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'Why, your eyes'll be as red as ferrets when the gentleman comes, and he'll think we've been giving you an appetite by making you cry. I was near forgetting, Miss Hall, that we left a strange gentleman at the Park gate, who said he was going to call on you; he's going to take a bed here, because there's no inn nearer than the "Coach and Horses." 'Who can that be? said Miss Hall.
"I bet YOUR ole eyes'll open pretty far in about a minute or so!" "I bet they don't. It takes a good deal to get me excited, unless it's sumpthing mighty " "You'll see!" Sam promised. He opened an alley, gate and stepped into his own yard in a manner signalling caution though the exploit, thus far, certainly required none and Penrod began to be impressed and hopeful.
"Yes, I do," said Fly, quickly; "my eyes'll open out; but that's no matter, 'cause I don't want to go to sleep; I'd ravver not." They went up stairs, into a beautiful room, which aunt Madge had arranged for them with two beds, to suit a whim of Dotty's. "Now isn't this just splendid?" said Miss Dimple; "the carpet so soft your boots go in like feathers; and then such pictures!
If I kin on'y keep dat till I sees my gal, Cleopatrick, how her eyes'll stick out!" he said, scratching his white wool in delight, while his eyes glistened. "Say that name again, will you?" murmured Jerry, gripping the arm of Frank as if taken suddenly ill. "Cleopatrick. Dat's my darter, suh. She merried a right smart nigger, an' he's got a barber shop up dar.
'Tis a terrible coorious wall for sow-pigs, likewise for snails; an' I be allus a gwaine to have en repaired an' pinted, but yet somehow 'tedn' done. But your sharp eyes'll be a sight o' use wi' creepin' things. 'Tis a reg'lar Noah's Ark o' a wall, to be sure; not but what I lay theer's five pound worth o' stone fruit 'pon it most years if 'twas let bide." Joan enjoyed watching the peaches grow.
Rollo, she's never been to ride since that day; not once. And sometimes when she looks round sudden, her eyes'll shine till they frighten you! And Phoebe wiped her own eyes with the corner of her apron, and looked up for aid and comfort.
"Her name's Alice," he volunteered, with a sidelong fling of his carrot-tinted head. "Yes! she's my sister" he made a snatch at the pup whose speedy demise was threatened, from blood to the head "don't hold Porkey that way, Alice! his eyes'll drop out." But his juvenile confrere shrugged away from his clutch.
W'en she's a young one, Ma was all for tyin' back her ears and pinchin' her nose with a clo'espin to make it straight or so'thin'; but I says to Ma, w'en Helen 'Lizy lef' home, 'don't ye be one mite afeard, I says, 'but what them bright eyes'll outshine the peaked city gals. Guess they have, sort o', eh, Sis; f'om what John's been writin'?" "I don't know, Father."
Well, before you've got your lassoo coiled, the critter's eyes'll tell you just what sort o' tea-party you're goin' to have. Thar was a man once a hoss wrangler an' the easier a hoss broke, the more he'd mouch around an' hang his head, real melancholy and sad-eyed.
"Lord, but that girl's worth about a dozen of your ornery kind. She's a thoroughbred all through, she is." "Well, I ain't never seen nothin' like that, fer a fact, I ain't. I knowed them was good horses, but, well, I didn't know they was SADDLE horses." "They've more'n SADDLE horses, man, an' I'm bettin' a month's wages your eyes'll fair pop out inside five minutes. I know HER ways.
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