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"I shall be glad to see anybody," was the reply, "who is like you or your little friends;" and bidding the poor woman a good-by, they went back to the plain. Henry Boyd remembered his promise to Mrs. Lindsay, and before the sun was down the company were on their way home. The talk and clatter of the morning were now hushed.
No doubt we might slowly learn not to like them more than anybody else; but we need not take the trouble to learn that lesson.
'If anybody comes on office business, take their messages, and say that the gentleman who attends to that matter isn't in at present, will you? said Miss Brass. 'I will, ma'am, replied Dick. 'I shan't be very long, said Miss Brass, retiring. 'I'm sorry to hear it, ma'am, rejoined Dick when she had shut the door. 'I hope you may be unexpectedly detained, ma'am.
"Come," he continued, "couldn't we clear this matter up sensibly? Do you believe that there is anybody in there? Do you believe the place is being used in any way for a wrong purpose? If so, we will insist upon having the keys from Mr. Fentolin. He cannot refuse. The place is mine." "Mr. Fentolin would not give you the keys, sir," she replied. "If he did, it would be useless."
I arrived at nightfall, and the burying was not to take place till the morning, which I was rather sorry for, as I am not very fond of them Hernes, who are not very fond of anybody.
"Yes, she told me she was sure Sarah would wake up in a few days and make a 'clean breast of it. Tavia declared she had done nothing wrong herself, and that she was not afraid of anybody, but, she said, there was going to be trouble, and she never ran into trouble when she could run the other way." "Well, dear," said the sister, "you had better go to bed now.
"Dunno," said Joses, gruffly, "and not knowing, can't say." "Have you seen anything, then?" "No." "Have you heard of anything?" "No." "Has anybody brought bad news?" "No." "Then what is it?" cried Bart. "Why don't you speak." "'Cause I've nothing to say, only that I'm sure there's something wrong." "But why are you sure?" "Because the Beaver's so busy." "What is he doing?" "All sorts of things.
I was goin' to stay, but bein' all alone I got skeered.... The sheep was doin' fine. Good water an' some grass. An' this ain't time fer varmints to hang round." "Jake, keep your eye on that flock," returned Isbel. "An' if I shouldn't happen to come back y'u can call them sheep yours.... I'd like your boy to ride up to the village. Not with us, so anybody would see him. But afterward.
But I haven't told anybody about what happened I haven't even hinted it to anybody. And I told the parson to get out of the country, so he wouldn't do any gassing about it. And I haven't been over to Dry Bottom to have the marriage recorded and I am not going to go. So that you can have it set aside at any time." Yes, she could have the marriage annulled, she knew that.
I must seem very ignorant to you; but you must try to overlook that, because I have never had any experience of such a swell duel as this before. I have had a good deal to do with duels on the Pacific coast, but I see now that they were crude affairs. A hearse sho! we used to leave the elected lying around loose, and let anybody cord them up and cart them off that wanted to.
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