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Cup of tea in bed, of a morning?" "Yaas." "Dinner at two?" "We call it luncheon." "Are you a ventriloquist?" "No." "Then it is only your lips call it luncheon. Your poor stomach, could it speak, would call it dinner. Afternoon tea?" "Yaas." "At seven-thirty another dinner. Tea after that. Your afflicted stomach gets no rest. You eat pastry?" "I confess it." "And sugar in a dozen forms?"
"Miss Mayo she say, 'Yaas," he briefly reported. Under the force of the nervous reaction he experienced, Laurie actually caught the man's arm. "She's there?" he jerked out. "You're sure of it?" "Yaas, sah." Henry spoke soothingly. By this time he had made a diagnosis of the caller's condition which agreed with that of the night-watchman Laurie had just interviewed.
The young man burst out laughing, instead of reprimanding Tobias, who maintained his sulky impassiveness of face. "Why, zor, I be gardener now, too: yaäs I be, to save the wages. And he's gone clean mazed about that garden yaäs, I think.
"Why, yaas," said the man, "if you mean Junius Keswick." "Certainly he did," said Mrs Storekeeper. "He rode through here yesterday, and he stopped at the store to see if we had any of that Lynchburg tobacco he used to smoke when he lived here. He's gone on to his aunt's." "Where is that?" asked Croft. "It's about two miles out on the Westerville road," said the little man.
I seen you as I was a-comin' back from the racket school. My eye, wasn't you tidy and screwed though! You don't ought to be trusted with 'orses, you don't." "I wasn't screwed, Billy," said I, "and I wasn't driving." "No, that you wasn't driving. But I knows the bloke as was." "Do you know Mr Whipcord?" "Yaas, I knows the animal," he replied, with a grin.
"Nein," replied the woman, in a mixture of German and English, "it don't come any more in dot place; it be in a shtore now; it be good girl." "What, all day?" "Yaas, by six o'clock, and abends so spate. Not much it get, but my man can't earn nothing any more." And the woman, as she looked at him, wiped her eyes with the corner of her apron. "But, on Sunday?" Father Damon asked, still further.
The former paused, forgetting the cold in his amazement. "What's wrong? Somebody sick?" "I don't know what's the matter. This man just says 'nix, that's all." The fellow, evidently a watchman, nodded his head, and growled, "Yaas! Ay got no room." "But you don't understand," said Emerson. "We're wet. We broke through the ice. Never mind the room, we'll get along somehow."
The lawyer jogged homeward in the company of the jury foreman. He eulogized the young man for his good work in the prosecution, and, when the other returned the compliment by speaking warmly of the jury's prompt and speedy deliverance of the verdict, the fereman replied: "Yaas, the vagabond ought to be locked up.
He stared, but did not offer to move. "Did you hear me?" I asked, astonished. "Yaas, suh, I done hear yoh, suh." I looked him over in amazement, then walked past him towards the door. "Is you gwine look foh Mars' Lupus?" he asked, barring my way with one wrinkled, blue-black hand on the brass door-knob. "Kaze ef you is, you don't had better, suh." I could only stare.
It was a sight to see the little grimy face glow as he expatiated on the grateful theme. "I suppose he didn't did he say anything about me?" I asked, hesitatingly. "Yaas," said Billy. He do talk beautiful, he does."
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