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Updated: June 22, 2025
"I remember being sixteen myself; I have never been so old since. But I was very old for my age, then. Do you think you are?" "I don't believe I am," said Clementina, laughing again, but still very discreetly. "Then I should like to tell you that you have a very agreeable voice. Do you sing?" "No'm no, sir no," said Clementina, "I can't sing at all."
Keith," she explained seriously. "He said your people were among the best families about here." She meant to be gracious; but Gordon's face flushed in spite of himself. The condescension was too apparent. "Your father was a pre a a clergyman?" said Mrs. Yorke, who had started to say "preacher," but substituted the other word as more complimentary. "My father a clergyman! No'm.
"Her ha'nt is settin' ober yander on de udder side er de branch, unner dat wilier-tree, dis blessed minute." "Why, Julius!" said my wife, "do you see the haunt?" "No'm," he answered, shaking his head, "I doan see 'er, but de mare sees 'er." "How do you know?" I inquired. "Well, suh, dis yer is a gray hoss, en dis yer is a Friday; en a gray hoss kin alluz see a ha'nt w'at walks on Friday."
Helena lifted her head, suddenly, "It would take twenty-five minutes I'm sure it would." She got up and walked a little way down the road, David tagging thoughtfully behind her. There was no stage in sight. "David, run down the hill to the turn, and look." The little boy, nothing loath, ran, at the turn he shook his head, and called back, "No'm. Mrs.
"No'm, I guess not. We never have it different from other times." Amy was silent from sheer amazement. Edith understood better, and she changed the subject. "Have you any brothers or sisters, Bertie?" "No'm," returned Bertie cheerfully. "I guess there's enough of us without that. I must be going now. I'm very much obliged to you."
When I come away from home this morning I asked Aunt Dolcey did she need anything, and she said 'yes, a couple of aprons, but she didn't say what kind." The girl thought it over. "I reckon maybe if she's your auntie she'd want white aprons." Her mistake gave him a chance for the conversation which he felt a most surprising wish to make. "No'm, she's not my auntie.
Rosenfeld? She's your aunt, isn't she?" "She thinks any woman's a fool to take up with a man." "You're giving me a terrible responsibility, Tillie, if you're asking my advice." "No'm. I'm asking what you'd do if it happened to you. Suppose you had no people that cared anything about you, nobody to disgrace, and all your life nobody had really cared anything about you.
"No'm, dat ain't hardly de beginnin'. Mist' lanrevel he a Ab'litionist." "Well? Won't you tell me?" "Honey, folks roun' heah mos' on 'em like Mist' Vanrevel so well dey ain't hole it up ag'in' him but, Missy, ef dey one thing topper God's worl' yo' pa do desp'itly and contestably despise, hate, cuss, an' outrageously 'bominate wuss'n' a yaller August spiduh it are a Ab'litionist!
Or else maybe we kin send mah man Sam down to de Station house fo' 'em." "No, I had better telephone, in case it is necessary. But perhaps I had better take a look out there. Perhaps the man from the store may have set the cream off to one side." "No'm, he didn't do dat. I took p'ticlar notice where he set it.
"But you haven't been in the garden all the while?" "No'm; once we went up in the Pines, grandma, you said we might, but we haven't seen Fly, why, we haven't seen her for the longest while!" Grace had dropped her knife and fork and was looking pale. "It was Susy and I that had the care of her, grandma; when you went out to see the sick lady, you charged us, and we forgot all about it."
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