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"That's right," agreed Toby, "because already the sun is setting, and before long it'll be getting plumb dark. Luckily enough we thought to fetch that lantern along with us, though, and a supply of oil in the bargain." "I wonder," said Jack, with an amused chuckle, "if there was a single thing we did forget to pack in the wagon.
"Tell me, then, what is to be done?" Cazi Moto repeated the gist of what had been said. Kingozi nodded. "That is it." "Bwana?" Cazi Moto hesitated. "Yes. Speak." "That woman. Shall she be kibokoed or killed?" Kingozi caught back a chuckle. "No," he said gravely. "That will wait for later.
At last the little hand ceased waving, and the eyes closed. Only from time to time, as he went on sucking, the baby raised his long, curly eyelashes and peeped at his mother with wet eyes, that looked black in the twilight. The nurse had left off fanning, and was dozing. From above came the peals of the old prince's voice, and the chuckle of Katavasov.
"It's eighty-one now," said the original speaker, checking off the years upon her coarse red fingers, "and that were fifteen. Ten and ten, and ten, and ten, and ten why, it's only sixty-and-six year, so he ain't so old after all." "But he weren't a newborn babe at the battle, silly!" cried the young woman with a chuckle.
"I'm just like Cinderella, with four godmothers!" cried the child; and she danced up and down, as Leslie let her go from under her hands. "You're just like a little heathen!" screamed Aunt Hoskins. "Where's yer thanks?" Her own thanks spoke themselves, partly in an hysterical sort of chuckle and sniffle, that stopped each other short, and the rebuke with them. "But there! she don't know no better!
He added that of course he 'never wanted to see the fellow again after that, and never did. But presently, after a long gaze into the coals, he emitted a chuckle, as for earlier memories of 'such a funny fellow. One quite recent memory he had, too. 'When I took on the name of Dunton, I had a note from him. Just this, with his butterfly signature: Theodore! What's Dunton?
He lies, and steals, and cheats, and talks nonsense, and wants Nunaga for a wife." "And you don't want him for a son?" "No!" very decidedly. Rooney laughed, and, turning away with a wink and a nod, lay down to sleep this time in earnest. Okiok responded with a falsetto chuckle, after which he proceeded to solace himself with a mass of half-cooked blubber.
"Hold on Mister," said the younger man, with much spirit. "Old Maddy's case is different. His case was not a business transaction, it was a duty." The young visitor ducked his head to chuckle a little while he scraped the gravel with the toe of his shoe. "If you run into Andy Pelser, in about a month from now, you will know what I mean. Andy is young and bright, but old in the sheep game.
This was accompanied by a sneer and a chuckle, which the ambiguous old sinner could not for the blood of him suppress. "And now," he added, "I must be off." "Sir," said Father M'Mahon, rising up and traversing the room with considerable heat, "you have been tampering with the confidence I was disposed to place in you.
If there was a nicer place TO go, argues the minister, 'twould help the moral tone of the community consider'ble. 'Why not, says he to Stingy Gabe, 'start a free club for men that'll make the billiard room look like the tail boat in a race? And says Gabe: 'Bully! I'll do it." Captain Stitt paused long enough to enjoy a chuckle all by himself.
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