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"No, by !" cried the committee-man harshly, bringing his dirty fist down on the other's knee. "Did you ever hear of Frank Pixley weakenin'? Did you ever see the man that said Frank Pixley wasn't game?" He rose to his feet, a ragged and sinister silhouette against the sputtering electric light at the alley mouth.
Mebbe he'll be meetin' his Mäaker face to face, before the year's oot; yo' canno' tell. He's weakenin' fasst. An' he's ben a hard mon to his awn flesh and blood. There'll be a reckonin'! An' the Lord's sent him this yan chance o' repentance. I'll not stan' i' the Lord's way whativer. Coom along, Missie!"
Besides, his wife's with him, not sheddin' a tear, or nothin', an' she's helpin' him live till you come. They think a almighty heap of each other, an' she's got a will like hisn. If he weakened, she'd just put her immortal soul into hisn an' make him live. Though he ain't weakenin' none, you can stack on that. I'll stack on it. I'll lay you three to one, in ounces, he's alive when you get there.
"Beasley's strong around Pine, an' old Al's weakenin'. Beasley will git the property, girl or no girl," said John. "Things don't always turn out as they look. But no matter about that. The girl deal is what riled me.... She's to arrive at Magdalena on the sixteenth, an' take stage for Snowdrop.... Now what to do? If she travels on that stage I'll be on it, you bet.
It's weakenin'. That's why city folks ain't so hearty they get right into them big, long tubs they have built in their houses up-stairs! I seen one oncet in at Doc Hess's in Lancaster. I says to him when I seen it, 'You wouldn't get me into THAT it's too much like a coffin! I says.
"I presume she's the worst outlaw on the ranch," he replied quietly, though his blue eyes shone dangerously. "She must be," he went on, as Jake made no answer, "or you wouldn't give her to me, and point out that she's been saddled before." "Kind o' weakenin'?" Jake asked with a sneer. "No. I was just thinking of my saddle. It will be no use on her; she'd burst the girths."
"I should say he was a fool, grannie, not only for losin' of his money and his labor, but for weakenin' of his scaffoldin', summat like the old throne-maker i' that chapter, I should say." "What's the object of a scaffold, Mr. Jarvis?" "To get at something else by means of, say build a house."
"It seems pretty cool to march into somebody else's house and make free with his furniture. I hope to goodness our friends from the sea do turn up, or we'll look pretty foolish. Loudon will have a score against me he won't forget." "Ye're no' weakenin'?" asked Dougal fiercely. "Not a bit. Only hopin' somebody hasn't made a mighty big mistake." "Ye needn't be feared for that.
" And old Hambly kow-towing like a Puss-in-Boots till I could have wrung his neck for him and you weakenin' and playin' gentility as you picked it up, like another cat after a mouse and myself the only one left to show 'em plain that we weren't to be put upon yes, and after you'd hoped, up to the very door, that whatever happened, I'd take a proper stand!"
"I never noticed that in her mistress, to do her justice." 'Bias halted. "Look here. . . . You're sure you ain't weakenin'?" "Sure." "Because, as I told 'ee last night and I'll say it again, here, at the last moment she's yours, and welcome, if so be " " 'If so be as I didn' speak my true mind last night, when I said the same to you is that what you mean?
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