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Sez I, "What made you do it, Blandina?" "Oh," sez she, "he looked so winnin' and invitin' I didn't want to hurt his feelin's." Sez I, "You'll sup sorrer yet, Blandina, by your wantin' to obleege everybody. You ort to look out for yourself some, you're alltogether too good to be comfortable."
"How are ye now? How do ye feel?" inquired Jim, tenderly. She gave him no answer, but glared at him as if she would search the very depths of his heart. "If ye'll look t'other way, ye'll obleege me," said Jim. But the woman gazed on, speechless, as if all the soul that had left her brain had taken up its residence in her large, black eyes. "Is she tryin' to look me out o' countenance, Doctor?"
The others were disentangling themselves from one another, the children and the dogs, and apparently trying to get themselves into relation with the points of the compass and understand what had been happening. "Have yo' had enough, Jeff Hackberry," inquired Mrs. Bolster, "or will yo' obleege me to gouge yer other eye out afore yo' come to yer senses?"
Bill Peters, the hired man, came in presently and asked for him, saying that the cow coughed more and more, and it must be that something was wrong, but he could not get her to open her mouth wide enough for him to see anything. "She'd up an' die ruther 'n obleege anybody, that tarnal, ugly cow would!" he said.
There is no telling to what extent Clorinda might have carried her revelations, but the old man interrupted her with all the excuses he could think of at so short notice. "I was just funning, Clorindy; don't go off the handle. In course I want to obleege you. Thar, thar! Now what do you want to have wrote? We ain't going to quarrel old friends like us."
An' as for the lady, 'twas a pleasure to obleege her, he says; 'an' I'd do it agin any day in the week, 'xcept Sunday, when I don't fight, ez a rewl, when I kin help it. Then the princess, she tried to kiss his hand; but Father said he guessed that warn't quite proper, an' the guardeens seemed to think so too.
I'll surrender to no one inferior to me in rank." "Sorry we'uns can't obleege yo', nohow," said the man with the revolver, in a sneer; "but we'uns'll have t' be good enough commissioned ossifers for yo' jist now, an' yo'll have t' done hold up yo'uns hands. We'uns hain't no time t' send ashore for a Lootenant."
Then, still in the same small voice, now quivering imperceptibly, "Wad ye obleege me, sir, by leetin' the lamp? Or, d'ye think, Wullie, 'twad be soilin' his dainty fingers? They're mair used, I'm told, to danderin' with the bonnie brown hair o' his " "I'll not ha' ye talk o' ma Maggie so," interposed the boy passionately. "His Maggie, mark ye, Wullie his! I thocht 'twad soon get that far."
The gentleman, whose hat was very much on one side, and who wore a short and shabby cloak in an excessively smart manner, was crying out in a voice which Pen at once recognized, "Bedad, sir, if ye doubt me honor, will ye obleege me by stipping out of that box, and " "Lor, Capting!" cried the elder lady. "Don't bother me," said the man in the box. "And ask Mr.
Educatin' public sentiment up to lovin' me, and urgin' me not to be so offish, and to obleege 'em by takin' a office them is my 2 strong holts. If I can only hang back, and act onwillin', and get the masses fierce to elect me why, I'm made. And then, I've got a plan in my head." I groaned, in spite of myself.
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