He was having an extra bout of work finishing another of those dreadful books, and had been away practically continually the last few weeks, and was away when she left.
"'Bout time to go now," said Tony.
"I couldn't have—talked this way—to you, Billy, even if I'd heard people—lyin' 'bout you.
I'll stick to the widder till I rot, Tom; and if I git to be a reg'lar ripper of a robber, and everybody talking 'bout it, I reckon she'll be proud she snaked me in out of the wet.
Nobody told me it was you; but I just knowed it must 'a' ben you, soon as I heard 'bout that whiskey business; and I knowed you hadn't got the money becuz you'd 'a' got at me some way or other and told me even if you was mum to everybody else.
I couldn't sleep, and so I come along upstreet 'bout midnight, a-turning it all over, and when I got to that old shackly brick store by the Temperance Tavern, I backed up agin the wall to have another think.
I been thinking 'bout that.
Now you better think 'bout this awhile.
" "'Bout what?
I'd like to see her get around this with her rubbage 'bout superstition.
Don't you remember, Huck, 'bout me saying that?
That Injun devil wouldn 't make any more of drownding us than a couple of cats, if we was to squeak 'bout this and they didn't hang him.
" "A body can't be too partic'lar how they talk 'bout these-yer dead people, Tom.
" "You take and split the bean, and cut the wart so as to get some blood, and then you put the blood on one piece of the bean and take and dig a hole and bury it 'bout midnight at the crossroads in the dark of the moon, and then you burn up the rest of the bean.
It was a pillow fight rather than a dance, and when it was finished, the pillows insisted on one bout more, like partners who know that they may never meet again.
My then 2-year-old and I quickly made a warm, loving home out of our brand-new townhouse for two, and without skipping a beat—aside from a bout of flu that hit us both almost instantly—life went on.
Or the rarity of his wartime illnesses, limited to a mild bout of smallpox which killed his valet?
Lance Armstrong's bout with cancer meant he lost one testicle and had to go through chemotherapy which has a horrific effect on the body.
Lance Armstrong's bout with cancer meant he lost one testicle and had to go through chemotherapy which has a horrific effect on the body.
The weather is fine so a bout of fishing is in order, followed by lunch cooked on an open fire.