The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 19 Page 7

I mount as well git hit fer ye, but I did promise Azalie ‘at I’d speak that word to ye,” said the young man, rising with an air of relief.

“Tell your wife that you are both of you quite right, and that I am right also. Just hunt up my trousers, will you? I want my pocket-book. If I have to sign anything before anybody — bring him here. I don’t care what you do, so you get it. There, on that card you have it all — my full name and all that, you know.”

David tried to eat what Sally prepared for him, using his unbound hand; but his egg was hard, his coffee thick and boiled. He could not drink it very well for his head was too low, and he could not raise himself, so he lay silent and uncomfortable, watching her move about his rooms, wearing her