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"The Blue Ribbon's tied up! Not a wheel " "Will ye shut up?" Martin suddenly had remembered something. The mail test! Not forty-eight hours away! He blinked. One big hand smacked into the other. "The pound of flesh!" he bellowed. "Be gar! The pound of flesh!" "And what are ye talkin' " "Woman, shut up," said Martin Garrity. "'Tis me that's goin' to bed. See that I'm not disturbed. Not even for Mr.
"It was e'en judged sae," said Dinmont, "and I think this maks it likely; for they aye ken where the gangs o' ilk ither I are to be found, and they can gar news flee like a footba' through the country an they like. "And how comes that?" said Bertram.
As soon as the alligator perceived his formidable enemy, he thought of nothing but escape to the shore; he dropped his prey and began to climb, but he was too slow for the gar fish, who, with a single dart, closed upon it with extended jaws, and seized it by the middle of the body.
Only we are requested 'to hold the mirror up to nature, and to art too, I believe. We are to set these things right, you know. 'We who are we? said Katie. 'Why, the Daily Delight, said Charley. 'But I hope there's nothing false in patching and turning, said Mrs. Woodward; 'for if there be, I'm the falsest woman alive. To gar the auld claes look amaist as weel's the new
"What is very clear is that you are not the man for the place, and that the sooner you sell out if you only get a dime a dollar for what the business is worth the better it will be for you. What you have said is safe with me; but, by Gar! if I thought you were an informer " "No, no!" cried Morris piteously. "Well, let it rest at that.
French Louis became the focus of all eyes. He fingered his cards nervously for a space. Then, with a "By Gar! Ah got not one leetle beet hunch," he regretfully tossed his hand into the discards. The next moment the hundred and odd pairs of eyes shifted to Campbell. "I won't hump you, Jack," he said, contenting himself with calling the requisite two thousand.
Not till then did he avert his gaze, and turn again to the store. The great man of the company was still talking to the half-breed, and the other half-breed had risen from his seat and was staring into the store. He looked round as Stane approached him. "By gar," he said enthusiastically, "dat one very fine squaw-girl dere."
For a quarter of an hour he had been sitting with his face buried in his hands. Janet rose, went softly to him, and said in a whisper: "Is Gibbie waur aff, Robert, i' this watter upo' Glashgar, nor the dissiples i' the boat upo' yon loch o' Galilee, an' the Maister no come to them? Robert, my ain man! dinna gar the Maister say to you, O ye o' little faith! Wharfor did ye doobt?
Not to lift a hand, even to defend yourself!" said the marquis, vexed both with Malcolm and with himself. "Because I saw I was i' the wrang, my. lord. The quarrel was o' my ain makin': I hed no richt to lowse my temper an' be impident. Sae I didna daur defen' mysel'. An' I beg yer lordship's pardon. Faith! I s' gar ony man ken a differ there!"
The provost-marshal and his men tore us apart when last we met." "On which, friend, we vowed that we should settle the point when next we came together. Hast thy sword, I see, and the moon throws glimmer enough for such old night-birds as we. On guard, mon gar.! I have not heard clink of steel this month or more." "Out from the shadow then," said the other, drawing his sword.
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