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"C-c-can't make 'em hang," lamented Montgomery, after a few moments' unsuccessful effort. "Course not. That string's too light. Wait. I'll fetch something," said Katharine, as decorator in charge. Then she sped into the house and borrowed Susanna's clothes-line. "My clothes-line, child? What on earth for?" "Oh, you'll see sometime. I sha'n't hurt it!" returned the eager girl, skipping away.
He tried to read it, but his hand shook so that he had to put it on his knee, and then he discovered that his eyes had not yet got used to the light. He could not see the print. "I c-c-can't," he wailed. And the other man took the paper from him. "I'll read it to you," he said. "Now you listen, and put your mind on it, and make sure I've got it all right."
"It is true," he said. "BUT c-c-can't I meet him somewhere in the hills? Brisighella is a risky place for me." "Every inch of ground in the Romagna is risky for you; but just at this moment Brisighella is safer for you than any other place." "Why?" "I'll tell you in a minute. Don't let that man with the blue jacket see your face; he's dangerous.
Lightning always does strike barns, doesn't it?" With a philosophy beyond his years Montgomery changed the subject. "I shall have to boost you, i-i-if you c-c-can't climb without. P-p-put your feet right th-th-there I'm b-bo-boo-boostin' my best! Catch hold the s-sill! Cracky! Up you g-g-go!"
It was a tribute to his power, but when they took to sobbing one against the other, his temper rose, and he sternly commanded silence. "I shall be like this every day at sea," sobbed Chrissie vindictively, "only worse; making us all ridiculous." "Stop that noise directly!" vociferated the captain. "We c-c-can't," sobbed Miss Polson. "And we d-don't want to," said Chrissie.
"Who the devil asked her to see us?" rapped out Captain Barker. "You are to take these two letters," interposed Captain Runacles. Each captain held out his letter. "You are to take these two blow your nose and dry your eyes letters to your mistress at once mind you, at once and together together, you understand, and what in thunder are you whimpering about?" "I c-c-can't, sirs." "Can't!
Again as Jim approached him, the minister's boy planted a blow on his ribs that made Jim spin. "Charlie!" cried Jim. "Shut up!" The same peculiarly commanding note that had silenced his mates pierced through Charlie's hysteria. He paused for a moment, and in that moment Jim said, "Hold your breath and they can't draw blood. I'll have 'em off you in a second." "C-c-can't they?" sobbed Charlie.
"And you have the presumption to say that he doesn't care? Why, that picture doesn't simply tell his secret. It yells it!" "I don't care," said the hard-pressed Bobbie. "It hasn't yelled it to me. Nobody's yelled it to me. And I c-c-can't ask a m-m-man to to " "Perhaps you can't," allowed her adviser magnanimously. "On second thought, it won't be necessary.
And I'm not sure that I oughtn't to be angry with you for agreeing with me when I didn't expect you to." The rooster gave a hoarse crow. He thought Turkey Proudfoot was joking. And being afraid of Turkey Proudfoot, the rooster felt obliged to laugh loudly at his jokes. "Don't laugh at me!" Turkey Proudfoot cried. "C-c-can't I laugh at the six silly geese?" the rooster stammered.
You say I ought to l-l-liquidate my b-b-brother's af-f-fairs, to p-p-prevent the f-f-failure. I c-c-can't be in two p-p-places at once, unless I were a little b-b-bird, and " "I understand," cried the notary. "Well, my old friend, you have friends, old friends, capable of devoting themselves to your interests." "All right!" thought Grandet, "make haste and come to the point!"
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