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"He must have been a skunk, if you ask me. Adele here was wrong, Mrs. Bannister; you and I won't quarrel about that. But Adele wasn't nothing but a child at heart " "I believed anything he told me!" Adele drawled, playing with her knife and fork, her lashes dropped.
"Goodness, I wouldn't like to chance it," said Mollie, slipping a middy over her head. "I am afraid we would have to carry her home at the end of the summer a sleeping beauty still." "Or a still sleeping beauty," Betty suggested. "That would be more to the point." "Suits me exactly," Grace drawled, "as long as the prince is handsome enough."
"And, afterwards, when Daddy and I were talking we agreed that you were probably the best man in Orham. There!" And she stooped impulsively and kissed him. Jed, very much embarrassed, shook his head. "That er insect I put in your pa's ear must have touched both your brains, I cal'late," he drawled. But he was pleased, nevertheless.
Chisholm sympathized with the rebel idealist whose beckoning visions led to the clash of arms. "Aren't you getting off the track," Vane asked Carroll. "I don't see the drift of your previous remarks." "Well," drawled Carroll, "there must be, I think, a certain distinctive stamp upon those who belong to the leader type I mean the people who are capable of doing striking and heroic things.
They were to start at three, and promptly at that hour Marcus drew up at the door. Eager to start, the girls were all waiting in the hall, when Arabella drawled: "Every one wait while I go and get my shawls." She darted up the stairs, Patricia calling after her: "Your shawls, goosie! Why you're wearing two coats and a sweater now." "What did Arabella say?" asked Betty Chase.
Rance took it upon himself to do the answering. Sauntering over to the Girl, he drawled out: "It takes you a long time to get up, seems to me. You haven't so much on, either," he went on, piercing her with his eyes. Smilingly and not in the least disconcerted by the Sheriff's remark, the Girl picked up a rug from the floor and wound it about her knees. "Well?" she interrogated.
Its slayer held the body of the bird over the fire in a similar manner, the poker having been thrust into the abdomen. They all sat, or rather stood in a squatting position with their faces to the fire. "Well, now, I reckon we shall make six considerable shares of this," drawled Cass, looking fondly at the carcass, which was slowly but temptingly spluttering before him at the fire.
What people?" "People pretty intimate with you, sir." "What people? Who spoke of us?" Richard began to scent a plot, and would not be balked. "Well, sir, look here," said the farmer. "It ain't no secret, and if it be, I don't see why I'm to keep it. It appears your education's peculiar!" The farmer drawled out the word as if he were describing the figure of a snake.
Now, when she returned he was eagerly awaiting her and would have haunted the parsonage before and after working hours of every day as well as the evening, if she had permitted, and when with her assumed a proprietary air which was so obvious that even Mr. Price felt called upon to comment on it. "Say, Al," drawled Issachar, "cal'late you've cut out Eddie Raymond along with Helen, ain't ye?
But Mac Strann closed the door of the stall, frowning thoughtfully, and thought on the face of Strann was a convulsion of pain. He dropped the second match to his feet, where it ignited a wisp of straw that sent up a puff of light. "Ah-h!" drawled Mac Strann. "The wolf ain't here, but we'll soon have him here. And the thing that brings him here will get rid of the black hoss."
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