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Would you say, now, Joseph Antony, that he was anyways uneasy in his mind?" "He was uneasy," said Kinsella, "but he's easy now." "Did you tell him who the gravel was for?" "Is it likely I'd tell him when I didn't know myself?
"Well, we'll see what we'll see," he wheezed complacently. "And anyways I got to have some horseshoe plug, Melissy." The girl laughed nervously as she reached for what he wanted. "You're a safe prophet, Mr. Baker," she said. "He'd be a safe one if he'd prophesy that Jack Flatray would have Mr. Hold-up in the calaboose inside of three days," put in a half-grown lad in leathers.
And then she begun talking about the mountains, and then she begun asking "About you!" suggested Ronicky with a grin. "Confound you," said Bill Gregg. "How come you guessed that?" "I dunno. I just sort of scented what was coming." "Well, anyways, that's what she done. And pretty soon she sent me a snapshot of herself. Well " "Lemme see it," said Ronicky Doone calmly.
'That's not so bad as hintin' we should loose off on the colonel. 'Colonel be sugared! I'd as soon as not put a shot through his helmet to see him jump and clutch his old horse's head. But Mulcahy talks o' shootin' our comp'ny orf'cers accidental. 'He said that, did he? said Horse Egan. 'Somethin' like that, anyways.
Hart had said about Dixie's desire to sell her farm, and a slow twinkle of a set purpose began to burn in his eyes. "It might work," he said to himself. "Anyways, that debt notion has got to be got out of the way or I'll never make any progress.
"You talk as if 'twas a box o' matches. . . . Well, I may, or I mayn't; but anyways I've followed the case before Petty Sessions; and if you haven't a leg to stand on, the only thing is to walk out peaceably. Mind, I'm puttin' it unofficial, as between friends." "And what if I don't?" "Then, rat it all!
He was going to West Wallen for a doctor. "She thinks," he continued, with absolute white bewilderment on his features, "that she's in school all the while, and it's a gettin' late, and the teacher ain't there, and so she keeps a callin' for the teacher; and I wouldn't ask ye to go up, teacher, if you was anyways afeard, but it 'ud break your heart to hear her."
I've took ye up on trust as 'twere, likin' yer face for all that it's thin an' mopish, an' steppin' in wi' me to the 'Trusty Man' will mebbe give ye a character. Anyways, I'll do my best for ye!" "Thank you," said Helmsley simply. Again Peke looked at him, and again seemed troubled. Then, stuffing his pipe full of tobacco, he lit it and stuck it sideways between his teeth.
"Pulling the trigger, the way things are now, would certainly be a big start in that direction. But" the dry suspicion of a laugh crossed his eyes "to point a gun at a man and pull the trigger doesn't always kill him not, anyways, in this country. If it did, the population would fall off pretty strong in some of these northern counties.
"I'd make you pay, if 't was awnly for sayin' that! I'm a man to steal others' fur out of season, ban't I? But I doan't have no words wi' the likes o' you. I've took you fair an' square, anyways, an' will just ax if you be comin' wi'out a fuss, or am I to make 'e?" The other snarled. "You you come a yard nearer an' I'll blaw your damned head "
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