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Preachin' Bill "'lowed there was a heap o' difference between a playin' a violin an' jest fiddlin'. You wouldn't know some fellers was a makin' music, if you didn't see 'em a pattin' their foot; but hit ain't that a way with Jim Lane. He sure do make music, real music." As no one ever questioned Bill's judgment, it is safe to conclude that Mr.
Well, it's just a squeal from one, and a sigh from the other, and then they've made a rush to the center that wedges us all into that little three-foot hall like it was the platform of a subway car, and before anything more can be said they've gone to a fond clinch, each pattin' the other on the back and passin' appropriate remarks.
"Ah!" says she, pattin' me sort of casual on one cheek as she comes down to breakfast. That's all; but she not only takes in the shave, but the best blue serge suit I've put on, and the birthday tie, and the Sunday shoes. I only grins sheepish and slides out as soon as I can. You see, accordin' to my plans, I wouldn't have gone near that steamer for any sum you could name.
"Well," says I, "didn't the deal go through?" "It did," says he, pattin' me on the back. "Thanks to you, it did. The check came two days later, and I've spent it all." "What!" says I. "You don't mean to say you blew all that in on an engine for that blamed " "All but a few dollars that I put into oil and gasoline," says he. "But the machine is all hooked up, Torchy, and it works. Do you hear that?
"Why it's only Torchy, from Papa's office," says Marjorie. "And oh, Mildred! He is the very one to help us! You will now, won't you, Torchy? Come, that's a dear!" "Please do, Torchy!" says Mildred, snugglin' up on the other side and pattin' my red hair soothin'. "Ah, say, reverse English on the tootsy business!" says I. "This ain't any heart-throb matinee. G'wan!"
"He came around to-night," says she, "to show Auntie some miniatures of the late Alicia. She asked to see them. Look! They are examining one now." Sure enough they were, with their heads close together. And Auntie is pattin' him soothin' on the arm. "Kind of kittenish motions, if you ask me," says I. "She's gazin' at him mushy, too." "I never knew Auntie to be quite so absurd," says Vee.
He hadn't more'n got through the swing-door before Doris slumps in her chair, puts her face into her hands, and begins lettin' out the sobs reckless. Course, Westy jumps to the rescue and starts pattin' her on the back and offerin' soothin' words. So does Vee. "There, there!" says Vee. "We don't mind a bit. Such things are bound to happen." "But I I don't know what to do," sobs Doris.
She's in the lib'ry, eh?" Yep, I was doin' my best. We'd exchanged the greetin's of the season and was camped cozy in a corner davenport just big enough for two, while I was explainin' how tough it was not havin' her along for the drive, and I'd collected one of her hands casual, pattin' it sort of absent-minded, when say, no trained bloodhound has anything on Aunty!
He was a great churchgoer when he was ashore and always preachin' brotherly love and kindness and pattin' us little shavers on the head, and so on. Most of the grown folks thought he was a sort of saint, and I thought he was more than that.
I followed right along, knowing she'd have trouble with the headstall, and I declare if she wan't pattin' Buster's nose and talkin' to him, and when she put her little fingers into his mouth he opened it so fur I thought he'd swaller her, for sure. He jest smacked his lips over the bit as if 't was a lump o' sugar.
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