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Then the Wag came with his welcome. "Didn't expect you to-day," he drawled, with unmistakable double meaning in his drawl. "You're come sooner than we expected. Must have had luck with the rivers "; and Mac became enthusiastic. "Luck!" he cried. "Luck! She's got the luck of the Auld Yin himself skinned through everything by the skin of our teeth.
Owens'. She's lost her mind completely a terrible thing has happened you'll help me?" "Cose I will, honey," the mountaineer drawled. "Jest ez quick ez I get on my shoes." "Is there a doctor near?" she asked breathlessly. He answered without looking up: "The best one that God ever sent to a sick bed. He don't charge nobody a cent in these parts.
She shook her head. "You don't know Jed's crowd. They'd be suspicious of any officer, no matter where he came from." "Far as I can make out, that young man is going to be loaded with suspicions of me anyhow," he laughed. "It isn't anything to laugh at. You don't know him," she told him gravely. "And can't say I'm suffering to," he drawled.
"Good-evening, gentlemen," said he, at home and smiling. "Sit down," drawled Raffles in casual response. "Say, let me introduce you to Mr. Ezra B. Martin, of Shicawgo. Mr. Martin is my future brother-in-law. This is Mr. Robinson, Ezra, manager to Sparks & Company, the cellerbrated joolers on Re-gent Street." I pricked up my ears, but contented myself with a nod.
Cronk stared vacantly. "Nope," he drawled; "I'll stay here in the hut with Midge. It's dark, and she's afraid of ghosts. I'll never steal ag'in, Mister, so I can't get pinched." Vandecar still insisted: "But won't you let your little girl come back and get her clothes? And you, too, can come to our home, for for a visit." His face crimsoned as he prevaricated. But Lon still shook his head.
Lawrence looks as old as you, and handles himself more grown up, somehow.” “He’s bigger,” Irving sighed. “Yes, ’t ain’t only that,” drawled Mr. Beasley. “Though ’t is a pity you’re so spindling; good thing for a teacher to be able to lay on the switch good and hard when needed.” “I don’t believe they punish with the switch at St. Timothy’s.” “Then I guess they don’t learn the boys much.
"Wait, I'll open it for you. I thought you were staying in town!" Noah removed a pair of unmistakably new tan gloves and opened the gate for himself. "I am staying in town," he said distantly "Are you coming in here?" "Yes, I think I will drop in for a little while, unless you have an engagement?" Noah's pause was even longer than usual. "No," he drawled presently. "I can't say I have.
But if it was a note of humanity in the voice it passed quickly, for presently, as he examined the bill for the funeral of the Sieur de Mauprat, he said shrilly: "Achocre, you've left out the extra satin for his pillow you." "There wasn't any extra satin," drawled the apprentice.
"What do you value these stones at?" the merchant finally inquired, as he removed the glass from his eye and turned to the man. "Wall, I don't suppose it would make much difference what my price might be," he drawled; "I know they're about as good ones as anybody would care to see, and you know about what you'd be willin' to give."
Susanna left the office with a drooping head, knowing the sadness that she had left behind. Brother Ansel sat under the trees near by, and his shrewd eye perceived the drift of coming events. "Well, Susanna," he drawled, "you're goin' to leave us, like most o' the other 'jiners. I can see that with one eye shut."
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