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"Which," said Mrs Bowldler in magnificent anacoluthon, "if we see it as we ought, this bein' no ordinary occasion, but in a manner of speakin' one of Potentates and Powers and of our feelin's in connection therewith; by which I allude to our beloved Queen, whom Gawd preserve! Gawd bless her! "Not they! Ho, not, if I may use the expression by a long chalk!"
"I realize that if I had a husband instead of a jellyfish I shouldn't have to talk. Be still, you!" A third voice made itself heard. "All right," it growled. "I ain't anxious to stay here any longer than is necessary. Bein' an honest, decent man, I'm ashamed to be seen here as it is. But you can tell that low-lived sneak, Ros Paine, that " I opened the door.
I have held up a train to hear what the passengers would say, but lackin' the advantages that has doubtless been yours, I duck when it comes to reformin' Heaven. "'It struck me with the force of a revelation when I arrived at your glowin' mertroppollus this afternoon that to make any human bein', particlerly children, forget for a time that they lived in Oggsouash was a religious duty.
As Josiah and I wuz a-wendin' along on the gallery a-frontin' the lake, I heard a man he looked some like a minister, too say to another one, sez he, "The style of this buildin' is Corinthian." And I spoke right up, bein' determined that Josiah and I too should be took for what we wuz good, Bible-readin' Methodists. I said to Josiah, but loud enough so that the man should hear
She's a terr'ble hand for runnin' away, or, ruther, for not bein' where she should be when wanted. The wind has riz awful. It don't rain none yet, but's goin' to right off. I didn't think to fetch an umberell an' couldn't have used it if I had. Not again' this blow. Alfy, you call Katharine, and we'll start back prompt. No, thank ye, Madam, I won't stop to set down, not this time.
It took a heap uv ground fur 'em to stand on, ground that might be covered with grass an' bushes an' trees, all in deep an' purty green like them out thar. Me bein' what I am, I always think it's a pity to ruin a fine forest to put a town in its place." "Those cities, I think, were mostly in desert countries with an artificial water supply."
But in that dream we talked an' talked said things about old noted folks right out an' told about 'em without beginnin' it 'I happened to read the other day. An' I know I mentioned the sun on the leaves an' the way the clouds looked, right out, too, without bein' afraid the girl that was me would think I was affected.
Besides, ye can then go an' give him in charge of Capting Montague. But if ye try to prewent the escape bein' attempted, Henry will take the bloody way of it; for I tell you, his birse is up, an' no mistake." "How many men are to be with Gascoyne?" asked Thorwald, who, had he not been naturally a stupid man, must have easily seen through this clumsy attempt to blind him.
But I'm goin' back ag'in, you may bet high on that. No more work in the shoe shop for me at the old rates. I don't mean that I'd mind bein' a manufacturer on a big scale. That's a little more stiddy and easy than bein' at the mines, but that takes more capital than I've got." "How much does it cost to go out there?" asked Dan Tompkins. "More money than you can scare together, Dan.
"It would have pleased you better had we made the attempt to get into the fort?" "Ay, ten times over, for then instead of roaming these woods, taking a fool's chances of bein' shot down, we might be comfortable and in safety." "An' remained there so long as pleased Colonel Gansevoort, for once inside that fort we placed ourselves under his command." "Well, and why not?" I asked, in surprise.
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