Now, supposing those parties was talking of this thing and
that, as anybody might do, and, say, they got to talking of the show
business maybe, or, say, they happened to mention such a thing as
matrimony, now," says Stevey Todd, "what would be your idea of that
last as a subject of conversation between those parties?"
Madame Bill didn't answer the question, though it seemed to me put
delicate, but she burst into melodious laughter, and ran away, and
the tin-type man, whose natural expression was dislike of his fellow
man, he looked disgusted more'n you'd believe, and went away too.
Then Stevey Todd put his head through the window, and he says:
"Now, supposing a party acted in such or such a way to one party,
which acted another way to another party, what would you say might
happen to be her meaning?"
I gave my opinion candid, and truthful. I said, as to Madame Bill, I
judged something or other pleased her, and by her behaviour to
Flannagan it looked as if there was something then which she hadn't
liked, though what it might be in either case was more than I could
say, but speaking generally it looked hopeful for Stevey Todd, and I
stated that same opinion.
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