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"Well, I do, for my girl Nancy Ray used to live there, and she's told me sights. She says they've got a big looking-glass that cost three hundred dollars." "So I've heard, and I s'pose there'll be great doin's this afternoon. The coffin, they say, came from Worcester, and cost fifty dollars." "Now, that's what I call wicked.
"I ain't got any patience with folks that's always talkin' about their neighbor's doin's. There! now you go out and stand alongside the cook stove till that wet place dries. Don't you move till 'TIS dry, neither." So to the kitchen went Kyan, to stand, a sort of living clotheshorse, beside the hot range. But during the drying process he rubbed his forehead many times.
Some kind o' doin's was goin' on, fer the house was blazin' with light, an' music was playin'. "'What's on? says Price to the feller that let us in. "'Sir and Lady somebody 's dinin' here to-night, sir, says the man. "'Damn! says Price, 'I fergot all about the cussed thing. Have Mr.
Deacon Tolman run in an' told what kind of doin's there was goin' to be to-morrow. He was full of it, an' he blurted it all out to once." "About Senator Gilman coming?" "Yes." "And their trimming up the hall for him to speak in, and his writing on it was his boyhood's home and he shouldn't die happy unless he'd come back and seen it once more?" "Yes. That's about it."
Even light hearted Monty slunk back, "shaking in his shoes," while Leslie dropped his eyes and lost all his bravado. "Hark to me, Squad! Every mortal son an' gal of ye! I'm riled I'm mad. Here am I left in charge, so to speak, of your doin's, and of the work on the ranch, anyways. Your smart-aleck work has turned everything topsy-turvy.
"Well, you needn't tell, smarty," said Tuck, with a squeal and a kick. "I'd heard o' kisses, o' course," Tedda went on, "but they hadn't come my way specially. I don't mind tellin' I was that took aback at that man's doin's he might ha' lit fire-crackers on my saddle.
Should the fraud be detected before the completion of the bargain, as in our case, he laughs with the rest, and says, probably, he `warn't so 'cute as usual." "Och, the scoundrels!" cried Larry; "an' is there no law for sich doin's?" "None; at least in most diggings men are left to sharpen their own wits by experience. Sometimes, however, the biter is pretty well bitten.
I'll have towers, and bay-windows, and piazzers, with checkered work all 'round 'em, and a preservatory, and all kinds of new fangled doin's. May Jane and Ann 'Liza want that Queen Anny style, but I tell 'em no such squatty things for me.
Carlyle thought was as good as the language of the devil. "And here, now, how about this dog-luncheon?" he continued, glancing at a New York newspaper clutched accusingly in his hand. "It was give, I see, by one of your Newport cronies. Now, that's healthy doin's fur a two-fisted Christian, ain't it? I want to know.
As we know, he was a good deal of a coward at heart, and the sight of the shotgun in Snap's hands made him quake. "Don't shoot me!" he whined. "Please don't shoot me!" And he held up his hands in token of submission. "So you are the pesky rascal the lads was a-tellin' me about," said Aaron Masterson, sternly. "Nice doin's, I must say!"
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