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"Well, I could be namin' two or three others of the same mind, if I'd take the trouble. It's all sensible enough to lambaste the women when they don't pick up every virtue that we throw away, but what's to be expected of 'em, I ax, when all the men sence Adam have been praisin' the sober kind of gal while they was runnin' arter the silly?
I've thrawed awver your manner o' worship an' I'm sick o' the Gosp'lers, for 'twas theer God as led me to this an' brot all my trouble 'pon me. He caan't be no God worth namin', else how should He a treated that poor limb, Michael Tregenza, same as He has. That man had sweated for his God day an' night for fifty years. An' see his reward."
But his eyes grew, with his next words, remote again in their speculation. "His Holiness and his Grace. Now if I was to hear 'em namin' me that-a-way every mawnin', I'd sca'cely get down to business." "Oh, you'd get used to the pride of it." "'Tisn't the pride. The laugh is what would ruin me. 'Twould take 'most all my attention keeping a straight face.
'We was quartered in a big cantonmint 'tis no manner av use namin' names, for ut might give the barricks disrepitation an' I was the Imperor av the Earth to my own mind, an' wan or tu women thought the same. Small blame to thim. Afther we had lain there a year, Bragin, the Colour Sargint av E Comp'ny, wint an' took a wife that was lady's maid to some big lady in the Station.
Ma says she ain't sure we'll raise her and 'twould be no use namin' her if she ain't going to be raised, would it?" "No-o perhaps not," admitted Janice, rather startled by this philosophy. "Don't you have the doctor for her?" "Once. But it costs money. And ma's so busy she can't drag clean up the hill to Doc Poole's office very often.
"Yes, one hundred and four acres, if there were no other expenses, but " "Whut othah expenses kin you hev wuth namin'? You've got a saddle-bag full o' clothes an' books, hain't you? 'nough to last through the wintah; so whut " "But my board! You haven't said how much that will be." "Well, now," said Rogers, with a sly wink at his wife, "how much do you reckon 'twould be right ter pay?"
I got work to do, I have." "All right, I won't stop you. Only fallin' in love is kind of epidemic down at the boardin' house, I guess. Who is it that's got you in tow Matildy?" "What are you talkin' about? Didn't I tell you to quit namin' me with Matildy Tripp? I like a joke as well as most folks, but when it's wore into the ground I " "Sho, sho! Don't get mad. It's your own fault.
Whethen now, you don't suppose I've been payin' you full wages, that hasn't done a stroke of work worth namin' this half-dozen year? That'ill have to contint you till Ned's back agin. "And Barney sez my father had ne'er a word out of him, but just went home dazed like. And me wife sez when he come in, he sits down on the form be the door, and niver opens his lips.
I'll not be namin' it in the presence of Nap here, for he's a good Christian." "And you, sir," she addressed the telephone again, "I thank you for your kind words regarding brains and looks. I hope it is a true word you speak, for I may need both before I'm done."
Bobby knocked at the door, and, coming in, curtsied very low before saying, "It's about namin' the 'ouse, miss." "Oh yes. Pray don't stand, Mrs. Bobby; take a chair. I am not very busy; I am only painting prickles on my gorse bushes, so we will talk it over." I shall not attempt to give you Mrs.
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