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"The house got gloomier and gloomier, but she did n't seem to mind. She seemed to want it so. She shut out the sunshine and put away lots of the pictures; and she wouldn't let the pianner be opened at all. She never sat anywhere in the house only in the boy's room, and there everything was just as 'twas when he left it. She would n't let a thing be touched.
"Wonder then what I'm up here for a-h'istin this pianner," muttered Polly. "This ain't my matters, sartin'." When Mr. Hamilton came in to dinner he was shown the little room with its single bed, tiny bureau, silken lounge and easy chair, of which the last two were Mag's especial property. "All very nice," said he, "but where is Mag's piano?" "In the parlor," answered his wife.
"Confound you! will you let me speak?" cried Richard angrily. "Of course, sir. Glad to hear you speak, and sorry I come at an inconvenient time, when you were busy with your music; and let me see didn't Mr Mark say something about your wanting the cash to buy a new pianner? Or was it an old fiddle? I quite forget, sir; that I do." "Will you be silent a minute?
Middleton, "both thar, study in’ all the flat things you can think on, and thummin’ away on the pianner. You’ll see ’em thar; but mind me one and all, mind I say, don’t fall in love with Sunshine, for she’s engaged, and I’ve gin my consent, and whoever meddles in that match’ll find Josh after ’em!"
"What's Eddication? Did either o' you ever 'ear tell of Joseph Arch?" "Can't say we 'ave." "He was born no farther away than Barford Barford-on-Avon. But I s'pose your schoolmaster's too busy teachin' you the pianner." Tilda digested the somewhat close reasoning for a moment, and answered "It's fair sickenin', the amount o' time spent on the pianner.
I heer'd her tell her paw, who was aroun' ag'in workin' after his busted laig got well, she'd give ten years o' her life for any ol' cheap pianner he could skeer up fer her. "'Wal, says he, 'how in tunket am I a-goin' ter git anything like that thirty miles off'n the road, an' nary way o' freightin' it up or down the cañon to this camp?
"Evenin', Birdie," he said bashfully. "Guess you were sewin'?" "Guess again," cried the girl readily, her eyes dancing at the contemplation of a few moments' badinage with a new candidate for her favors. "Well, you wa'an't playin' the pianner." But Birdie was quite equal to the best efforts of her candidates.
Picked out the tunes some ways on a little string-thing like a sawed-off guitar. Sounds like muskeeters hummin' aroun'. Yes, a mandy-linn that's it. But that there mandy-linn didn't soot her a little bit. She was crazy ter have a pianner.
"What dew they call that air tune box?" inquired Israel Goodrich. "I've hearn tell but I kinder fergit. It's some Frenchified soundin name." "It's a pianner," said Obadiah. "I guess peeanner's nigher right," observed Peleg critically. "My gal hearn the Edwards gal call it peeanner." "They ain't nuther of ye in a mile o' right.
"Well, sir, I won't say anything about the hextry gas, though a poor widder and sevenpence hextry on the thousand, but I'm thinkin' if you would give my Rosie a lesson once a week on that there pianner, it would be a kind of set-off, for you know, sir, the policeman tells me your winder is a landmark to 'im on the foggiest nights." Lancelot flushed, then wrinkled his brows.
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