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“I should think you’d want to get out of here once in a while, though,” returned Truax. “Why?” asked the machinist. “Anything you want to be left alone here for?” “Oh, of course not,” drawled Truax, blowing out a cloud of tobacco smoke. “Then I guess I’ll stay where I am,” nodded Williamson.
'These affairs, alas! are very greatly to be de 'They are d d inconvenient, Sir George drawled. 'He is not out of danger yet, I suppose? The surgeon stared and puffed anew. 'Certainly not, sir, he said. 'Ah! And where have you placed him? 'The Honourable Mr. , the sufferer? 'To be sure! Who else, man? Soane asked impatiently.
Tom!" shouted Astro from the power deck. "We're smack out of reactant feed!" "Isn't there any left at all?" asked Tom. "Not even enough to get us into Marsopolis?" "We haven't enough left to keep the generator going!" said Astro. "Everything, including the lights and the teleceiver, will go any minute!" "Then we can't change course!" "Right," drawled Roger.
"Old Scotchie takes his religion out in prayin', I guess," drawled in Bill, "but wants to sponge for his plant." This reference to Robbie's proposal to use the school moved the youngsters to tittering and made the little Scotchman squirm, for he prided himself upon his independence. "There ain't $700 in the hull blanked outfit."
"Wal, if it ain't Walter King! What you after, young one? I hear you've become the proprietor of Surfside bought out the whole darn place for yourself." "I did buy it but I'm going to sell it again. It's too small. I can't get room enough to stretch up there," came impishly from the lad on the platform. "Show! You don't say!" drawled Mr. Burns with obvious relish of the joke.
"The law, my dear José, gives them a trial," drawled Gonzales. And then for a half-hour he quoted such law as was known in the country. When he finished, the impatient and suppressed members of the Junta delivered their opinions simultaneously; only Estenega had nothing to say. They argued and suggested, cited evidence, defended and denounced, lashing themselves into a mighty excitement.
"I think, Andy," drawled the mayor, a wry smile beginning to twist at the corners of his mouth, "that I may have the militia and the people and the politicians well out of it, but considering the mess, as it concerns me, myself, I'm only beginning to be good and properly in it." "Ye hae the record, as jotted by the lass, and I heard ye say naething but what was to your credit.
But with the words the Indian girl thrust forward the light rifle which she carried. For a moment its blue muzzle was set full against the white man's chest. "Oh!" gasped Jennie. And she was not alone in thus giving vent to her excitement. "Oh!" "Why doesn't she shoot him?" drawled Mercy Curtis.
I regretted to see him pass so often to the "bar." He was drinking deeply. He had returned to his station by the wheel-house, and was gazing ahead. Some straggling lights were gleaming on the right bank of the river, a mile farther up. The sight of these caused him to start, and utter a wild exclamation: "By Heavens! it is Bringiers!" "Ye-e-s," drawled the pilot at his elbow.
Late into the night the Twelve sat around a waving bonfire, their eyes twinkling at the memory of old victories and defeats, of struggles that were pleasant, whatever their outcome, just because they were struggles. At length Sleepy got himself to his feet with much difficulty. "Going to bed?" Jumbo sang out. "Nope," drawled Sleepy, and disappeared into the darkness.
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