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But right here the torections erbout what I'm bounden to do sort o' peter out. I got as many cheeks to turn as any of 'em, but that ain't sayin' that the stock's immortil' With that he ups and allows a heap mo' things about my morils; and me havin' turned both cheeks till my neck ached, and not havin' any mo' toe turn, what-all could I do what-all would you 'a' done, Tom-Jeff?" "Don't ask me.
"I'm gettin' right old and no-account, son; there's no denyin' that. And you can't make out to shoulder it all, stout as you are. But what-all can we do different?" "I know what I'm going to do. I had a 'phone wire from Bradley, the sheriff, last night after you went home. He funked like a boy; said he couldn't raise a posse in South Tredegar that would serve against striking workmen.
I would ask, slipping from the saddle at his word. "Why, the hoss-captain's varmints, to be sure; or what-all the abomination o' desolation has left of 'em. We ain't more than a cat's jump from the edge o' the big rock where we first sot eyes on 'em this morning." I saw not what was to be gained by any such long-range espial in the darkness.
"Don't keep saying it." She stamped her little foot. "Papa has lots of money in English and Chinese securities and I don't know what-all. Why, that factory of his was the least of his fortune." "That is why your father deliberately lifted three fourths of his money from the business just before he was taken ill. He was not going to risk cutthroats getting together.
"And rabbits and birds and goodness knows what-all in the woods. Why, it is a perfectly wonderful adventure! Suppose we are alone on this island? I'll wager you no American girls ever had an experience like this before." It was a weary trip back to the houseboat, but there were so many plans to be made for this pioneer existence.
As he sat down opposite to me at a table, with his back to the door by which we had entered, he put out his rough hand again, and grasped mine warmly. 'I'll tell you, Mas'r Davy, he said, 'wheer all I've been, and what-all we've heerd. I've been fur, and we've heerd little; but I'll tell you! I rang the bell for something hot to drink.
She was taller than Lydia, and appeared to be looking over her head with an intent stare at the freshly papered wall beyond. "For pity sake!" exclaimed her mother sharply. "Why, Fanny, you could buy a brand new set, an' goodness knows what-all with the money. What's the matter with you?"
Thar's a big room whar you dance if you can and whar they give little suppers for us with not much to eat; and thar's a place where they sorter preach to ye lecture she calls it. I don't know what-all Miss Lyddy hain't got for her club.
"Yes; I'm so big it makes me right tired," he said gravely, and his voice cracked provokingly in the middle of it. Then he asked about his mother. "She's tolerable only tolerable, Buddy. She allows she don't have enough to keep her doin' in the new " Caleb pulled himself up abruptly and changed the subject with a ponderous attempt at levity. "What-all have you done with your trunk check, son?
By this time Helgerson had come up with the furnace men, a motley crew in all stages of Sunday-morning dishevelment, and armed only as a mob may arm itself at a moment's notice. Caleb, the veteran, looked the squad over with a slow smile gathering the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. "You boys'll have to make up in f'erceness what-all you're lacking in soldier-looks," he observed mildly.
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