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It was easy to see he felt the force of this circumstance; and it is to be hoped that, as he was certainly a wiser, he also became a better man, on one of the most common of the weaknesses of human frailty. "Wa-a-l," he replied to my uncle's last remark, after fully a minute of silent reflection, "I don't know! It would seem so, I vow; and yet it hasn't been my wife's notion, nor is it Kitty's.
"Wa-a-l" no man but an American of New England descent, as was the case with Miller, can give this word its attic sound "Wa-a-l, it's hard to say. I hear a great deal about aristocrats, and I read a great deal about aristocrats, in this country, and I know that most folks look upon them as hateful, but I'm by no means sartain I know what an aristocrat is.
"Well," this word Ithuel invariably pronounced, "wa-a-l" "well, to my notion, the most profitable and the most agreeable battles are the shortest; and the pleasantest victories are them in which there's the most prize money, Howsever, as that brig is only an Austrian, I care little what you may detairmine to do with her; was she English, I'd head a boat myself, to go in and tow her out here, expressly to have the satisfaction of burning her.
Accordin' to some folks' notions, now-a-days, a man ought to enj'y only the property he heaps together himself." "If dis be so, your Herr Littlebage ist no arisdograt." "Wa-a-l, that isn't the idee, hereaway.
"Wa-a-l, Madam Littlepage," cried Miller, who used the familiarity of one born on the estate, "this is the queerest watch-pedlar I've met with, yet. He asks fifteen dollars for that pencil, and only four for this watch!" showing his own purchase as he concluded. My grandmother took the watch in her hand, and examined it attentively.
I bounced a little, as "one has one-half of a bed" would be nearer to the truth, though the other half might be in another room. "Oh! that's it, is't? Wa-a-l, every country has its ways, I s'pose. Jarmany is a desp'ate aristocratic land, I take it." "Ja; dere ist moch of de old feudal law, and feudal coostum still remaining in Charmany." "Landlords a plenty, I guess, if the truth was known.
"I don't see any hope o' sneakin' through the line," observed Kenton. "It's not goin' to be dark tonight." "Wa-a-l," Oncle Jazon drawled nonchalantly while he took in a quid of tobacco, "I've been into tighter squeezes 'an this, many a time, an' I got out, too." "Likely enough," said Kenton, still reflecting while his eyes roamed around the circle of savages.
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