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"But women ought to like quiet, and excitement's sinful," returned Stephen hotly, becoming the Low Church missionary school-teacher at once. Talbot merely laughed and shrugged his shoulders, but his laugh was not friendly, and there was an angry light in his eyes. "What am I to do?" asked Stephen mechanically, still standing, the pallor and the horror of his face growing each minute.
Taking for a guide the first Indian whom I met, I made long excursions, less occupied in shooting than in admiring the magnificent scenery. I knew a little Spanish, and soon acquired a few Tagaloc words. Whether it was for excitement's sake, or from a vague desire of braving danger, I know not, but I was particularly fond of wandering in remote places, said to be frequented by robbers.
And when he darted through the gate, and set his horse straight along the western road, many of the people, neglecting all their business, as folk will for excitement's sake, followed him as they best could, agog to see the thing to its end. "The horses are weary," said the student to the princess, "we must let them rest; we are now in the shelter of the wood."
Reckon we'll find it down there." His face sobered. "It won't do me any good, Kid, to thank yuh." "Don't try," drawled The Kid. "I'm a soldier of misfohtune, and excitement's mah business. I'll leave yo' down heah, son. Go to yo' claim on the San Simon and make good fo' yo' fathah's sake. And good luck!" "Yuh won't come along?" Kid Wolf shook his head and smiled.
Three Sundays ago he turned around before he went out and said, 'Do you like apple-butter? but never waited to find out. It's the same programme every Sunday evening, and Jim Bardlock says Anna Belle's so worn out you wouldn't hardly know her for the blithe creature she was last year the excitement's be'n too much for her!"
Penhallow, this gold was stolen from one of the mines owned by our company," said the girl. "That's one reason I'm so anxious to find it. It will mean something to my brother." "Sure it will." "There ought to be a reward, oughtn't there? Not that I care about that; the excitement's enough for me." "Fond of excitement, are you?" "I'm afraid so. I'll have to get over that, I suppose."
In fact, the excitement's all over. I'm certainly very glad that you balked yesterday on buying that 'pig in a poke, my dear baronet. It seems," flapping the opened telegram against his other hand, "it seems, my very dear sir, that the American government, being confronted by a situation which bears more than a promise of war, has offered to buy the ideas which are embodied in the Skyrocket."
"Every little bit Perry looks at his watch and says: "'I got to be home, you know, Buck, at seven. "'All right, I'd say. 'Romp along and move. This here excitement's killing me. If I don't reform some, and loosen up the strain of this checkered dissipation I won't have a nerve left. "It might have been half-past six when commotions began to go on outside in the street.
He was regular in his attendance upon the meetings all through spring and summer, but his whole previous history made it difficult for him to fully appreciate the intensity and depth of the religious feeling that was everywhere throbbing through the community. "Don't see what the excitement's for," he said to Macdonald Bhain one night after meeting.
I suspect that in their secret hearts they would have been glad to have seen that whole embankment washed away, for the excitement's sake, and for the hope of catching the fish that would be left flopping at the bottom of the Reservoir when the waters were drained out, I think that these waters were brought somehow from Old River, but I am not sure how.
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