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Now the p'int's just here. You don't come to the country to amuse yourself by developin' a property, like most city chaps do, but to make a livin'. Well, don't you see? This farm is like a mill.
Mebbe if we wait it'll begin to run again." The hopefulness of youth crept into Melissa's quivering voice. Lysander shook his head dismally. "I'm willin' enough to hold off, M'lissy, but I hain't got much hope. There ain't any Moses around here developin' water, that I know of. The meracle business seems to have got into the wrong hands this time; danged if it hain't.
"But you see, McCabe, as an expert in altruism, I have reached the point where I no longer act hastily on crude conclusions. Possibly you will fail to understand, but now I take a certain pride in doing just the right thing in exactly the right way." "I knew you was developin' into some variety of nut," says I. "So that's it, eh? Well, go on." J. Bayard smiles indulgent and shrugs his shoulders.
If the mount'n country was worth developin', we should have developed it; if not, we should have left." "I've often wondered why you didn't, Uncle Eli," said Hamilton. "Yo' must remember," the Kentuckian said, "that the mount'neers are a most independent lot. They want to be independent, an' up hyeh, every man is his own master.
"They allow the Schools a little blank ammunition after we've passed the third standard; and we nearly always bring it on to the ground of Saturdays." "The deuce you do! Why?" "On account of these amateur Volunteer corps, Sir. They're always experimentin' upon us, Sir, comin' over from their ground an' developin' attacks on our flanks.
Likewise he had his hands full keepin' the folks alongshore from findin' out what was goin' on. All this flyin' foolishness had to be a dead secret. "But, busy as he was, he found time to notice the thick acquaintance that was developin' between Augustus and Olivia.
And then come that ridic'lous business about Sarah Ann Christy. That ended it for good and all." Seth paused in his long story and looked out across the starlit sea. "Who was Sarah Ann?" asked Brown. The lightkeeper seemed much embarrassed. "She was a born fool," he declared, with emphasis; "born that way and been developin' extry foolishness ever since.
"Trainin' an' developin' prominent people!" he explained. "Um!" remarked Mr. Tutt. "Who invited you to testify in this case?" "Mr. Mooney." "Oh, you're a friend of Mooney's! That is all!" Now it is apparent from these questions and answers that Mr. Burke had testified to nothing to his discredit and had conducted himself as a gentleman and a sportsman according to his best lights.
This dark room developin' seance work is bosh to stall the dopes along. Still, Mrs. Markham has always played a lone hand. She's never mixed with other mediums, which is why I'll be safe in goin' into her house she won't recognize me. Probably she's kept some fool notions that the rest of us lost long ago. But the poor little puss!" her voice sank to a ripple "the poor little puss!"
Somebody told you you're a star reporter and you believe it. You're developin' a temperament, like a prima donna. I'm payin' you a compliment by giving you a swell feature story; I'm sendin' you where you'd probably like to go anyway; I'm payin' your expenses for your vacation. I'm payin' for all the beer and ale you can guzzle and you balk. What the "
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