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Splashing vigorously at the stationary wash-stand, George looked gloomily over his shoulder, and in sepulchral accents uttered the one word: "Shoot!" "How would you like to go to the theatre to-night?" George soaped noisily his huge red hands. "I'd like it so hard," he replied, "that I'm already dated up for an evenin' of intellect'al enjoyment.
Dave has been exhortin' of Wolfville to leave off its ways, over in the warehouse of the New York Store, an' that same evenin' Boggs, bein' some moved, confides in me how once he mebby half-way makes up his mind he'll be saved. "'Leastwise, says Boggs, when he takes me into his past that a-way, 'I allows I'll be religious in the spring after the round-up is over.
Poor Billy's weather-beaten face twitched under the lash of the old memory which had never lost its power over him. Janet did not take her eyes from him, nor did she break the spell by a word of hurry or question. Presently Billy went on. "An' then she came back here! Davy, he brought her across the bay after dark one evenin'. No one on the mainland knew.
She holds up dinner forty-five minutes while she sheds her travelin' costume for an evenin' gown. And it's some startlin' creation she springs on us about the time we're ready to bite the glass knobs off the dinin'-room doors. She's a stunner, all right, and she sails down with that baby stare turned on full voltage.
'M'rover, I says to him, 'our orders is explicit; Stiletto's reported broke down somewhere off the Start, an' we've been tryin' to coil down a new stiff wire hawser all the evenin', so it looks like towin' 'er back, don't it? I says. That more than ever jams his turrets, an' makes him keen to get rid of us. 'E even hinted that Mr.
"Are you goin' to spake about Peggy, though?" "I am, and listen. Do you remember one evenin' in the early part of this summer, it was of a Sunday, there was a crowd about old Brian Murtagh's house, and the report of Peggy's shame had gone abroad and couldn't be kept from people's eyes any longer.
To this result his debonair manner contributed, though it carried with it no suggestion of weakness. To the girl who looked up and found him there he looked indescribably sinister. She half rose to her feet, dilated eyes fixed on him. "Good evenin'. I came to make sure y'u got safe home, Miss Messiter," he said.
"When did you leave Cape Norman?" asked the Doctor. "Eight o'clock last evenin', sir," said the man. All night these brave men, with no thought of reward, had been enduring that terrible storm to bring assistance to a neighbor!
The accommodation passes about day break, and it'll git you there in the evenin', if it makes connections, which it often doesn't." "We must go on the through express," said Si firmly. There was a loud outcry by the mother and sisters, but the father recognized the demands of military discipline.
You'll find we here almost of any evenin' to-morrow, to begin with." "We had better be going now, Ferdinand," said his lordship, who dreaded the new beginning of the music. "Good-afternoon, Fuller. Good-afternoon, Eld. Good-afternoon, Gold." "Good-day, my lord," said Reuben, rather gloomily. He had not spoken until now, and Ferdinand had wished to note the accent.
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