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"Shure, Ned, me boy," said Battersleigh, "ye've yer side arms on this evenin'. Ye give up the profission of arms with reluctance. Tell me, Ned, what's the campaign fer the evenin'?" "Well," said Franklin, "I thought I'd step over and sit awhile with Curly this evening. He may be feeling a little lonesome." "Quite right ye are, me boy," said Battersleigh cheerfully. "Quite right.
And there was nothing fearful to Verka in this impending death. "Well, now, is it better to croak just so, under a fence? But here it's together with your dearie! At least a sweet death! ..." And she frantically kissed her clerk, laughed, and with dishevelled, curly hair, with sparkling eyes, was prettier than she had ever been. The final triumphal moment arrived at last.
His hat was rather jauntily placed on his curly red hair. 'Why am I seized? at length said the man. 'Where did you get that pony? said the Doctor. 'I bought it, was the reply. 'Of whom? 'A stranger at market. 'You are accused of robbery, and suspected of murder, said Dr. Masham. 'Mr.
Then they saw their mamma and papa looking anxious, and talking together in their grunting language, and Wuff-Wuff asked: "Has anything happened?" "Squinty is lost!" said Mrs. Pig, rubbing her nose up against that of Curly Tail, the littlest girl pig of them all. "He must have run out of the pen when we were asleep." "Oh dear!" cried all the little pigs, and they felt very badly.
"Who engaged that new servant of yours?" he asked. "I mean the fat fellow, with the curly flaxen hair." "Hiring servants," I replied, "is not much in my way. I left the engagement of the new man to Mrs. Mozeen." Rothsay walked gravely up to my bedside. "Lepel," he said, "your respectable housekeeper is in love with the fat young footman." It is not easy to amuse a man suffering from bronchitis.
Gray's hand wandered caressingly about her daughter's neck in a way Roberta dearly loved, drawing the loosened dark locks away from the small ears, or twisting a curly strand about her fingers. Suddenly the girl burst out: "Mother, what are you to do when you find all your theories upset?" "All upset?" repeated Mrs. Gray, in her rich and quiet voice. "That would be a calamity indeed.
Thus they came, winding their way among the stark rocks and the clumps of Spanish bayonet, and when the leader caught sight of Curly Bill from under his huge, silver decked sombrero, he reined in his horse; his grip tightened on the rifle which he carried across his saddle.
When Strauss met us in the street and called to us with a certain unction in his melodious voice, "Good-morning, my dear children in Christ!" our hearts went out to him, and it seemed as if we had received a blessing. He and his son Otto used to call me "Marcus Aurelius," on account of my curly blond head; and how often did he put his strong hand into my thick locks to draw me toward him!
They were walking along the shore now, about one hundred yards from the cabin. Reynolds was amazed at the story, and when Glen finished he suddenly stopped. "Oh, I wish I had known of this sooner," he declared, while his hands clenched hard. "Why didn't you tell me before?" "I was afraid," Glen confessed in a low voice. "Afraid! Of what?" "Of what you might do to Curly."
He did not even yet know the color of her eyes, or texture of her hair, whether it were curly or straight, black or brown; but he knew in various ways that she was there knew it by the sound of dancing feet upon the stairs, which were wont to echo only to Mrs.
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