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Updated: June 14, 2025
For what use eet is for live now I don' tell you. Those ol' man who speak me leave theese rancho he is your father, no?" "Yes, Pablo. And he isn't such a terrible man, once you get acquainted with him." "I don' like," Pablo muttered frankly. "He have eye like lookin'-glass. Mebbeso for you, mees, eet is different, but for Pablo Artelan " he shrugged.
I shall be writing to you, and sending some pictures of the children, and you must let me know how you are getting on." "Yes, there is one thing, darlin'. If you could stop in the village an' pick me out a pritty, little, small lookin'-glass, that I can keep for my own an' have to remember you by.
"For my use?" "Ay; I doubt he thought what we had ourselves wasn't good enough. An' it's him 'at sent t' armchair, t'bed-linen, t'bath, an' that there lookin'-glass an' all."
I guess they didn't know everybody don't kneel down all over the world when they hear the Twenty-third Psalm. "Abel seen 'em in the little lookin'-glass over the keyboard. An' when he'd got done he set there perfectly still with his head down. An' Mis' Sykes an' Mis' Holcomb an' Eppleby an' I bowed our heads too, out there in the entry. An' so, after a minute, did Timothy.
"Don't peep in the lookin'-glass," said Signor Anaconda, now in the pale blue tights of a "ground and lofty" tumbler. "You'll keel over again, plumb dead." The flap at the entrance was jerked aside and a tall, black-mustached man peered in upon the group. "Where's the kid?" he demanded sharply. "My wife said he was with you, Joey. Say, I don't like this business.
"Not havin' been to paradise, dear, I can't exactly say," returned her matter-of-fact sire. "Oh, I say, ain't it splendatious!" said Tolly Trevor, coming up at the moment, and expressing Betty's idea in somewhat different phraseology; "just look at the lake like a lookin'-glass, with every wigwam pictur'd upside down, so clear that a feller can't well say which is which.
"I told him," thus whispered Jane, "an' he said, 'You g'way from that door or I'll do somep'm' he didn't say what, mamma. He said, 'What you think I'm doin'? I'm playin' dominoes. He didn't mean he WAS playin' dominoes, mamma. He just said he was. I think maybe he was just lookin' in the lookin'-glass some more." Mrs. Baxter was becoming embarrassed.
I jumps ahead of the show. God! I musta had one of my hunches. That lookin'-glass I broke in Dayton. I I musta!" "It come so sudden, miss. It's a wonder I didn't die, too, right on the spot. I was standing here and " Suddenly, Miss Sabrina fumbled in the gilt mesh bag for her kerchief, her face lifting to cry. "He spun me dirt, Will did.
The face surroundin' it was stretched wide and welcome, and the minute this here new-comer reco'nized me, he drawed back his upper lip and pointed proudly to his ornament, then he dug up his lookin'-glass and his polishin'-rag and begun to dust it off. It was plain to be seen that he thought more of it than his right eye. And it impressed the other Injuns, too; they crowded up and studied it.
And sometimes you feel a sort of a homesick longin' for your old self for the bright, eager face that looked back to you from the old lookin'-glass on summer mornin's, when the winder was open out into the orchard, and the May birds was singin' amidst the apple-blows.
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