Then he asked three in succession.

Dorinda, who was quite as curious as he but would not have shown it for the world, stopped him at the beginning of the fourth.
"There! there!" she said, sharply, "this is supposed to be a meal, not a parrot shop, and we're humans, not a passel of birds on a telegraph wire all hollerin' at once.

Drink your tea and stop your cawin', Lute Rogers.
Ros'll tell us when he gets ready.

What DID Mr.Colton want of you, Roscoe ?" I told them as much of the interview at the Coltons' as I thought necessary they should know.

Lute kept remarkably quiet, for him, until I named the figure offered by the millionaire.