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"And how long did that last?" "Until a hopfrog jumped into the pond." The reddleman suddenly ceased to talk idly. "A hopfrog?" he inquired. "Hopfrogs don't jump into ponds this time of year." "They do, for I heard one." "Certain-sure?" "Yes. She told me afore that I should hear'n; and so I did. They say she's clever and deep, and perhaps she charmed 'en to come." "And what then?"
"The deuce you have! That's strange, when the Emperor said your discovery " "It is a gold mine, but like gold mines, it has plunged the discoverer into debt." "I dare say it would! and I suppose it is not so certain-sure as the newspapers assert " "I beg your pardon, it is beyond all doubt," replied Clemenceau, sharply. "Stop a bit," said M. Cantagnac, pulling a newspaper out of his pocket.
Will you let her be comfortable-easy for two months more? Ach Gott! if I could only be certain-sure of that, I might leave those weak new eyes of hers to cure themselves, and go my ways back to London again." I had intended to remonstrate with him pretty sharply for taking Lucilla to Browndown.
Miss Heth smiled oh, so sweet, almost like in the Dream and then it was all over, and she was walking away, with the loveliest rustle ever was. And Kern stood lost in the thronging aisle, staring at the point where she had disappeared and giving little pinches to her thin arm just to make certain-sure, y' know ... This till the voice of Miss Whirtle spoke in her ear: "Say, Kurrin, I like that!
He had come to the big scene of his narrative when his master interrupted him: "Hold on a minute, Jeff! I don't know ez I get the straight of it all yit. I rather gathered frum whut you told me yesterday when you landed back home and made your report that you'd only been able to dig up one certain-sure wife of this feller's the one that came along with you and that little Arkansaw darky.
And it made him feel sure that something surreptitious and lawless was in process within those walls, that the confederate without, having failed to prevent a stranger from entering, left unemployed a means so certain-sure to rouse the occupants. But his inferential analysis of this phase of the proceedings was summarily abrupted by that identical alarm.
"That certain-sure sounds good to me!" cried Hiram, enthusiastically.
"And how long did that last?" "Until a hopfrog jumped into the pond." The reddleman suddenly ceased to talk idly. "A hopfrog?" he inquired. "Hopfrogs don't jump into ponds this time of year." "They do, for I heard one." "Certain-sure?" "Yes. She told me afore that I should hear'n; and so I did. They say she's clever and deep, and perhaps she charmed 'en to come." "And what then?"
P. for Peter, P. for Phyllis." "I put F. for Phyllis," said the child of that name. "That's how it sounds. The swallows wouldn't spell Phyllis with a P., I'm certain-sure." "They can't spell at all," Peter was still insisting. "Then why do you see them always on Christmas cards and valentines with letters round their necks? How would they know where to go if they couldn't read?"
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