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All maids love it an' so'll she, 'spite all 'er skittish ways on 'er mouth, mind!" But I hasted away, nor paused until I was some distance down the road, then glancing back, I saw Diana bestow on this frightful old creature all that remained of our dinner, and money besides. "A truly dreadful old person, Diana!" said I, as she joined me. "I wonder you can stop to consort or speak with such "
How suspicious you are!" "Ah, so'll you be when you get as old as I am," said Jem, creeping back to where Don was standing, looking inward. "Well, what sort of a place is it, Mas' Don?" "I can't see in far, but the cavern seems to go right in, like a long crooked passage." "Crooked enough, and long enough," grumbled Jem. "Hark!" Don listened, and heard a faint hail.
Well, we ain't married yet." "But you're goin' to be, I should presume likely." "Maybe so; but not for a good while, anyhow. If I am it won't make any difference far's you and me are concerned, ma'am. Nor Mr. Parker, either; he'll stay here and work long's you want him, married or not. And so'll I." "Well, I suppose that's one comfort, anyhow.
Had I a right to imperil those who were sailing with me? Was it not my duty, even at this eleventh hour, to order the Whim back? I turned to Tommy, saying: "You didn't ship for this kind of thing, old man. If anything happens to you I'll feel like the devil." "So'll I," he grinned.
Such heaps of good things in the pantry! And then the dinner! The big roast turkey, and celery, and a big dish of red cranberries, and other good things! "I got the wish-bone!" cried Rose, as she finished her plate. "Let me help pull it with you, when it gets dry!" begged Russ, and then, in a whisper, he said: "If I get the wish I'll wish we could find the ghost." "So'll I," said Rose.
He jist looks at the others, an' he says, kind o' gruff like, 'Go on, yous; don't you mind me. "Well, it was my turn this time, an' I jist bust out louder'n the twins. An' I says, 'Oh, Jake, I says, 'he'll die if we don't adopt him, too, an' so'll I! I says.
She turned her fair face, and pale, greedy eyes, as she passed, and lifted her hand languidly in recognition of Holmes. Polston's face coloured. "I've heered," he said, holding out his grimy hand. "I wish yoh well, Stephen, boy. So'll the old 'oman. Yoh'll come an' see us, soon? Ye'r' lookin' fagged, an' yer eyes is gettin' more like yer father's.
"Did I bring enough?" enquired Conrad. "They'll do." "So'll ye, me lad," said Murphy behind his hand to Tressa. "Faith, but ye've a way wid ye. Here I was hoping for a bang-up spree, wid me houlding the watch till me blood got riled; and all that rat of a kid does is to dr-rop a few hundred husky bohunks into his pocket and lug 'em up the bank to overtime on a foine night like this.
"Nor a man neither," said Williams. "She's been scared to death because the fellows was scared of her and started in wrong." "So'll the man be that tries to ride her. Say, I seen that copper-colored, china-eyed, she-son of a Kansas cyclone put Bull O'Toole so far to the bad once that his return ticket expired long before he got back. I tell you, kid, she's outlaw.
The new railroad company'll put up bonds, and so'll the loggin' company if you say so."
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