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You saw Elisha that same night, and the whole kit and boiling of you got a couple of notions fixed in your heads first, that it was Elisha; second, that he was a tol'able lame hoss. You expected, when you looked in that stall again, you'd see a big red hoss with a white spot on his forehead lame. Well, you did, but it wasn't the same one." "Elijah!" said the Kid. "And you lamed him too?"
Sometimes a man's in love up to his pocket-book, sometimes up to his appetite, an' sometimes up to his heart, but he's mighty seldom in love all over. If nothin' else stays dry he's generally able to take care of his head, but with a woman everything goes; so I'm purty tol'able sure that away back at the beginnin' it was love 'at drove ol' Monody out of her own sex down into ours.
Both the Eastern capitalists showed up along toward fall to see what was doin', an' when it came time to knock off work, they tried to get me to repeat my little performance as watchman. I thanked 'em for their trustfulness, but I politely declined the honor. I told 'em 'at I was purty tol'able quick-witted, an' it didn't take me four months to study out what I was goin' to say next.
Then he lifted his hat, whirled on his heel, an 'stalked inside like as if he was a colonel. Bill Andrews was purty tol'able low-spirited; but he handed out as affectin' an excuse as he could dream up, and as soon as Barbie had spoke her piece he slouched into the office purty consid'able cargoed up with conflictin' emotions.
"Howdy do?" said the newcomer amiably. "Hope you've been well." "Quite well," returned the colonel, "how are you?" "Oh, just tol'able. Tendin' co't?" "No, I came down here to see a man that's attending court your friend Fetters. I suppose he'll be in to dinner." "Oh, yes, but he ain't come in yet. I reckon you find the ho-tel a little different from the time you were here befo'."
"No, I guess not; for Amos allers said that she was not a very lovin', affectionate woman; though, if he had been as rich as her, or if her family had let her alone, she would have made him a tol'able wife." "Not loving! Not affectionate!" thought Matthew. "And I am about to marry her!" A cold shudder crept over him.
"Waal now, I call this real interesting," exclaimed Johnson with sparkling eyes. "And I s'pose she was tol'able weatherly?" "About the same as other vessels of her class. All yachts, you know, if they are the least worthy the name, go to windward well; it is one of their strong points."
All day long Miss Metoaca's negro butler kept trotting to the front door in answer to the frantic ringing of the bell, and to every anxious inquiry he invariably replied: "Miss Turkey's only tol'able, thank yo', and she begs to be 'scused." Late in the afternoon Senator Warren walked heavily up the steps.
He rubbed his hands still more nervously, and answered me in the slow and deliberate mariner I had observed at the Louvre. "Thank ye," he said, "she's doin' tol'able well, is mother as well as common. And she's a-en-joyin' herself, too. I wish we was all" But there he checked himself and glanced hastily about him. Then he began again: "Esmeraldy," he said, "Esmeraldy thinks a heap on you.
The old man's deck was purty tol'able careworn an' floppy, an' the stranger sez, "I happen to have a couple o' new decks what have never been opened. We'll open one in honor o' the occasion." "This deck is good enough," sez Dick, an' he spoke purty harsh. As me an' the ol' man looked up, our glances met an' we showed surprise.
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