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"Blowed if I'm going to wait no longer," says the giant, licking his coarse blue lips. "'Ere we've been bluffed off day arter day, and kep' dancin' round the Dandy's wench like a parcel o' dogs. The fever's aboard, and we've got all ready. What's the use o' waitin'? Orfice, or no orfice, I'm for bizness at once!
He thrust out a hardened hand to the judge. "Shake!" he said. "You're a heap better than you look." A thin ripple of laughter escaped Mahaffy, but the judge accepted Chills and Fever's proffered hand. He understood that here was a simple genuine soul. "Price, isn't it important for us to know why Mr. Yancy thinks the boy has been taken back to North Carolina?" said Mahaffy.
If I had my ch'ice of all the diseases in the calendar, that's the one I wouldn't take. Some on 'em you hev the comfort of knowin' you'll die of 'em if ye live long enough." He chuckled a little. "But this one, ye can't die and ye can't get well." "But he is going to get well?" The girl's eyes held him. "Yes, he'll be all right if he can set out in the wind a spell and the sun. The fever's broke.
"She's conscious!" exclaimed Minnie in a whisper as she closed the book, "and the fever's gone. You said she would be safe " and she stood with bated breath while the doctor bent over her. "Yes, the fever is gone," replied the doctor, "and she is safe for ever." For some time Minnie could not bear to go near Hollowmell, so strongly did its associations with her lost friend move her.
I says, I'll see for myself where this here paragon lays it all over the rest of her sect, but sho the closter I came to old man Rhett the mo' I heard of Polly!" "Dick, how you do run on," cried Polly protestingly, but Chills and Fever's knightly soul dwelt in its illusions, and the years had not made stale his romance. Also Polly was beaming on him with a wealth of affection.
"I am come to stay," repeated Olivia, firmly; but Deborah only shrugged her shoulders and walked over to the fireplace. "You won't need to stay long, Miss Olive," she said, in a choked voice at moments of excitement it was still "Miss Olive" with Deb "she is failing fast, dear soul; the fever's gone and left her as weak as a new-born babe.
"That of the doctor or that of the money-changer, I would say: the doctor, because he has to know what poor devils have got in their insides, and when the fever's due: but I hate them like the devil, for my part, because they're always ordering me on a diet of duck soup: and the money-changer's, because he's got to be able to see the silver through the copper plating.
Will you look at him? I think the fever's gone!" They went hand in hand like two girls, and they leaned above the bed where Whistling Dan lay smiling as he slept. On the floor Black Bart growled faintly, opened one eye on them, and then relapsed into slumber. There was no longer anything to guard against in that house.
One evening, as the crowd were quietly drinking and betting, Arkansas Bill suddenly opened the door of the store, and cried: "She's mendin'! The fever's broke 'sh-h!" "My treat, boys," said Sim Ripson, hurrying glasses and favorite bottles on the bar.
Nature instantly ebb'd again, the film returned to its place, the pulse fluttered stopp'd went on throbb'd stopp'd again moved stopp'd shall I go on? No. I am so impatient to return to my own story, that what remains of young Le Fever's, that is, from this turn of his fortune, to the time my uncle Toby recommended him for my preceptor, shall be told in a very few words in the next chapter.
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