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Douglas laughed a little brokenly. He put his arm around old Johnny's shoulder and with his free hand took the gun. "Don't you worry about me, Johnny. Your job is the church and the preacher and you remember you promised not to shoot until you told me about it." "That's right," exclaimed the preacher. "And now I suggest that you let me read a chapter from the Bible and that we then get to bed."
She blushed; she could feel the warm tide pulsing in her temples; and she laughed brokenly from sheer happiness. "You shouldn't have taken such a risk, Dorothy. I told you not to." "You're taking that risk, Gordon, and more." "That's different. It's so dark a night, I thought I'd chance it." "There's not much risk for me," she declared. "I can reach home in five minutes.
Perhaps it was the mere entreaty of the music, for her dulled ear had never grown deaf to it; or perhaps a memory, flitting as a shadow, of other places and other times, in which the hymns of God's church had not been strange to her. She caught the words at last, brokenly. They were of some one who was wounded. Wounded! she held her breath, listening curiously.
"I'll pay you for your rifle right now," mumbled Hawk, feeling with his right hand in his trousers pocket for some gold pieces. "Don't talk monkey stuff, Abe." "Then don't make a monkey out of me," snapped Hawk. "Give me your rifle and let me go!" "After we've talked it over." Hawk pulled himself up out of the chair. "You blamed fool," he said brokenly.
The cry brought Jean Bènard from the hut at a run. "What ees it, m'sieu?" he asked as he reached Stane who knelt there as if turned to stone. "It is a dead girl," answered Stane, brokenly "a girl who gave her life for mine." The trapper bent over the prostrate form, then he also cried out. "Miskodeed!" "Yes! Miskodeed. I did not know it was she!
"Hang it, Fred," said he, rather brokenly; "how can what's babyish in men whip a full-grown steamboat captain?" "The same way that it whipped a full-grown woolen-mill manager once, I suppose, old boy," said Macdonald. "Is that so?" exclaimed the captain, astonishment getting so sudden an advantage over shame that he turned over and looked his companion in the face. "Why how are you, Fred?
Forgive ha! on your lives Let him not faint! rack him till he revives! "Vain vain give o'er. His eye Glazes apace. He does not feel you now; Stand back! I'll paint the death-dew on his brow. Gods I if he do not die But for one moment one till I eclipse Conception with the scorn of those calm lips! "Shivering! Hark! he mutters Brokenly now: that was a difficult breath Another?
Preposterous too was her head-gear, an amorphous bonnet trimmed in black, with a cheap black feather drooping brokenly. Her eyes gave me a reproachful glance and turned away again. Then she shrugged her shoulders and sniffed. My mother had a housemaid once who always sniffed like that before beginning to cry. My position was untenable.
"If that's encouragement, I'm much obliged," he answered dryly and then with sudden weariness: "Does it bother you particularly that I don't want to work?" "It doesn't bother me but, it does bother a lot of people who claim " "Oh, God!" he said brokenly, "it seems to me that for three years I've heard nothing about myself but wild stories and virtuous admonitions. I'm tired of it.
Nothing remaining to be done, on the following day the boys kissed their tearful mothers good-by, and warmly shook hands with Mr. Palmer, who brokenly murmured, "God bless you! be good boys!" as he saw them off on the steamer bound for Seattle, and thence to Juneau, where they safely arrived one day early in April, 1897.