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I was for his gittin' married same as me, when we had enough cash. I use to think of that when he was ten, and when he was eighteen I spoke to him about it; but he wouldn't listen jest laughed at me. You remember how Clint used to laugh sort of low and teasin' like you remember that laugh o' Clint's, don't you?"
It was a coarse tow-sackin'. In winter us had linsey-woolsey pants an' heavy cow-hide shoes. "I was a teasin', mis-che-vious chil' an' de overseer's little gal got it in for me. He was a big, hard fisted Dutchman bent on gittin' riches. He trained his pasty-faced gal to tattle on us Niggers. She got a heap o' folks whipped.
But don't you say nothin' about this here committee meetin' to nobody. I reckon you played a trick on me for teasin' you. So you think Lorry is a right smart hombre, eh?" "Oh," indifferently, "he's rather nice at times. He's company for father." "Then I reckon you set a whole lot of store by your daddy.
And so far " She ends with a shrug of her white shoulders and a puckerin' of her rosy lips. "Poor Baron!" sighs Sadie, teasin'. "I know," says Veronica. "And what a big, handsome creature he is too! But I fear I'm not equal to carrying on a lifelong monologue." "Surely that wouldn't be the case with Beverley Duer," suggests Sadie. "Isn't he entertaining!" says Veronica enthusiastic.
I'll be through with this in a minute." He swallowed his last mouthful of coffee, and Susie Sweetapple, the improvised domestic, took away a flat board with which she had made a tray. "Is you real sure you got enough?" she enquired solicitously. "Them porridges doesn't stick long to folks' ribs, but if yer stummick gits ter teasin' yer afore dinner time jist bawl out.
About once in three or four minutes he'd get a chance to say a few words to Miss Hampton, but most of the time he was busy listenin' to Ella May. So was the rest of us, in fact. Not that she was sayin' anything important or specially interestin'. Mainly it's snappy personal anecdotes about Ella May, or her brother Glenn, or Uncle Wash Lee, the Buell fam'ly butler. Or else she's teasin' Mr.
"What does this mean?" he said, sternly, and Chad was in a strange awe at once he was so tall, and he stood so straight, and his eye was so piercing. Few people could lie into that eye. The little girl spoke first usually she does speak first, as well as last. "Dan and and that boy were fighting and they pushed Snowball into the creek." "Dan was teasin' Snowball," said Harry the just.
"That's natural enough. When I was a youngster I was forever teasin' to go to sea. I thought my dad was meaner than a spiled herrin' to keep on sayin' no when I said yes. But when he did say yes and I climbed aboard the stagecoach to start for Boston, where my ship was, I never was more homesick in my life. I was later on, though homesick and other kinds."
I was for his gittin' married same as me, when we had enough cash. I use to think of that when he was ten, and when he was eighteen I spoke to him about it; but he wouldn't listen jest laughed at me. You remember how Clint used to laugh, sort of low and teasin' like you remember that laugh o' Clint's, don't you?"
Said she was surprised to have me show such good judgment. Course she didn't really mean she was surprised," he hastened to explain, evidently fearing that even an old friend like Jed might think he was criticizing his idolized daughter. "She was just teasin' her old dad, that's all. But I could see that Charlie kind of pleased her. Well, he pleases me and he pleases the cashier and the directors.
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