Her statement was she hadn't made up her
mind before. Stevey Todd's opinion was that she'd have taken himself,
barring Flannagan's laying that stratagem, desperate and unrighteous.
On the other hand, Flannagan thought it was predestined on account of
his natural gifts. As for me, I had my doubts.
But Stevey Todd wouldn't stay with the show after that. We went on
east, and left him here, boarding at Pemberton's. He said he liked
Pemberton's and would stay there a bit. I says, "There's good points
in a quiet life, Stevey;" and Stevey Todd says, showing what was on
his mind:
"Aye, but Abe Dalrimple, he argues matrimony ain't quiet, and I
don't go so far as to dispute he may be right, and that's a point to
be allowed, for she throwed Montezuma's crown, not to speak of spears."
"Didn't neither," says Abe Dalrimple. "It was kettles. It wa'n't
none of them things," he says, alluding at Mrs. Dalrimple.
But as to Madame Bill, she was tropical, but not balmy, and
matrimony that wasn't balmy wouldn't have been good for Stevey Todd.
"But," says Stevey Todd, "as to her leanings to me and intentions
pursuant," he says, "I'd argue it, as shown by actions previous.
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