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Joe Chandler had already spoken when he, Bunting, came out into the hall, and saw their cleverly disguised visitor. "Those big black moustaches," he went on complainingly, "and that black wig why, 'twas too ridic'lous that's what I call it!" "Not to anyone who didn't know Joe," she said sharply. "Well, I don't know. He didn't look like a real man nohow.
And then come that ridic'lous business about Sarah Ann Christy. That ended it for good and all." Seth paused in his long story and looked out across the starlit sea. "Who was Sarah Ann?" asked Brown. The lightkeeper seemed much embarrassed. "She was a born fool," he declared, with emphasis; "born that way and been developin' extry foolishness ever since.
"What d'ye mean," he continued savagely, "by coming here with this ridic'lous song and dance? There's the door. Git!" "You threatened to shoot Farge," said the 'Piker. "An' it's my solid belief you done it in cold blood, too. We're five here, all heeled, and there's more outside.
"I can trust you, can I?" again demanded the voice outside the half-closed door. "Yes. I'm awake. But, say, Mary!" "Well, what is it?" "Did you say bath? Have I got to wash myself again? They washed me at the hospital enough to kill. I won't be dirty again this winter." Mary laughed. "The idea! Did you ever hear of a young gentleman as didn't take his bath every day? Ridic'lous. Come, step lively.
There's John's waistcoat is silk." Upon which they all looked at Kenneby's waistcoat, and, with the exception of Kantwise, acknowledged the truth of the assertion. "That's as may be," said he, looking round at it from the corner of his eyes. "And do you mean to say that all the barristers in London will make me say that it's made of cloth? It's ridic'lous nothing short of ridic'lous."
"You see, suh, he was a comical sort of man, an' a great hand for pertendin' things. I never could pertend. Things is what they is an' pertendin' don't change 'em none. But him an' her was different. That's how come him to pertend the Lord'd put the rainbow's pot o' gold in Louisa's hair with a wish in it, an' that ridic'lous curl one side her head, like a mark, was the wishin' curl.
His purpose was rapidly becoming evident. He glanced over the faces about him, and knew that the same thought was in each mind. He laughed as though an absurd thought had passed through his mind. "Course," he exclaimed, "it's durned ridic'lous. Ther's two fellers we know livin' in the hills. Jest two. Ther's Buck an' the Padre. Buck's bin around this creek ever since he was raised.
"Weel," he gaed on, "that was the first exyem; the henmist is that the whole is greater than its pairt. That means, d'ye see, for instance, that my cairt's bigger gin the trams." "Hoo d'ye mak' that oot?" says I. "Michty me, man, if the trams were nae bigger gin the cairt, hoo wud Donal' get in atween them? The thing's ridic'lous." "You're no' seein't," says Sandy.
You could give it to the suff'rer unbeknownst to him, in his tea or soup or somethin', and in a couple of shakes he'd no more smoke than he'd lend money to his brother-in-law, or do any other ridic'lous thing. There was testimonials from half a dozen women that had tried it, and everyone showed a clean bill. "Hannah read the advertisement through twice. 'Well, I never! says she.
I asked the minister if it didn't seem ridic'lous for Kenney to make such a big noise over such a little thing. This where we get off?" The dining room was a large and ornate apartment. Captain Elisha, when he first entered it, seemed about to ask another question, but choked it off and remained silent. Sylvester chose a table in a retired corner, and they sat down.
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