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"You're not hurt, I hope?" asked Mr Meldrum, who with Frank had at once hurried to the American's side and taken hold of his hand to raise him up. "No, I guess not," replied Mr Lathrope slowly, getting up on to his feet and proceeding to feel himself carefully all over. "No, I ain't hurt; but I feels flummuxed by the durned old shootin'-iron.
But there's things that takes the finest kind o' wit to see through, and you can't make a bead-purse out of a sow's-ear, neither jerk Time by the forelock, when there a'n't a hair, as you can see, to hang on to. I dunno as you'll rightly take my meanin'; but never mind, all the same, I'm flummuxed, and it's the longest and hardest flummux o' my life!"
When they met, she communicated the result to Gilbert in this wise: "'T a'n't agreeable for a body to allow they're flummuxed, but if I a'n't, this time, I'm mighty near onto it. It's like lookin' for a set o' buttons that'll match, in a box full o' tail-ends o' things.
"`And why then, sez he, argumentifying on to me like a shot, `and why then shouldn't there be such a thing as the sea sarpint? "This flummuxed me a bit, for I couldn't find an answer handy, so I axed him another question to get out of my quandary. "`But why, Gil, did you say you had seed a ghost, when it was a sarpint? "This time he was bothered for a moment.
You see, if I had waltzed over the side of that ship, and cavoorted in, and flummuxed round and finally flopped to the bottom, that other man would have jumped nateral-like and saved her; and ez he was going to marry her anyway, I don't exactly see where I'D hev been represented in the transaction.
I left Penang early this morning, and must go on at once." "Well, if I ain't just about flummuxed! D'you mean to say you've come pretty near two thousand five hundred miles to-day?" "Yes; I'll tell you in a word all about it." His host, whose name was Martin, listened in mute amazement as Smith briefly related the occasion of his long journey. "Why, man," exclaimed Mr.
This darkness and light, racket and hush, mud flats and moss on the masts, all in one evening, has got me flummuxed. But I've got one little thought myself," he added dreamily. "Ye Gods!" ejaculated Barry sarcastically. "What?" "Oh, just whether Leyden knows Vandersee's here or not." "I suppose so. The Mission folks and Mrs. Goring know it, don't they?
You jist wait till yer gets to sea and ain't a-plying bark'ards and forruds in Porchmouth 'arbour. My stars, won't yer be flummuxed then." "Don't you believe it," I retorted. "I've been to sea, I tell you, before to-day." "Oh aye, that's right enuff; but there's goin' to sea, an' goin' to sea. Lor! Yer 'aven't ever bin out in the Martin brig, have yer, now?" "No, of course not," I replied.
"I tell you I know I done it!" argued one. "I ketched him between the sights, jest's fair as could be." "G'wan, he flummuxed jest's I cut loose!" "Well, boys," called the leader, impatiently, "get along!" A man came forward, and silently threw a loop about Severne's neck. In Wyoming they hang horse-thieves. Severne realised this, and told them all about everything.
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