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"I've heard how the breed's stormin' New York in droves; but they tell me some of us need the money." "I dined with one last night, a sugar-cured ham magnate from Chicago." "Dear me! how shockin'!" "But they're good, whole-souled people." "And well-heeled and that's what we need, it seems. Some of us been so busy bein' well-familied that we've forgot to make money." "It's a good thing, too.
"Sell a pusson down de river DOWN DE RIVER! for de bes'! I wouldn't treat a dog so! I is all broke down en wore out now, en so I reckon it ain't in me to storm aroun' no mo', like I used to when I 'uz trompled on en 'bused. I don't know but maybe it's so. Leastways, I's suffered so much dat mournin' seem to come mo' handy to me now den stormin'."
There was a mighty lot o' talk in the hills, but I was glad ter get the facts and shut the mouths o' them that take ter ter hissin' like all-fired scorpions! Nella-Rose had writ to her father, but Marg, the sister, tore the letter up in stormin' rage 'cause Nella-Rose had got the man she had sot her feelin's on.
Just in time before he could wring her neck round and he'd started in to do it, you understand Brounckers came stormin' and bullyin' in, to tell the prisoner she was exchanged, and would be sent down to Gueldersdorp.... They packed her back that very day.... And not a week after, the pretended runner came in from Diamond Town with the bogus letter from Mrs. Casey." Saxham had thought.
"O, that bog-trottin' old section boss, that hairy-handed artist with the long shovel, is there, is he with his crucifix and his prayers to the Saints. That's all right. He's bin stormin' and swearin' ever since the fight begun; because he's bin obliged to stay inside and shoot, and instid of making a grand rush and settling things, according to Donnybrook Fair rules. I tell you what you do.
"I wouldn't think of taking that," protested the man, stoutly, while his face clouded over. The Girl felt a thrill at the note of regard in his voice and hastened to explain: "I never use it cold nights; I always roll up in my rug in front of the fire." All of a sudden she broke out into a merry little laugh. "Jest think of it stormin' all this time an' we didn't know it!"
But I locked him in, and then the man began stormin' again about his wagon; but when he looked out an' see the boy comin' back with it, for somebody must 'a' stopped the horse, he stopped stormin' and went to put up his ladder ag'in.
I'm here; and as I said before, I come of a very clever fam'ly. He was a little shabby in his wearin apparil. His coat was one of those black, shiny garments, which you can always tell have been burnished by adversity; but he was very gentlemanly. "Was it in the Crimea, comrade? Yes, it was. It was at the stormin of Sebastopol, where I had a narrow escape from death, that we met."
The more I chewed it over, though, the stronger I was for breakin' loose about dockin' time. Maybe I didn't want to go to the pier; but if he was bent on throwin' the gate on me, that was another proposition. I got sorer and sorer and I was on the point of chuckin' the job at Piddie's head and walkin' out on my own hook, when who should come stormin' in, scowlin' and grumblin' to himself, but Mr.
Mark, how is things at the Light?" "Squally as t' Susan Jane. Seein' others spry while she's chained by the stroke ain't addin' t' Susan Jane's Christian qualities." "Stormin' at Janet?" "Janet comes in fur her share, but David gets the toughest blasts. I don't see how Davy weathers it, an' still keeps a song an' a smile."
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