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Louis when she went off to school her an' some friends of her pa's. Skinny, gangling sort of a young 'un she wuz, but let me tell you, as purty as a picter. I allus said she'd be the purtiest woman in all creation when she got her growth an' filled out, an', by hokey, I wuz right.
She darted forward, half opened a baize covered swing door and peeped through. "I just thought I heard them at it," she said. "Mrs. Geraghty and the two housemaids are rioting in the long gallery, dragging the furniture about and, generally speaking, playing old hokey. That gives us a certain amount of information, Cousin Frank."
So that it was not until evening was well advanced that Sunset learned that Ford was no longer a potential menace within its meager boundaries. Bill took a long breath, observed meaningly that "He'd better go whilst his credit's good, by hokey!" and for the first time that day sat down with his back toward an outer door.
"I am not seeking a quarrel, but I do want to see how the people feel about the payment of their rents." "Say mister, look down into that valley there," the stranger began. "See all them houses they're the little houses o' the poor. See how smooth the land is? Who built them houses? Who cleaned that land? Was it Mr. Livingston? By hokey nettie! I guess not.
"I've been forbidden to call him out of 192; he and my mother are both now fooling the Duchess; I am playing a double game with Clayton, and, by Hokey, old Wade's watchful men may drop on to me. I may lose the best job in New York if these people get all tangled up. What the devil is going on, anyway?"
As soon as he approached it the key leaped out of his hand, took its place in the key-hole, and began to turn swiftly round. When it stopped the silver had become gold. "Yaller again, by hokey," said Bob. And he took the gold key and went back, wondering what the key-hole would do now. But there was now no key-hole. It had disappeared entirely.
"By Hokey!" exclaimed the young musician, "I'll take Purdee's word ez soon ez yourn." The whiskey which Grinnell had drunk had rendered him more plastic still to jealousy. The day was not so long past when Purdee's oath would have been esteemed a poor dependence against the word of so zealous a brother as he a pillar in the church, a shining light of the congregation.
"You are thinking of purchasing yes, the cards say purchasing; or is it 'disposing " "Why, as I've got none to sell, it can't very well be disposing, Mother." "Yes, I'm right this Jack of Clubs settles the matter you are thinking of buying some land Ah! there's water running down-hill; and here I see a pond Why, you are thinking of buying a mill-seat." "By the Hokey!
Look at them knuckles! You couldn't thump a feather bed. Anyway, you got the guilty party when you done slapped Sam up to a peak and then knocked the peak off. Made him swaller his cud, too, by hokey! Say, Sam, my old dad used to feed a cow on bacon-rinds when she done lost her cud. You try it, Sam. Mebby it might help them ears!
"And you have come to inform us that we must give up Melindy?" "Yes, sir, that is the hull thing in a few words," cried Mr. Spriggins very much elated, "Isn't it a wonderful gift you fellars have of speakin' right to the pint. By hokey, I'd give a good deal if I was a lawyer an honest, fair-square one like yerself, sir." "Thank you Mr. Spriggins," said the young man trying hard to look serious.
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