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Guess you wouldn't get that much time only for the age of this bunch of the tailings of a misspent life. Clear. Clear quick the whole darn outfit." All the dignity and formality of an Indian pow-wow were banished in a moment. The interpreter conveyed the briefest gist of the white man's words, even as he hastily scrambled to his feet.
If Joseph lied to him now, he would find means to return, he told himself, and so he took the oath demanded. Joseph dipped his pen, and paused meditatively to watch a drop of ink, wherewith it was overladen, fall back into the horn. The briefest of pauses was it, yet it was not the accident it appeared to be.
On any much-belabelled piece of baggage the porter always pastes the new label over that which looks most recent; else the thing might miss its destination. Now, paste dries before the end of the briefest journey; and one of my canons was that, though two labels might overlap, none must efface the inscription of another.
I reminded myself that I had had nearly no conversation with him, that our intercourse had been of the briefest, that I had seen him only three times altogether, and that I scarcely knew him at all. And yet I was going to marry him! In a few days more I should be his wife, and we should be bound together as long as life should last!
'Are you there, Miss Coningham? Could you help me to find a book I left here? There was silence; but after the briefest pause I heard the sound of her dress as she swept hurriedly out into the gallery. I advanced. On the top of the steps, filling the doorway of the armoury in the faint light from the window, appeared the dim form of Brotherton. 'I beg your pardon, I said.
"I never could live in that treeless country," she went on. "Water, running as God made it, plenty of it, is a necessity to me. But please take your seat, Mr. Tisdale." She settled back in her place and began to date her telegram. "I am just sending the briefest message to let Mrs. Feversham know where I am."
The great majority of these errors are, however, as I have said, extremely unimportant; and nearly all of them seem to have arisen in the ways I have suggested through simple carelessness, and not with any intent of corrupting the text. The translations of the Bible which were made in early days into other languages than our own must be dismissed with the briefest mention.
The groups of people bade each other good-night merrily, though the entertainment had been a little tiresome to every one at the last, and it seemed the briefest space of time before Miss Fraley and Nan and their cavalier were left by themselves, and at last Nan and George Gerry were alone together. For his part he had never been so happy as that night.
It had taken but the briefest time for the miners to go at their work. Beth stood near, watching the process with the keenest interest. It seemed to her a back-breaking, strenuous labor. These sturdy old fellows, grown gray and stooped with toil grown also expectant of hardship, ill-luck, and privations were pathetic figures, despite their ways of cheer.
It came from Van. He had written the briefest of notes: "Just to send my love. I want you to wear my nugget." Folded into the paper was a spray of the wild peach bloom. Beth tried to think her blushes were those of indignation, which likewise caused the beat of her heart to rise. But her hand fluttered prettily up to her breast, where the nugget was pinned inside her waist.
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