United States or Honduras ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
May-be, said I, he'll make it out that I'm on a tramp bound for 'Frisco and have touched here on the way and certainly he won't look for my coming back again once he sees our smoke on the sky-line. Nor was I wrong. My mistress was to tell me that much before twelve hours had passed.
If we'd had the luck to go to Hartford, may-be you'd have been as well off as she; and then I'd have got work, too. And I wish I was as pretty as she is, Major; it does seem too bad to be poor and humbly too." I wonder she didn't laugh at me, but she was very feelin' for folks, always.
Did he tell you that?" asked Elizabeth. "He said he thought the music did him good," acknowledged Adolphus. "May-be it was the same as with Saul when David played for him. But he does not look like a bad man, papa. He looks grander than any of our officers. And he has fought battles, they say. He is very brave."
Manuel appeared before the jailer's office this morning with two junks of disgusting-looking meat, the neck-bones, tainted and bloody, in each hand. His Portuguese ire was up. "Mister Poulnot, what you call dis? In South Carolina you feed man on him, ah? In my country, ah yes! we feed him to dog. What you call him? May-be somethin' what me no know him.
"But," thought she, "may-be I shall find out after school." Fortune, however, was against the widow, for scarcely was her feather fan in full play, when Sally Ann came under the window, and punching her back with a long stick, told her in a loud whisper, that "she must come right home, for Uncle Jim and Aunt Dolly had just come from the cars." Accordingly, Mrs.
'What will you drink, Maurice? says Paddy. 'I'm no ways particular, says Maurice; 'I drink anything barring raw water; but if it's all the same to you, Mister Dorman, may-be you wouldn't lend me the loan of a glass of whisky. 'I've no glass, Maurice, said Paddy; 'I've only the bottle.
'It made her look so silly, she thought; and 'what for must he make a sight of himself, coming among the market folk in that-a-way'; and when he took to admiring her hat, she pulled out the flowers in a pet, and threw them down, and trampled them under foot. 'What for art thou doing that, Sylvie? said her mother. 'The flowers is well enough, though may-be thy hat might ha' been stained.
And settin' so, and worryin' a good deal, day in and day out, kinder broodin' over my troubles, and never thinkin' about anybody but myself, I got to be of the idee that I was the worst-off creature goin'. If I'd have stopped to think about Russell, may-be I should have had some sort of pity for him, for he was jest as lonesome as I, and I wasn't no kind of comfort to come home to, 'most always cryin', or jest a-goin' to.
'May-be, said I to Peter Bligh, 'she'll laugh when I go ashore; may-be but it is a thousand to one against that she'll have need of me. When I saw Ken's Island looming off my port-bow, why I said, 'It's just such a picture of a place as a rich man would pitch upon for an island home.
"But am I going to?" she asked, still stooping. "That is for you to say," returned Wunsch coldly. "You would better marry some JACOB here and keep the house for him, may-be? That is as one desires." Thea flashed up at him a clear, laughing look. "No, I don't want to do that. You know," she brushed his coat sleeve quickly with her yellow head. "Only how can I learn anything here?
Word Of The Day