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Updated: June 6, 2025
Quinn, wid my love, for I know that she's been talkin' to you, an' you've been listenin', that she ought to ondherstand the differ 'twixt a man an' a ghost. She's had three husbands," sez I, "an' you've got a wife too good for you. Instid av which you lave her to be boddered by ghosts an' an' all manner av evil spirruts. I'll niver go talkin' in the way av politeness to a man's wife again.
"I don't comprehend you," said the skipper: "you spoke of a reason for our not making the mainland. What is it?" "Wal, Captain, there is a reason, as I said, an' a good one. I didn't like to tell you, wi' the others listenin'." He nods toward the rest of the party, who are out of earshot, and then continues, "'Specially the women folks, as 'tain't a thing they ought to be told about."
"Say," I whispers, "how about givin' 'em a sample of the butt-in act, so they'll know how it seems?" Vee smothers a giggle. "Let's!" says she. So we leaves the alcove and crashes in on this close-harmony duet. Vee has to see the miniatures of Alicia, and she has to show 'em to me. Also we pulls up chairs and sits there, listenin' with our mouths open, right in the midst of things.
Now we're listenin' 's long's you talk polite 'n' you kin tell us what men them was that was seen goin' in and comin' out and all about the hull dang business."
I was a-sayin' to my stepdaughter only the other day that hearin' is one thing and listenin' is another. And she says to me, she says, I was talking like a book, she says. Her very expression and far from respectful! So I says to her, not to be put upon, 'Lethear, I says, 'books ain't similar all through but to seleck from, and I go accordin'...." Mrs.
O'Callaghan rose with a face bright as ever, but Pat and Mike were still sober. "Cheer up!" was her greeting as they came into the kitchen where she was already bustling about the stove. "Cheer up, and stand ready till I give you the word. I'm goin' to have wan more big try at Jim. You took such a load off me with your listenin' to me and promisin' to help that it's heartened me wonderful."
Ben had a habit of stayin' in his room an' havin' a nigger fetch his up on a waiter, an' Het feels like it is her duty to do likewise. She sets up thar, they tell me, in easy, roustabout clothes, an' attends to the business of the day sech as readin' the mail, answerin' letters, an' listenin' to complaints from overseers an' land-renters.
She buried her face in her hands at the memory of it and burst into tears. "Is it true that Hunter won't take you anywhere?" he asked pointedly. "You have been listening to the Cranes," she answered. "I've been listenin' t' more'n them," he said with the fixed purpose of drawing her out on the subject.
I kept the young lawyer up one night till 12 o'clock listenin to a lot of acts in regard to a drawbridge away orf in the east part of the State, havin' sent my daughter to bed at half-past 8. He hasn't bin there since, and I understan' he says I go round swindlin' the Public. I never attempted to reorganize my wife but onct. I shall never attempt agin.
"I nuver is preached wid power yit on'y but 'cep' when I sees de sinner standin' 'fo' de bar o' de Lord, an' de witnesses on de stan', an' de speckletators pressin' for'ard to heah, an' de jury listenin', an me I'm de prosecutin' 'torney! "An' when I gits dat whole co't-room 'ranged 'fo' my eyes in my min', an' de pris'ner standin' in de box, I des reg'lar lay 'im out!
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