"Been keeping it long ?" "Quite some consid'able time," said the Colonel.

"Long enough, land knows, and we'd a-been done with it by this time and married, if that Skinner hadn't come crowdin' in where he wasn't wanted.

What right has a man like him to come pushin' in like that?
His wife ain't been dead twelve months yet.

It ain't decent of him, is it ?" "Do you want a legal opinion ?" asked Toole, reaching for a large law book that lay on the table.
"No, I don't!" cried the Colonel in alarm; "I don't want to run up no charges.

I don't care whether it's legal or not, it ain't friendly, after him and me has worked together buildin' up this Citizens' Party, and all.