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"You might have known that I should be more pleased than angry, I should think," said Matilda. "More pleased than I might have known!" exclaimed the bewildered man. "Oh, you can't reely be taking it as cool as this! Will you kindly inform me what it is you're alludin' to in this way?" "What is the use of pretending? You know I know. And it is colder, much colder, this morning.
"What a stolid face she has!" she remarked presently by way of breaking an awkward pause. Beth wondered what "stolid" meant, and who "she" was. "She doesn't look well," papa observed. "She's jest had the life shook out of her, sir," Kitty put in. "Kitty, how dare you?" Mrs. Caldwell began. "It's to the journey I'm alludin' now, m'em," Kitty explained with dignity.
"You'll excoose my sayin' it, Farmer," spoke up Old Zeb out of the awed silence that followed, "for doubtless I may be thick o' hearin', but did I, or did I not, catch 'ee alludin' to a windfall o' wealth?" "You did."
"Your young guv'nor's the right sort, Pottinger," he remarked as Stafford at last reluctantly tore himself away from the stables. "Give me a master as understands a horse and I don't mind working for him." Pottinger nodded and turned the straw in his mouth. "If you're alludin' to Mr. Stafford, then you'll enjoy your work, Mr. Davis; for you've got what you want.
"Tregaskis was alludin' to er this here; which" he concluded, "nobody could have been more taken aback than I was this mornin' . . . when it happened." "You don't say that's the musical box!" cried Mrs Tregaskis. "I told you," put in her spouse, "as the salesman had shown us how to work it, an' it played the most life-like tunes, 'Home Sweet Home' inclooded."
He looked this evenin' like he'd put his finger in his mouth in one more minute, plumb 'shamed ter his boot-sole o' the things Markham hed said. An' Markham he kem up ter me before a crowd o' fellers, an' says, says he: 'Mr. Hoxon, I meant no reflections on yer fambly in alludin' ter its poverty, an' I honor ye fur yer lifelong exertions in its behalf.
And I sez, "Mebby so, for hull rows of carved marble elephants stand along them broad roads; I guess they worshipped 'em." And he sez, "I wuz alludin' to size." Robert Strong looked ruther sad as we looked on them ruins buried so deep by the shovel of time.
"I suppose y'are alludin' to the F.R.H.'s, Passon," he said; "They all loves Latin, as cats loves milk; howsomever, they never knows 'ow to pronounce it. Likewhich myself not bein' a F.R.H. nor likely to be, I'm bound to confess I dabbles in it a bit, though there's a chap wot I gets cheap shrubs of, his Latin's worse nor mine, an' 'e's got all the three letters after 'is name. 'Ow did 'e get 'em?
"We wa'n't alludin' to no Husshons," retorted Timothy Grant. "We was dealin' with the misfortunes of Aaron Boynton, who never fit valoriously on the field o' battle, but perished out in Ohio of scarlit fever, if what they say in Enfield is true." "Tis an easy death," remarked Bill argumentatively. "Scarlit fever don't seem like nothin' to me!
We was gettin' rich so quick we felt almost scared. "There come nigh to bein' a little shootin' just before the horses was gettin' ready for the first race, which was for a mile and a half. We led old Pinto out, and some feller standin' by, he says, sarcastic like, 'What's that I see comin'; a snow-plough? Him alludin' to the single blinder on Pinto's nose.
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