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Meanwhile Gurid, the daughter of Alf, seeing that the royal line was reduced to herself alone, and having no equal in birth whom she could marry, proclaimed a vow imposing chastity on herself, thinking it better to have no husband than to take one from the commons. Moreover, to escape outrage, she guarded her room with a chosen band of champions. Once Halfdan happened to come to see her.
J. J. was telling us there was an ancient Hebrew Zaretsky or something weeping in the witnessbox with his hat on him, swearing by the holy Moses he was stuck for two quid. Who tried the case? says Joe. Recorder, says Ned. Poor old sir Frederick, says Alf, you can cod him up to the two eyes. Heart as big as a lion, says Ned.
Dunlop will turn to be generous if he decides that we're the engineers for him." For some minutes the trio tramped on silently, in Indian file, Ferrers leading. "Hello, Alf!" bellowed Tom through the woods, as they neared their camp site. No answer came. "Where did you leave the little fellow, Jim?" inquired Reade. "I didn't notice which way he went, sir," returned the guide.
The speaker's voice had suddenly dropped to an excited undertone as he pointed to a couple of small dark marks that peeped above long grass and might have been the ends of a broken branch. Alf stared keenly for a few moments. "I thought I saw them move " "So did I. Wait a minute and we'll make sure."
Johnnie and Alf were in the seventh heaven of anticipation, and when Webb brought Amy a check for fifty dollars, and told her that it was the proceeds of his first crop from his brains, and that she must spend the money, she went into Mr. Clifford's room waving it as if it were a trophy such as no knight had ever brought to his lady-love. "Of course, I'll spend it," she cried.
"Why, Alf, I don't see why either of us should be afraid to go to the General's house. Go? Of course, we will. But you make me laugh when you say that if you were only as good-looking as I am. Let me tell you something." I briefly told him the uneventful story of my life, that ridicule had found me while yet I was a toddler and had held me up as its target.
She scarcely more than caught the ethereal song before Burt and Alf came down the path, trundling immense wheelbarrow-loads of the prunings of the shrubbery around the house.
Of course, he might be marched to the Boer camp in the next valley and there operated upon; but Army life teaches no man to cross bridges unnecessarily. "Yes, after eight years, my father, cheated by your bitch of a country, he found out who was the upper dog in South Africa." "That's me," said Copper valiantly. "If it takes another 'alf century, it's me an' the likes of me." "You?
Many were the exclamations of wonder and curiosity when they reached home. Alf went nearly wild, and little Johnnie's eyes overflowed with tears when she learned that the regal bird must die. As for Ned, had he not been restrained he would have given the eagle a chance to devour him.
The talk had drifted back to the people and gossip of Homeville, but, sooth to say, it had not on this occasion got far away from those topics. "Yes," said Mr. Harum, "Alf Verjoos is on the hull the best off of any of the lot. As I told ye, he made money on top of what the old man left him, an' he married money.
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