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"'Well, s'I, 'I don't see what that's wise I can do besides. "He mulled that rill thorough, seein' to the back o' one hand with the other. "'Would you take her to board an' me pay for her board? s'e, like he'd sneezed the i-dea an' couldn't help it comin'. "'Goodness! s'I, neutral.
"Good i-dea," he said; and that was a long speech for Unc Nunkie because it was two words. "So I cut up the quilt," continued Margolotte, "and made from it a very well-shaped girl, which I stuffed with cotton-wadding. I will show you what a good job I did," and she went to a tall cupboard and threw open the doors.
"I'm sure," she said humbly, "it's a nice i-dea. But I declare, I'm put to it to suggest. We ain't got nobody sick nor nobody poor in Friendship, you know." "Don't you know of anybody kind o' hard up? Or somebody that, if they ain't down sick, feels sort o' spindlin'?" Calliope asked anxiously. Mis' Uppers thought, rocking a little and running a pin in and out of a fold of her skirt.
I had learned that he was loath to oppose a suggestion and that he always preferred to agree, but I had not hoped for enthusiasm. "That's the i-dea," said Timothy, heartily. "I do admire a surprise. But what I think is this," he added, "when'll we hev it?" "To-night," I proposed boldly. "Whew!" Timothy whistled. "Sudden for General eh? Suits me suits me.
An' then when we come back past where the funeral was, an' I see them flowers seemed like I hed to see how 'twould be to put 'em on my grave, that I'd took over. So I come early an' done it. But I was goin' to lay 'em right back where they belong I truly was. "I guess none of us hed the least i-dea what to say. We just stood there plain tuckered in the part of us that senses things.
Well, now, you've been ask' to join the Sodality. An' if you was to announce an Evening Benefit for it, here in your home, the whole town'd come out to it hot-foot. We're owin' Zittelhof on Eph Cadoza's coffin yet, an' I shouldn't wonder an' that one evening would pay him all off and, same time, get you rill well acquainted. Don't you think it's a nice i-dea?"
An' I see he happened to be there because the Through was about due, that's the one that don't stop here, an' you can always get a good view of it from this slope. You know Abel never misses watchin' a fast train go 'long, if he can help himself. "'What's the i-dea? Abel says. 'How can you pray at all in closets an' places that ain't been dedicated? I shouldn't think they'd be holy enough, 's'e.
"But he IS hurt!" "Well I don't suppose I ought to have gone off half-cocked, and not jollied him along. I'll give him a cigar. He'll " Juanita had been licking her lips and staring at Carol. She interrupted her husband, "Yes, I do think Harry ought to fix it up with him. You LIKE him, DON'T you, Carol??" Over and through Carol ran a frightened cautiousness. "Like him? I haven't an í-dea.
She simply hasn't got an í-dea how hard it is for a full-blooded man to go on pretending to be satisfied with just being endured. It gets awful tiresome, having to feel like a criminal just because I'm normal. She's getting so she doesn't even care for my kissing her. Well "I guess I can weather it, same as I did earning my way through school and getting started in practise.
Her quickness in noting external differences had already taught her to modulate and lower her voice, and to replace "The I-dea!" and "I wouldn't wonder" by more polished locutions; and she had not been ten minutes at table before she found that to seem very much in love, and a little confused and subdued by the newness and intensity of the sentiment, was, to the Dagonet mind, the becoming attitude for a young lady in her situation.
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