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"You goin' to let me have some cake and 'serves in the china closet, me and Susy?" Mrs. Parlin smiled such a smile! It was a great deal sadder than tears, though Prudy did not know that she only knew that it meant "yes." "O, then I'm coming right down, 'cause I like cake and 'serves. I won't go up to heaven till bime-by!" Then she walked along the beam, and turned about to come down the ladders.
Well, Waitstill read his letters as well as she could through her blindin' tears; letters at first full of love the very passion of love and tenderness for his sweetheart, and deathless patriotism and love for his country. But bime-by the letters changed a little in their tones they wuzn't so full of love for his country.
I sithed, but almost onbeknown to myself looked at the Cross, and hoped that that divine light would go ahead through the wilderness of world warfare makin' a safe path, so Peace could git down from her high monument bime-by and walk round some through the world without gittin' her head blowed off.
I ask' all over the neighbourhood, an' not a woman but looked on me for a cradle snatcher thought I wanted to abduct her child away from her. Bime-by I even told one woman what I wanted it for. "'My! she says, 'if she ain't got one, she's got one less mouth to feed. Tell her to thank her stars. "After that I used to look into Mis' Loneway's frequent.
But all in vain, and Madam Conway heard the discomfited outsider say, "They told me Theodoshy's grandmarm was here, but I guess she's in the street. I'll come agin bime-by," and Mrs. Douglas, senior, walked disconsolately down the stairs, while Madam Conway thought it doubtful whether she gained access to the room that day, come as often as she might.
He might's well do the 'Harbor, 'cause that's only one place an' he can't blunder much seems if. You take the streets, same's he said; and I if you'll put a needle an' thread through me, bime-by, after he's found, I'll go find him an' call it square. I'll begin to the lowest down end the city hospitals they is an' I'll interview 'em, one by one, clean up to the Bronx.
A horse drawing a wagon at a jog trot came down the road, and they accosted the occupant of the seat. "How many miles to Mill Stream by the way of Dark Stream?" he said, repeating their question. "Well, I reckon it's fifteen or sixteen. Water enough? Oh, yes, mebbe, except p'raps in spots. Goin' round to Benton, you say? Sho! Don't esactly envy yer the jaunt. Guess there'll be more rain bime-by.
I theenk we all go into the bay this morning, and I fall down twice when I run to see how little Señorita Inez she feeling. Ay yi!" "Why did you not go to the country?" "And who take care the house? The car come back bime-by for the other servants, but I no go. Si, I can go in the train then perhaps. But no in automobilia. Is devil, no less."
Hop Sing held one hand in the smoke, raised the other aloft and made a blood-curdling oath of some sort which, by the expression of his face, probably consigned the owner forever more to the nethermost depths 'of Tophet. "Why, where is Ali Sing?" asked Jo the next morning, when she found the tall slave still in the kitchen. "He got heap sick cousin. He go way. I stay. He come back bime-by."
"Will you give us a thousand dollars to set you down in San Francisco?" Charlie rose. "I go back. I tell um China boy what you say 'bout liver pill. Bime-by I come back." "That means he'll take our offer back to his friends," said Wilbur, in a low voice. "You best hurry chop-chop," he called after Charlie; "we go home pretty soon!"
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