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"'Yes, said she; 'that little brown man who came out here and looked at me as if he were determined to know me the next time he saw me. "'Oh, him! said Sam. 'That's a friend of mine, Cap'n Abner Budlong. He's no detective, nor nothin' like one. He jes came out to see who was passin' while I was findin' out about the toll. He's always fond of seein' people.
"Can't, I'm afraid. I'm engaged to take up old Missus Oke an' her niece at Tippet's corner; an' the niece's box. The gal's goin' in to St. Austell, into service. So there's no room. But if there's any little message I can take " "When'll you be back?" "Somewhere's about five I'll be passin'." "Would 'ee mind waitin' a moment?
Winding walks in which the great Conqueror might have walked with his brain teemin' with ambitious plans. I didn't want to leave the garden it was so beautiful, but time wuz passin' and we went inside and went through room after room, each one seemin'ly more beautiful than the one we had seen last. The picture-room wuz specially beautiful filled as it is with treasures of French art.
"Do expresses often pass your cottage in that way?" asked Netta, with a touch of pity. "Bless you, yes, Miss; they're always passin' day and night continooly; but we don't think nothink of it. We've got used to it now." "Does it not disturb you at night?" asked Emma Lee in some surprise. "No, Miss, it don't not in the least. No doubt it sometimes do influence our dreams, if I may say so.
"Oh, look thar!" whispered his companion excitedly. "The other town feller has asked for a knock-down to Johnnie, too. Look at him passin' his bows with her just like she was one of the swells!" Stoddard looked. Charlie Conroy was relieving Baker of his partner.
A horseman looked over the heads of the crowd to the four troopers. "Passin' through, suh. Leastwise we was, until greeted " Kirby answered courteously. Drew assessed the questioner's well-cut riding clothes, his good linen, and fine gloves. The rider was middle-aged, his authority more evident because of that fact.
It was as if he were sure of the rightness of his purpose, but needed encouragement in its execution. For the moment the poker game was stopped, a fact which was wholly due to the interest of the steely eyes of Wild Bill. "Layin' off?" inquired the gambler, without a moment's softening. "Guess you're passin' on that mud lay-out of yours," suggested Sandy, with a laugh.
Just as you can see through the blue haze that lays before our forest in Injun summer. Come nigh up to it and you can see the silvery trunks of the maples and the red sumac leaves, and the bright evergreens, and the forms of the happy hunters a passin' along under the glint of the sunbeams and the soft shadows. They died in Injun summer.
But a fire naturally suggested food, and Judy said ruefully, after feeling in her empty pocket: "It's starved wid the hunger you'll be, Thady, and the sorra a taste of anythin' have I in the world. 'Deed now, if I'd on'y known the way it 'ud be, and I passin' thim houses below in the boreen a while ago!
"Like enough; but even if folks has ben through seas o' trouble, they needn't be everlastin'ly spittin' up salt brine. 'Passin' through the valley of sorrow they make it full o' fountings; that's what the Psalms says 'bout bearin' trouble." "Lyddy warn't much on fountings," said Aunt Hitty contemplatively; "but, there, we hadn't ought to speak nothin' but good o' the dead. Land sakes!
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