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She was very angry when her mother or Emily showed any wavering in this all-important matter. "Well, what did you have to SEE her for, Mama?" Ella would irritably demand, when her autocratic "Who'd you see to-day? What'd you do?" had drawn from her mother the name of some caller. "Why, dearie, I happened to be right there. I was just crossing the porch when they drove up!" Mrs.
'Brother Pitts, says he, 'who wept? The deacon see 't he'd got to put some kind of a face on 't, an' he looked up an' spoke out, as bold as brass. 'I conclude, says he, 'I conclude 't was the judges!" Even Miss Ware smiled a little, and adjusted her gold beads. The others laughed out rich and free. "Well, what'd that have to do with Isabel?" asked Mrs. Ellison, who never forgot the main issue.
At length: "We put a member out of the church last Wednesday," said he, steadily. Deforrest Young turned completely around and stared at his brother-in-law. "Put a member out of the church!" he repeated, thunder-struck. "Why church a member?... That is out of the ordinary, I should say. What'd he do?" "It wasn't a man, 'twas a woman." "Well, for God's sake!"
Clammer was carried off the field into the dressing room and a physician was summoned out of the audience. "Cap., what'd it do to him?" asked Delaney. "Aw, spoiled his pretty mug, that's all," replied Healy, scornfully. "Mebee he'll listen to me now." Delaney's change was characteristic of the man. "Well, if it didn't kill him I'm blamed glad he got it.... Cap, we can trim 'em yet.
I got it all fixed right, and then I bought your little upstate shop lock, stock and barrel and gave you this for it. A fair exchange is no robbery. Though it would be nice to have it all in the family, eh?" Ross was silent for a few turbulent moments, revolving this far from pleasing information. "What'd I do it for?" continued the unasked benefactor. "What do you think I did it for?
"Why," said Si, "I supposed that they was too tired to do anything but lay down and go to sleep. What'd they do?" "Better ask what they didn't do," replied the Orderly. "They done everything that a passel o' impish school boys could think of, and what they couldn't think of them smart Alecks down in the company put 'em up to. I'm going to put some o' them smarties through a course o' sprouts.
His further impression of Bessy Bell, then, was that she had just fallen in with this older crowd, and sophisticated though she was, had not yet been corrupted. The divination of this heightened his interest. "Well, Daren, you old prune, what'd you think of the toddle?" asked Helen, as she took a cigarette offered by Swann and tipped it between her red lips. "Is that what you danced?"
Old Gall he walked slowly over t' Curley, with a walk that made me think o' nothin' else on earth but a painter, an' when he got t' Will he paused, with everybody holdin' their breath t' see what'd happen, an' then it did happen! "Th' old man reached out an' took that brand-new Stetson off Will Curley's head, an' shook it an' knocked it on all sides, an' put it on his own head an' walked away.
What'd you find, Daly?" he added, as the agent joined them, mechanically wiping his brow. Moisture there was none. It evaporated fast as the pores exuded. "They know well enough, damn them!" said the new official. "But they think I can be stood off. I'll nail 'em yet to-morrow," he added. "But could you send a scout at once to the Tonto basin?" and Daly turned eagerly to the post commander.
I had the luck to get a cross-grained, cranky one, as you know. Poor Seth!" She drew a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped her eyes. "But you got to admit, Sadie, that even he was white enough to up and die before I got too old for other gentlemen to take notice of me." "What'd you want 'em to take notice of you for?" asks Mrs. Nitschkan abstractedly, her mind on her flies.
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