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"Do you know anything of all this?" she asked. "Yes'm," said Ben, his head dropping lower yet, while Joel and David howled on, and Phronsie screamed to be taken up in her mother's lap, and that she wanted a monkey too. Polly sat as if paralyzed. "What is it?" asked Mrs. Pepper. "The circus," said Ben, slowly, "coming over to Hillsbury."
Hepsey's remarks were short and jerky, as a rule, and had a certain explosive force. "Hasn't the lamp been lighted since she went away?" "Yes'm. I was to do it till you come, and after you got here I was to ask you every night if you'd forgot it." Ruth smiled because Aunt Jane's old-fashioned exactness lingered in her wake.
Then with the old cattleman's shrewd, hard eyes upon her she turned from a clip full of papers she had been looking through and spoke to him quietly: "You used to work for the Granite Canyon crowd, didn't you, Carson?" "Yes'm," he answered. "Cattle foreman there for several years?" "Yes'm." "Helped clean out the Roaring Creek gang didn't you, Carson?"
Of course it costs more to print a large one than a small one." "That needn't make no difference," said Aunt Jane, after long deliberation. "James has two hundred dollars sewed up on the inside of the belt he insists on wearin', instead of Christian suspenders, ain't you, James?" "Yes'm, two hundred and four dollars in my belt and seventy-six cents in my pocket." "It's from his store," Mrs.
I've rung a dozen times. The whole place is crazy about that old ball to-night, and no one can get decent attention." "Can't I do what you want, ma'am?" I just yearned to get inside that door. "No," she snapped. "I don't want a boy to fasten my dress in the back " "We often do, ma'am," I said softly. "You do? Well " "Yes'm." I breathed again. "Well it's indecent. Go down and send me a maid."
"Yes'm here I am and I am here to convince you that I am no house-burglar nor highway robber I am here with a valuable article which you can not afford to be without nor can any other housekeeper and were I to leave without showing it you would always pride yourself on getting rid of one impostor I must insist on showing you the value of my preparation which I can do on the hat-tree here in the hall."
"Yes'm, he did, and I went out and brought Bud and 'Lias and Henny in and he talked to 'em serious until 'Lias cried and Bud got choked trying not to. Then he give them all a bottle of soda pop and they ain't never anybody a-going to tell anybody else about it. He made them boys cross they hearts and bodies not to. I didn't cross mine 'cause I knew I had to tell you, but I do it now."
One is, that woollen pieces may have crept in by mistake. As we profess to sell cotton rags, it would be dishonest to mix them with woollen." "Yes'm, I understand," said Jennie, who often spoke when it was quite as well to keep silent; "it's always best to be honest isn't it, Mrs. Parlin?" The rags were spread out upon the table, giving Flyaway a fine opportunity to scatter them right and left.
"Let me see. Your eldest daughter has two little boys, hasn't she?" "Yes'm," said Thomas "twins." "I thought so. Her husband is my cook's cousin. Well, here's two threepenny bits one for each of them." With some trouble she extracted the coins from a rather shabby leather purse evidently her household purse. She bestowed them upon the honest conductor with another grateful and condescending smile.
A gorgeous flunkey threw open the door with a virtuously severe expression on his breakfast-flushed countenance, an expression which relaxed into a smile of condescension on seeing who the visitor was. "I suppose Lady Winsleigh is at home, Briggs?" inquired Mrs. Marvelle, with the air of one familiar with the ways of the household. "Yes'm," replied Briggs slowly, taking in the "style" of Mrs.
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