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I was mighty shook up, you bet! and to make the hull thing perfectly ridic'lous, when I got back to the road, after all I'd got through, darn my skin, ef thar warn't that pesky lot o' drunken men staggerin' along, jinglin' the scads they had won, and enjoyin' themselves, and nobody a-followin' 'em! I jined 'em jest for kempany's sake, till we got back to town, but nothin' happened."
Children like that feels like young wolves an' food's flesh an' blood to 'em," said Mrs. Sowerby. Then she smiled Dickon's own curving smile. "Eh! but they're enjoyin' theirselves for sure," she said. She was quite right, the comfortable wonderful mother creature and she had never been more so than when she said their "play actin'" would be their joy.
"Why, you see," said Jed, "Phin Babbitt and the rest sendin' you over here to find a crank was their little joke. They're enjoyin' it now. The one thing needed to make 'em happy for life is to see you come out of here empty-handed and so b'ilin' mad that you froth over.
He was still seated at the card table, laying out a game of solitaire, when the swinging doors of the saloon opened quietly. The first inkling Hardy had of a stranger's presence, however, was the soft drawl of a familiar voice: "Good mohnin', Mistah Hahdy! Enjoyin' a little game o' cahds?" Hardy's body remained stiff and rigid for a breathless moment, frozen with surprise.
'Ope you've been enjoyin' of yourselves as I 'ave, subjec' to restrictions. A bob don't go fur in liquor now-a-days. You might ha' made it two." "One seems to have been quite enough for you," said Patsy, with a light of battle in eyes no longer dreamy. "I don't deny as I 'ad a bob myself to spend," said the ruffian. "'Ere, you, Georgie! You wake up, you lazy young devil!
Baines," Sarah said, making an effort at coldness and dignity. "Bet you hain't enjoyin' yourself enough to warrant your doin' a favor for an old feller like me, eh?... This evenin', for instance?" "I I'm going away this evening." "Um!... Goin' away, eh? Alone? Or along with somebody?" "That's my own affair." "To be sure.... To be sure, but the train don't leave till nine, does it?
Yes, that's what they're going to do. Let them alone. They're having a good time." "And so am I. Certainly am enjoyin' of myself hearin' all about you. I tell you the mother of nine don't often have time to set down and rock in daylight, and at night I'm so tired that if 'twasn't for the basin of cold water I keep on the back porch to put my face in I'd go to sleep before I'd read a page."
"Of course I have faith in him," she declared, with a slight, biting emphasis. "I believe in him absolutely." She saw his lips twitch. "Sure," he sneered, "you was just beginnin' to believe in him that day when you was holdin' hands with him just about here. I reckon he was enjoyin' himself." She started, but smiled immediately.
He goes up with the friends to look at the deceased, smilin' a peaceful sort o' heavinly smile, and everybody sayin' he's gone to meet his reward, and this yer friend turns round, short and sudden on the widder settin' in her pew, and kinder enjoyin, as wimen will, all the compliments paid the corpse, and he says, says he: "'What did you say your husband died of, marm?
Sez I, "You hain't enjoyin' sech poor health as you did sometimes in Jonesville, be you?" Sez she, "I never wuz so well before in my life!" Sez I, "You've somehow got a different look onto you, Arvilly." Sez I, "Somehow, you look more meller and happy." "I be happy!" sez she. Sez I, "I spoze you are still a-sellin' the same old book, the 'Wild, Wicked, and Warlike Deeds of Man'?"
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