Then the Edwardses house'll be tore down and Olive'll have to go, of course." The depot master puffed thoughtfully at his cigar.
"She won't hear before the tenth, at the earliest," he said.

"And if Williams begins to move his 'Colonial' at once, he'll get it to her lot by the seventh, sure.

Have you given him your figures for the job ?" "Handed 'em in this very mornin'.

One of his high-and-mighty servants, all brass buttons and braid, like a feller playin' in the band, took my letter and condescended to say he'd pass it on to Williams.

I'd liked to have kicked the critter, just to see if he COULD unbend; but I jedged 'twouldn't be good business." "Probably not.