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Do you think he can afford to be bothered with unfinished business?" He worshiped her with silence and a smile. "Yes, Mister Mayor of Marion, unfinished business yours and mine! Our business of the old days. But the honorable Senator is perfectly well aware that the business aforesaid is on the calendar. He had been supposing that we had forgotten it.
"I don't think I minded it very much, sir. Except when I was bothered by the bears I slept a good lot. I think at first I used to talk out loud a good deal. But I soon dropped that, though I used to whistle sometimes when I was cooking the food.
His thanks, his delight, was in the sudden lighting up of his whole face. But he did not offer a verbal expression of his feelings until he had read down the first page. Then he looked up with eyes that were almost moist with gratitude. "Say," he began, "I can't never tell you how 'bliged I am, Sunny. These things have bothered me a whole heap. It's kind of you, Sunny, it is, sure.
In the winter, also, he was extremely lonely, as the Miller never came to see him then. "'There is no good in my going to see little Hans as long as the snow lasts, the Miller used to say to his wife, 'for when people are in trouble they should be left alone and not be bothered by visitors. That at least is my idea about friendship, and I am sure I am right.
"I'll get change in a minute," and he was flying off again with the bill thrust into his hand. "I don't take any change here. I don't want any; I won't be bothered with it," declared Mr. Cabot, in his most decided fashion. "But this is ten dollars," said Joel, aghast, and stopping short to flap the bill. "Never mind, that's my affair; go along, or I'll report you.
It was very evident that Sara meant mischief, but just how great was his capacity for doing him harm Jim could only guess. The idea of his extremely friendly relations with Arthur Freet bothered Jim now. If Freet were really trying to influence the sale of the water power through Sara, the wise thing to do would be to send Sara back to New York. And yet, if Sara went, Pen would go, too!
They do about the same work, only they are not bothered by their men. In the days before the war the men worked in the fields in the summer, and in the carrière de plâtre, at Mareuil-lès-Meaux, in the winter. It was a hard life, and most of them drank a little. It is never the kind of drunkenness you know in America, however.
Bugs and spiders did not count against one in tent inspection, being looked upon as circumstances over which one had no control; hence no one ever bothered about them.
Oh! what have I done that I should be bothered in this way?
"I beg your pardon, Captain involved in what?" interrupted Mr. Woolridge, who seemed to be bothered by the proper name. "'The Battle of Khrysoko," repeated the commander with a smile. "That is the name the boys gave to the affair, calling it after the bay in which it occurred, though it is rather a high-sounding designation for it."
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