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"Shut up, Tol'able," Buckley Simmons interposed, "you'll hurt trade. Gordon's the Dandy Dick of Greenstream." "Haven't I a right to as many suits of clothes as I've a mind to?" Gordon demanded belligerently. "Sure you have, Gord. You certainly have," a pacific chorus replied. "I want one like the last drummer wore through here," he continued; "a check suit with braid on all the edges."
The book is measurably inferior to "Gold and Iron," but shows to a degree the same qualities of studied background and selective presentation of aspects in character which are most satisfyingly presented in his novels. In "Lonely Valleys," "Tol'able David," and "The Thrush in the Hedge," Mr.
The stranger produced a match, and lighted a cigar, saying, as he did so, "Decentish kind o' wench you've got round there, stranger." "Why, I reckon she is tol'able fair," said Haley, blowing the smoke out of his mouth. "Taking her down south?" said the man. Haley nodded, and smoked on. "Plantation hand?" said the man.
"Won't ye come inside an' sot ye cheers?" invited Parish, but the elder man shook his head as he wiped his perspiring and dust-caked face on the sleeve of his shirt. "Ther breeze is stirrin' tol'able fresh out hyar," suggested Aaron, "an thet old walnuck tree casts down a right grateful shade. I'd jest es lieve talk out hyar ef hit suits ye."
"I'm very well, thank ye, Lorency, an' glad to see you looking so peart," he responded pleasantly. "How's Mr. Ware and the people? All well, I hope." "All tol'able, Mahs'r, thank ye." "Well, tie the horse, and get me some dinner, gal. I haven't eaten since I left home."
"Well, Johanna," said Garnet, driving, "had a good time?" "Yass, seh." "What's made Miss Barb so quiet all day; doesn't she like our friend?" The answer was a bashful drawl "I reckon she like him tol'able, seh." "If you think Miss Barb would be pleased you can change to this seat beside me, Johanna." The master drew rein and she made the change. He spoke again.
Picardy that thar'll be loopholes cut on all four sides uh that thar cabin, and Jemimy and the twins'll be ready to argy with anybody that comes moochin' around unfriendly. I'm the peaceablest man you ever seen, but when I make up my mind to a thing, I'm firm! Pur-ty tol'able firm!" he added with complacent emphasis.
"Otherwise he's only just tol'able. Fact is, he's confined to his room. That's why I come to do this business for him." "Stanley sick? Dear, dear! What is it? Nothing serious, I hope!" "Why, no-o not to say sick, exactly. He just can't seem to get out o' doors very handy. He's sorter on a diet, you might say." "Too bad; too bad! He should have written his friends about it.
Befo' dat, Henry had tol'able good ha'r 'roun de aidges, but soon ez de young grapes begun ter come Henry's ha'r begun ter quirl all up in little balls, des like dis yer reg'lar grapy ha'r, en by de time de grapes got ripe his head look des like a bunch er grapes.
"How is Melissa, Bud?" Some of Sydney Carroll's friends thought her voice her greatest charm. "And the baby? She's a dear baby! I think she looks like Melissa, don't you?" "She's tol'able they's tol'able. Yes, Miss Sydney, they says so," replied the lad, whose condition as the father of a family seemed to cast him into depths of bashfulness. "It's a great responsibility for you, Bud.
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