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"But I was going to tell you about the first day he went to school. One morning Pa says to Ma, 'Well, what about Pete starting school? he says. "And Ma gets kinder white and her lips is trembly, and she says, 'I guess he'll have to go, and she says to Pete, 'Do you wanter go to school, Pete? and Pete says he's crazy to go.
When he drives off in his buggy you can see that he's all het up and trembly, like one of them reckless Wall Street speculators you read about. He's spent a cent, but he's had a lovely nerve-wrackin' time doin' it. Oh, a feller has to satisfy his cravin' for excitement somehow, and Jerry satisfies his buyin' one-cent newspapers and seein' his creditors get mad.
She knelt on the cold radiator and watched him out of sight, and then got trembly all over and fell to snivelling. This was of course because, if anything happened to him, she would be left entirely alone. And anyhow the D.T. case was singing again and had rather got on her nerves. In ten minutes the red-haired person appeared.
Jerome Beck flecked the dust of travel from the bay of his waistcoat, shaking his trousers knees into place. "This has got your Twenty-third Street dump beat a mile, and then some, 'ain't it, Peachy?" "Jerry, call her here, the little girl. You tell her who who I am. Tell her gently, Jerry, and and how good I'm going to be to her and Aw, ain't I the silly, though, to feel so trembly?"
And there isn't a housekeeper of your acquaintance who hasn't got you on her mind: there are sent to you steaming bowls of perfect soup, flaky rolls and golden cake, jeweled jellies, and cool, enticing, trembly things in glass dishes. And when you can sit up for more than an hour or two at a time, why, then you know what it really means to have South Carolina neighbors.
Dear me! What makes me so trembly!" She removed all the bedclothes and pounded the pillows and mattress in vain, then turned her attention to the furniture. It was almost one o'clock when Mrs. Dodd finally retired, worn in body and jaded in spirit, but still far from discouraged.
She was winkin' both eyes hard to hold the brine back, and her under lip was trembly; but she was keepin' her chin up brave and steady. She'd turned to go when she swings around. "Please, Sir," says she, "where does one go when one is tired?" "Why, Sis," says I sort of quizzin', "what's the matter with home?" "But if one has no home?" she comes back at me solemn.
He took her into the kitchen, lit a big lamp which hung over the fireplace, and poked the ashes in the big stove. "You do look white and trembly all over. Shall I call Nancy to see you, miss?" "Please, please do." Farmer King went noisily upstairs. "Nancy!" he called to his daughter. "I say, Nancy!" Nancy was in her first sleep.
"I'm I'm a bit weak and trembly just now," he admitted, panting with his exertion; "but, Lloyd, listen. I know how you must dislike me now, but will you please go go, go at once!" "No." What a strange spinning of the wheel of fate was here! In so short a time had their mutual positions been reversed. Now it was she who was strong and he who was weak.
'I know it's very weak and silly of me, she repeated, 'to be so trembly and shaky from head to foot, and to allow my feelings so completely to get the better of me, but I cannot help it. I thought I should have fallen out of the staircase window as I came down from seeing dear Fanny, and that tiddy ickle sing. These last words originated in a sudden vivid reminiscence of the baby.
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