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Caligula, who is a spokesman by birth, and a small man, though red-haired and impatient of painfulness of any kind, speaks up. "Pardner," says he, "good-morning, and be darned to you. Would you mind telling us why we are at? We know the reason we are where, but can't exactly figure out on account of at what place."
"Why, to tell the truth," said he, "I never had any opinion of Miss Thorn." "You mean you never formed any, I suppose," I returned with some tartness. "Yes, that is it. How darned precise you are getting, Crocker! One would think you were going to write a rhetoric. What put Miss Thorn into your head?" "I have been coaching beside her this afternoon." "Oh!" said Farrar.
Suddenly Dick laughed. Bassett watched him, puzzled and angry, with a sort of savage tenderness. "You're crazy," he said morosely. "Darned if I understand you. Here I've got everything fixed as slick as a whistle, and it took work, believe me. And now you say you're going to chuck the whole thing." "Not at all," Dick replied, with a new ring in his voice. "You're right.
I find out right off that we're a lot of foreigners and you got to be darned careful not to hurt anybody's feelings.
And it was the swift doings of this here new foreman. He'd not only got us going again but had put us on a military basis. And at that he was nothing but a poor old wreck of a veteran from the trenches, aged all of twenty-one, shot to pieces, gassed, shell-shocked, trench feeted and fevered, and darned bad with nervous dyspepsia into the bargain.
"What's the matter, pal?" said Frawley, pausing in surprise. "You darned old Englishman," said Greenfield affectionately. "Say, Bub." "Yes, Bucky." "The dinkies are all right but but a Yank, a real Yank, would 'a' got me in six months." "All right, Bucky. Shall I raise you up?" "H'ist away." "Would you like the feeling of a gun in your hand again?" said Frawley, raising him up.
The man who has laboured from his youth upwards can endure with his arms. It is he who has had leisure to shoot, to play cricket, to climb up mountains and to handle a racket, that can walk. 'Darned if you ain't better stuff than I took you for, said Mick, as the three let the swags down from their backs on the veranda of Ridley's hotel at Ahalala.
Porter still regarding the masterpiece with an unfavourable eye. "Yes," she said, "the drawing is decidedly weak." "I shouldn't wonder," assented Kirk. "The dealers to whom I've tried to sell it have not said that in so many words, but they've all begged me with tears in their eyes to take the darned thing away, so I guess you're right." "Do you depend for a living on the sale of your pictures?"
"I don't see what you're making sech a darned fuss about dirt fer!" grumbled Sam as he arose from his knees after scrubbing the floor for the fourth time. "It's what we're all made of, dey say, an' nobuddy'll know de diffrunce." "Just see if they won't, Sam," encouraged Michael as he polished off the door he had been cleaning. "See there, how nice that looks!
"It's deuced odd, too queer, by Jove! I don't understand. Are you sure they're all locked up?" "Course I am." "And no servants?" "Not a darned servant." "Did you ask the concierge?" "Course I did; and crossed his palm, too. But he didn't give me any satisfaction." "What did he say?" "Why, he said they were at home, for they had been out in the morning, and had got back again.
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