sakes, Jerushah, where have you been?" she exclaimed. "My dear, I must apologize for my condition," said the professor mildly. "You see I " "You're dripping a puddle on my carpets. You're wringing wet through!" shrilled Miss Melissa.
There was but ae thing in which he was na fawvoured, and that was, that he had nae son to tak up what he left. But it maittered the less, that the teetle as weel's the lan's, wad, as the tale tells, gang a' the same till a lass bairn an' a lass bairn he had." "That is the case in the Lossie family," said the marquis.
"Ain' yo' habin' er good time, honey?" "No, I am not." "Fo' de lan's sake, Ah wouldn' s'picioned hit fo' a minnit. Hit's de gayest place Ah mos' eveh saw 'cept Wash'ton an' Lex'ton an' Vicksbu'g." "Well, you don't know everything," said Beverly crossly. "I wish you'd take that red feather out of my hat right away." "Shall Ah frow hit away, Miss Bev'ly?"
"The various expenses on behalf of the young men," T'an Ch'un added, "are invariably paid in monthly instalments to the respective households. For cousin Chia Huan's, Mrs. Chao receives two taels. For Pao-yue's, Hsi Jen draws two taels from our venerable senior's suite of apartments. For cousin Chia Lan's, some one, in our senior lady's rooms, gets the proper allowance.
"If she were a couple of years older there couldn't be any objection. Well, for the lan's sakes!" Her face broke into a broad grin. "There isn't any reason why we should nobody need ever know," she murmured cryptically. Ten minutes later she was busy in the little room at the end of the hall. When Larry came back he stumbled over the machine she had pushed out of her way. "Hullo," he said.
When the ladies overtook them in the morning, Alister was reading, from an old manuscript volume of his brother's which he had found in a chest, a certain very early attempt at humour, and now they disputed concerning it as they watched the fire. It had abundance of faults, and in especial lacked suture, but will serve to show something of lan's youthful ingenium.
Mahch," he straightened, solemnly, and held himself sober "I was jess about to tell you what I jess evise Majo' Gyarnit espressin' to yo' maw jess accidental as I was earwhilin' aroun' Johanna, you know." "What was it? What did he say?" "O, it wan't much, what he say. He say, 'Sis' Mahch, you e'zac'ly right. Don't you on no accounts paht with so much's a' acre o' them lan's lessn "
But de school-teacher, whut live at Unc' Silas Diggs's house, she say': "Fo' de lan's sake, we fought you was a ghost!" So li'l' black Mose he sort ob sniff an' he sort ob sneer, an' he 'low': "Huh! dey ain't no ghosts."
He drank 'maist a' thing there was, Gibbie lan's an' lordship, till there was hardly an accre left upo' haill Daurside to come to my father 'maist naething but a wheen sma' hooses.
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