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He wore a black broadcloth suit, somewhat old-fashioned in cut, and his black velvet waist-coat had suffered an eruption of tiny red satin spots. He had great respect for judicial decorums, and no Kittredge, however youthful, or survigrus, or exalted in importance by habeas corpus proceedings, could "holler" unmolested where he presided. "Mr.
He lifted the child by them, laughing in undisguised pleasure to feel the substantial strain upon the garment. "Toler'ble survigrus," he declared, with his high chirp. His daughter suddenly sprang up with a pallid face and a pointing hand. "The winder!" she huskily cried "suthin's at the winder!"
His comforts, it is true, were amply insured: a widowed sister had come to preside over his household a deaf old woman, who had much to be thankful for in her infirmity, for Joel Quimbey in his youth, before he acquired religion, had been known as a singularly profane man "a mos' survigrus cusser" and something of his old proficiency had returned to him.
The Quimbeys took note of his mature demeanor with sinking hearts; they looked anxiously at the judge, wondering if he had ever before seen such precocity anything so young to be so old: "He 'ain't never afore 'peared so survigrus so durned survigrus ez he do ter-day," they whispered to each other. "Yes, sir," his father was saying, on examination, "year old.
But Absalom, too, had his griefs, and they expressed themselves perversely. "He hev been pompered an' fattened by bein' let ter eat an' sleep so much, till he be so heavy ter his self he don't wanter take the trouble ter get about. He could walk ennywhar. He's plumb survigrus." And as if in confirmation, the youthful Kittredge lifted his voice to display his lung power.
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