"Indeed!" She looks me square in the face.
"Don't tell me a word, sis," says I. "I'm not so hard as you think."
"He's coming over tonight," says Bonnie Bell to me after a time.
"That's to get his answer?" asts I; and she nodded then.
"Well, Colonel," says I to the old man that evening when he come in and we was having a nip before dinner, "I reckon I got this thing all fixed up at last. It's been a hard pull for me, being half a pa to a girl like ours; but I done it."
"Is that so, Curly?" says he. "Well, it's been some chore, ain't it, for both of us? Well, how!"
When Old Man Wright taken a drink he never did say "Here's how!" He just said "How!" which is Western. When a man says "Here's how!" he comes from the East and is trying his best to hide it.
"How!" says I. "And a good health to the young and happy couple."
"What's that?" says he, sudden. "Has anything happened? She hasn't said anything to me. Why is she so tight-mouthed with me, Curly, and so free with you?"
"Oh, it's a way I have with women," says I.