I’ll bet if he’d had his way them last ten days here, he would have let her sloshed right through the mud, and not offered to throw his cloak down for her.
Poor, capricious, jealous creeter, Lib wuz; but I believe that big collar she always wore choked her and kinder rasped her neck, and made her ugly. It would make me cross as a bear, it seems to me.
But I d’no what his feelin’s wuz, nor what hern wuz, when she knew the man who wuz once her lover, and beloved by her, wuz spendin’ the long days alone with despair and death.
CHAPTER XXVI.
PARIS AND ITS BEAUTIES.
Wall, Martin felt and sed that France must be took in by him. He sed that a full knowledge of the French character, the country and the customs and habits of the people, wuz positively imperative to any one who laid any claims to fashion, and so he laid out to go to France and give it a exhaustive study. He laid out, he sed, to stay in the country not less than three days, and he might possibly stay four.
Thinkses I, with a deep inward sithe, I guess it will be a exhaustive study; it exhausted me even to think of bein’ raced so through a country, whirled on by the influence of Fashion and Martin.
But he wuz the conductor of the enterprise, so to speak, and we had to foller his rules blindly, as it wuz.
Wall, travellin’ at the rate of speed we did, my memories are apt to run together, some like the colors of a calico dress after it is washed—the blacks and reds are apt to mingle, dark eppisodes and lighter complected ones—but some memories stand out vividly, too deeply printed to fade out.
One is my Josiah’s feelin’s at not havin’ his breakfast till ’leven o’clock.