They are gittin' along in years, but mebby there is some fight left in 'em yet.
"I think like as not that Josiah and Ury could have got 'em to kinder backin' up and kickin' at each other, and actin'.
"I wouldn't gin a cent to seen it go on, but it would have been interesting I hain't a doubt on't, to them that wuz gin to that sort o' things.
"But, as I sez, I wouldn't put it on you, Ulaley." The Infanty looked real pleasant here--she almost laughed, she looked so amiable at me; she realized well that she wuz a-meetin' one of the first wimmen of the nation, and that woman wuz a-doin' well by her.
"But, as I say, Ulaley, I knew that it wuz too hard for you.

I knew that between them Ward McAllisters of society, and the hosts of your honest admirers, from Uncle Sam down to Commander Davis and Miss Mayor Gilroy, you wuz fairly beat out.

And I wouldn't put you to the extra effort of comin' to Jonesville.

I hated to give it up, but Duty made me, and I want you to understand it and to explain it all out to Spain jest how it wuz." She smiled real sweet, and said she would, and she said "that she appreciated my thoughtful kindness." She wuz too much of a lady to talk about them that had entertained her.
And I spoze she _had_ been entertained through them New York parties.
She's quite a case for fun, and we got to feelin' real well acquainted with each other, and congenial.
She looked dretful pretty as she looked out sideways at me and smiled.
She's as pretty as a pink.
And sez she, "You are very kind, madam; I highly appreciate your goodness." "Yes," sez I, "it wuz nothin' but goodness that kep me back, for Josiah and I both think our eyes on you, both as a smart, pretty woman, and a representative of that country that wuz the means of discoverin' us." And sez I with a shudder, and a skairful look onto me, "I can't bear to think of the contingency to not had Jonesville and Chicago discovered, to say nothin' of the rest of the World.
"But," sez I, "my anxiety to put myself right in your eyes has runaway with my politeness." Sez I, "How is all your folks ?" Sez I, "How is little Alphonso?
We think a sight of that boy here, and his Ma.

She's a-bringin' him up first rate, and you tell her that I think so.