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This morning I started out to hunt and saw the smoke from your chimney, so I sent my gun bearer back to camp with the good news and rode straight over here myself. Of course I've heard of you everybody who comes into Central Africa does and I'd be mighty glad of permission to rest up and hunt around here for a couple of weeks." "Certainly," replied Bwana.
But she prepared to die, and made her will and divided her things. Mother found it out and put a stop to the business. I remember," said Grandma Padgett, laughing, "that I was disappointed, because I had to give back what she willed to me! yet I didn't want Adeline to die. She was a lively child. She jumped out of windows and tom-boyed around, but everybody liked her.
The progress of Catherine's unhappiness from the events of the evening was as follows. It appeared first in a general dissatisfaction with everybody about her, while she remained in the rooms, which speedily brought on considerable weariness and a violent desire to go home.
One man had been reading a book called the Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, and the talk turned on the unexplainable things that happen to everybody once or twice in a lifetime. I contributed a yarn about the men who went to look for Kruger's treasure in the bushveld and got scared by a green wildebeeste. It is a good yarn and I'll write it down some day.
"If you are right, and the man is a rascal, it is to his credit that he is trying to bring his son up as a gentleman. Perhaps he doesn't want Daniel to know anything of the past. Do you follow me?" "I do, sir. But if this is so, would he take his son into the tavern?" "Perhaps everybody is not so opposed to drinking as I am." "Well, if Mr.
"It was lonely when I first came," said Betty, the evening before she was to go away, as she walked to and fro between the box-borders with her father, "but I like everybody better and better, even poor Aunt Mary," she added in a whisper. "It is lovely to live in Tideshead.
We have read a book about the town, and all about the philanthropist who laid it out, and made a little Utopia I think that's the word for the laboring men in his employ, where they have little brick houses made to fit a family, with gas and water. The book says he was a regular father to them, and we want to see a place where everybody is happy and contented.
Unless you give me your word of honour not to breathe what I'm going to tell you to anybody except your friends, I won't say a word." "I promise, of course," said Captain Corless. "Your step-mother's a wonderful woman," said Sir Tony, "a regular lady bountiful, by Jove! You wouldn't believe how rich everybody round here is now, and all through her.
But not every fairy in Ireland can play them as Naggeneen did. They were tunes which everybody listening in that rath had known for hundreds of years.
"Hallelulia; watch that shoulder Hallelulia, my men; Hallelulia; get your wrists in! Must I tell you again?" "Everybody come in strong on the second verse," ordered Chilvers, and we obeyed as best we could, also on the third. They run like this: "I can't understand; understand it at all, Why I can't keep my eye on that little white ball."
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