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Martha thought that perhaps she had been a little hard on Cora, "the time she give her the tongue-lashin' for stumblin' over the first lines of her piece, that evenin' of the Sund'-School ent'tainment. Martha could see her now, as she stood then, announcing to the assembled multitude in a high, unmodulated treble: "It was the t-time when l-lilies bub-blow"
"Gosh hang!" he said, catching his breath suddenly, as if something had stung him, and reaching down with his horny, bent fingers, "ef thet ain't too bad." Then to himself in a tone barely audible, he had entirely forgotten my presence, "You never had no sense, Jonathan, nohow, stumblin' raound like er bull calf tramplin' everything.
Well, I were comin' 'ome, and what wi' one thing an' another, I lost my way. An' presently, as I were stumblin' along in the dark, comes another crackle o' lightnin', an' lookin' up, what should I see but this 'ere cottage.
And then she came back and took her seat, as composed as if I had never awakened those sad thoughts. Poor thing! I knew what was passing in her mind, as well as if those eloquent tears had not touched my heart. Somehow or another, it appears to me, like a stumblin' horse, I am always a-striking my foot agin some stone, or stump, or root, that any fellow might see with half an eye.
But the world's gone round since then, Jane. Even chapel-folk read these light-minded fictions nowadays, and don't seem to be stumblin' about more than usual. 'If they take no harm, their own consciences must be their guide; but I've a right to judge for myself as well as they, I think, Solomon. 'Exactly, but not for them too that's what you're doin', Jane.
Seems like it's nothing serious: just beat up, that's all. Terrible cuts on his head and " "What is his name?" demanded Barnes. "Something like Hackensack." "Have they caught the thief?" "I should say not. The police never ketch anything but drunks in this burg, and they wouldn't ketch them if they could keep from stumblin'." "What time did all this happen?"
Yo've been nowt but a new stone o' stumblin'; an' the Lord knows there's offences enoof already!" Meanwhile, in the room from which his daughter had been driven, Melrose had risen from his seat, and was moving hither and thither, every now and then taking up some object in the crowded tables, pretending to look at it, and putting it down again.
Harve poked his head out'n the loft he knowed whut was wanted an' Harve says, "Uh, come in hyeh an' go to bed. Hit's too late!" An' Rich seed him a-gapin' like a chicken, an' in he walked, stumblin' might' nigh agin the bed whar Nance was a-layin', listenin' an' not sayin' a word.
She nodded her head resignedly. "His eyes was pretty shiny," she confessed; "and he didn't have no collar, though he went away with one. But mebbe he didn't have more'n a couple of glasses." "He couldn't stand up straight," asserted her husband. "I watched him. He couldn't walk across the floor without stumblin'. You heard 'm yourself almost fall down in the hall."
The street was black as pitch 'cep' for the street lamps, and as she passed ever' one I could see she was still cryin' and stumblin' along like she was blind. "It was so late we didn't meet anybody at tall, and there wasn't a light in a single house except Joneses, where somebody was sick, I guess. But they didn't pay any attention, and at last she came to the bluff here. And I follered.
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