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The red was very apparent now, and the other took a step forward, and his words came slowly: "Peck Maguire told me, an' I shut his dirty mouth for him. But now I know it's true. You're ridin' with the pilgrim's girl." At the inference the Texan whitened to the eyes. "You're a damned liar!" The words came evenly but with a peculiar venom. Curt half drew his gun. Then jammed it back in the holster.
"Why the poor little thing " "What poor little thing?" I interrupted. "Michele's baby. It lay there in dirty rags with its pinched white face staring up at me as though just begging for a clean bed." "What's the matter with it?" "Matter with it? It's a wonder it isn't dead and buried.
There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all." The Ghost smiled thoughtfully, and waved its hand: saying as it did so, "Let us see another Christmas!" Scrooge's former self grew larger at the words, and the room became a little darker and more dirty.
His nature reacts viciously under drink, however, in many cases, and he is then a dangerous customer. The women of many tribes are a most pitiable lot of hard working, ragged and dirty humanity.
This gave rise, more than once, to a warning cry, and the loud talking and ordering on this spot, for so many years left solitary and silent, attracted an inquirer, who, soon after the apprentice had begun his work, had shown herself on the balcony, but who had soon retreated after casting a glance at the dirty lad, splashed from head to foot with plaster.
Though folks don't generally write love letters on blue paper. It suggests something too legal." Bill yielded up the paper with a good-natured smile. "It's all mussed and dirty," he said, in a sort of apology. "That's up to me," cried Helen. "Anyway a woman's curiosity don't mind dirt." She smoothed the paper carefully as she paused at the foot of the pine. Bill looked around.
The proprietor began to talk of less dangerous subjects. Craig succeeded in drawing out from him the yegg recipe for making "soup." "It's here in this cipher," said the man, drawing out a dirty piece of paper. "It's well known, and you can have this. Here's the key. It was written by 'Deafy' Smith, and the police pinched it."
Thus, in haste, we drew near the steamer, which lay tossing ponderously in the ground-swell, her engines panting, her lamps bright, her many lights shining from port-hole and deck all so cozy and secure in the dirty night: so strange to our bleak coast! At the head of the ladder the purser stood waiting to know about landing the freight. "Is you goin' on?" my father asked.
For a moment his heart beat high with the hope that this movement might help him to escape. "You know, you rogue! Tell me, or it will be the worse for you." "I don't know," replied McKay stoutly; "and if I did I should not tell you." "Dirty spy! You would have sold us for a price, do the same now by the others. You owe them no allegiance; besides, you are in our power.
He had heard that idiots or half-witted people were like that. She rose uneasily, placing upon her long, sprawling curls an old sun hat, very dirty, the brim misshapen by frequent wettings of pipe-clay. A servant appeared from behind the far corner of the verandah, an old man, dark skinned, emaciated, clad in a faded red sarong. He was her personal servant, told off to attend her.
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