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Accordingly, they laughed it out; and when they had done laughing, they returned again to the matter before them with renewed interest in the subject. "Well, how all dat explain dis differculty?" repeated Simon. "In dis wery manner, cook," returned the steward, with a little dignity in his manner. "Ebbery t'ing depend on understandin', I s'pose you know. If Mr.
An' he looked up at Lassiter. An' then he stared horrible at somethin' thet wasn't Lassiter, nor anyone there, nor the room, nor the branches of purple sage peepin' into the winder. Whatever he seen, it was with the look of a man who discovers somethin' too late. Thet's a terrible look!... An' with a horrible understandin' cry he slid forrard on his face."
I was compelled to infer from the tone of Grandpa Keeler's answer that his temper had not undergone a mollifying process during my absence. "Come, ma," said he; "how much longer ye goin' to pester me in this way?" "Why, pa," Grandma rejoined calmly; "until you git a proper understandin' of it. What tribe was it in sacred writ that wore bunnits?" "Lordy!" exclaimed the old man.
What would you advise me to do with him? Well, says I, I'll tell you if you won't be miffy with me. Miffy with you indeed, said he, I guess I'll be very much obliged to you; it tante every day one gets a chance to consult with a person of your experience I count it quite a privilege to have the opinion of such an understandin man as you be.
"It's a good deal like you say, Tom," he assented; "I know that. Unless we can get Dan Anderson and that girl to some sort of an understandin', the jig's up, and there ain't a-goin' to be no railroad at Heart's Desire. But how're you a-goin' to do that?" "Well, I done told you what I thought," said Tom Osby. "I'm a married man, been married seven times, or maybe six.
But I guess we'd better have a clear understandin', all of us. Caroline, will you come in here, please?" He stepped toward the door. Stephen sprang in front of him. "My sister doesn't intend to cheapen herself by entering that man's presence," he declared, hotly. "I'll deal with him, myself!" "All right. But I guess she'd better be here, just the same. Caroline, I want you." "She sha'n't come!"
Course we didn't cal'late anything very serious was liable to come of the understandin', not for some time, anyhow, for with your salary and well, sort of unsettled prospects, I gave you credit for not figgerin' on pickin' a wife right away. . . . Haven't got much laid by to support a wife on, have you, Al?" Albert's expression had changed during the latter portion of the speech.
I've spoke to may be through us speakin' different languages, an' not comin' to a understandin'. I've tried it loud an' I've tried it low an' encouragen', but some ways we never seemed to get on. An' er Mis' Dimar wouldn't take no exceptions at me a-drop-pin' in, I feel as ef I should be sorter uplifted if she'd only allow it once a week or even fewer."
Then she said somethin' to one o' the guardeens who spoke a little Portuguese, Father understandin' it a little too, and he told Father she said these was the drops of her blood he had saved, an' he must keep it to remember her. Jest like drops of blood, he said the rubies was, strung along on a gold chain.
"THEY'll be very pleased, though she 'as 'ad no proper understandin' for twenty years." "They" came before twilight a black-bearded man in moleskins, and a little palsied old woman, who chirruped like a wren. "I'm his son," said the man to Sophie, among the lavender bushes. "We 'ad a difference twenty year back, and didn't speak since.
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