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Just as Step-hen said, it's like a boy trying to show his first skill in drawing; but in this case every little mark has its meaning." "It's interesting, all right, Allan," observed Davy Jones.
'But I wouldn't so much as give it another thought, said Peggotty, cheerily 'if my Davy was anyways against it not if I had been asked in church thirty times three times over, and was wearing out the ring in my pocket. 'Look at me, Peggotty, I replied; 'and see if I am not really glad, and don't truly wish it! As indeed I did, with all my heart.
Because, unless there's a hitch to the program, we ought to come on the landing where our boat is going to be in waiting, by ten o'clock to-morrow." "Hurrah!" cried Bumpus, who was already weary of "hiking" because his build made him less active than some of the other scouts, notably Davy and Giraffe. "Let's get a move on, then," suggested Step Hen.
"Near the Crab Orchard, and the lad killed and sculped a six-foot brave." "The Saints save us! And what'll be his name?" "Davy," said my friend. "Is it Davy? Sure his namesake killed a giant, too." "And is he come along, also?" said another. His shy blue eyes and stiff blond hair gave him a strange appearance in a hunting shirt. "Hist to him! Who will ye be talkin' about, Poulsson?
"I don't reckon there'd be much amusement in it . . . more worry and bother than anything else, I should say. It wouldn't be so risky if they were even as old as you were when I took you. I wouldn't mind Dora so much . . . she seems good and quiet. But that Davy is a limb." Anne was fond of children and her heart yearned over the Keith twins.
Susan tried to object, but Martin declared that Tim and Davy had helped to bring about the wedding; for if they had not been obliging enough to steal Arabella's dress, and lose it in the swamp, he argued, he would be there yet; so the boys deserved all the fun that was going.
Major Colfax leaped up in his chair. "Great Jehovah!" he shouted, "you described the wrong man." Colonel Clark roared with laughter, thereby spilling some of his toddy. "I'll warrant he did so," he cried; "and I'll warrant your agent went white as birch bark. Go on, Davy." "There's not a great deal more, sir," I answered, looking apprehensively at Major Colfax, who still stood.
Girls are fickle brutes." "For God's sake, Dick, if you do know of anything like that, tell me." "Cross my heart, Davy, I don't know, and that's straight." "We must catch the first train in the morning." "Don't hop around like that, Davy; you'll upset something. You can't hurry a train, kid. We'll catch it, all right. Sit down. Get a pipe and take a smoke. Keep cool. That's our game, kid.
"But they're bad enough," urged Davy; "because they must be breaking the laws by taking fish in some way that ain't allowed. And if trapped they stand a chance to face a heavy fine, or a long sentence in jail, perhaps both.
The first persons who came to see us were Sir Humphry and Lady Davy, who have been uniformly and zealously kind and attentive to us. We have been frequently at their dinners and parties, and I should fill a roll as long as that genealogy Foote unrolled across the stage, if I were to give you a list of the names of all the people we have met at their house.
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