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Updated: June 4, 2025
"They had eaten up ever' single bit of it except a tiny breeze they had fohgotten that died away mournful laik across the prairies, sighin' becawse it had stahted out so brash and come to such a sudden untimely and unexpected end.
Through months an' years of loneliness, of heartaches, of hopin' an' expectin', of draggin' along for no particular purpose, save to keep body an' soul together; with few joys, an' but little else than sighin'; an' the great world made no more for me than a little farm, a little house, an' a voiceless sky above me what blame, then, have I, if I brightened an' happified my life an' his by makin' neighbor King my husband?
An' then Gran'ma Mullins came an' her view was as I'd best sit an' sop Elijah with a sponge, which just shows why Hiram is so tore in two between such a mother an' such a wife's views." "What " asked Mrs. Lathrop again. "Well, Elijah was writin' a editorial when I left an' 'Liza Em'ly was lookin' at him an' sighin' to talk an' I come over to tell you all about it."
"Come, come!" says I. "Why wa'n't you as good as the next?" "I dun'no," says he, sighin' a little. "Only only you know the kind of a chap that everybody calls Uncle Jimmy? That that's me." "But you went out and got 'em!" I goes on. "Yes," says he. "It wa'n't so much, though. You know how the papers run on?" I didn't say yes or no to that.
Why, it fairly dripped from Royce, like moisture from the ice water tank on a hot day! "Excuse," says I. "I'm Professor McCabe, and I was only " "Oh, yes," says he, sighin' weary, "I understand. Something absurd about a will, isn't it? Mother is quite keen over it; and I wish she wouldn't, you know." "Eh?" says I, a bit dizzy from tryin' to follow him.
Them old books an' papers you found up in the secret room are full of nonsense, I'm pretty sure an' if you believes that men are always sighin' an' dyin' for a woman, you're mistaken yes, you are, lovey! They goes where they can be made most comfortable an' it don't matter what sort o' woman gives the comfort so long as they gits it." Innocent smiled, faintly.
'Come out of that, says I, 'and tell me if dead or alive I am. He got up, and there was the noise soft and grand again, but with it now the voices of men, the flip of birds' wings and the sighin' of tree tops, and behind all that the long wash of a sea like none I ever heard.... 'Well, says I to the Injin grinnin' before me, 'what's that, in the name o' Moses? 'That, says he, laughin' slow in me face, 'is the Tall Master him that brought you to the camp. Thin I remimbered all the things that's been said of him, and I knew it was music I'd been hearin' and not children's voices nor anythin' else at all.
And now Do you think this can be the same Mr. Ellins? He sent you to me, did he not? Did he mention anything about " "Not a word except business," says I. "And I must say that performance don't sound much like the boss." "Ah!" says the old girl, sighin' relieved. "I am glad to hear you say so. I should not care to have any dealings with him."
'There never was a Domeny yet, says I, 'as wasn't a credit to the country. 'Ah, says she, sighin' again, 'and I d' 'low, ma'am, they do make very good husbands. "'Ye mid be sure they do, says I; 'I can speak up for my own man, and I think Mrs. Tom and Mrs. Ned can do the same for theirs. "'Be they all married? axes she, very quick.
"Oh, laws," cried Clo, "as ef dat ar would set you a sighin'; I knows a heap better'n dat, Mister Dolf." "Yer don't do me justice, Clorindy," said Dolf, seriously, putting on an injured look; "yer neber has done me justice." "Why, what have I done now?" demanded Clo, beginning to play with her apron string. "Clo! I say, ole Clo!"
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