Probably though 'twas to use up some 'f their paint that was a wastin'.

Equinomical, I sh'd say." Mrs.Stanley did not see her way clear to comment either upon the fact or the inference.

There were times when she did not understand Glover, and this was one of the times.

He had queer twistical ways of reasoning which often proved the contrary of what he seemed to want to prove; and she had concluded that he was a dark-minded man who did not always know what he was driving at; at all events, a man not invariably comprehensible by clear intellects.
Her attention was presently engaged by a stir in the pueblo.

Great things were evidently at hand; some spectacle was on the point of presentation; what was it?
Aunt Maria guessed marriage, and Captain Glover guessed a war-dance; but they had no argument, for the skipper gave in.