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You don't owe me nothin', Miss Gray; and, besides, I'm gettin' a lot more than is comm' to me, 'cause that same gent friend of yours there says I'm goin' to horn in on the rewards, and I guess that's goin' some, for they got the whole outfit from Danglar down, and the stuff up in the ceiling there, too." She turned her head. The Adventurer was coming toward the cot. "Better?" he called cheerily.
The green tea table was bare: "I'd give you a cup of tea," Eleanor said, "but Maurice is going out to dinner, so I told Mary not to keep the fire up, just for me." "Maurice goin' out to dinner! Why, it's your weddin' day! Eleanor, if I have one virtue, it's candor: Maurice oughtn't to be out to dinner so much and on your anniversary, too!
"Then I don't blame you," exclaimed Tony vehemently. "You wouldn't ketch me stayin' in a house that was haunted by spirits. Where you goin' back out West?" "Perhaps so." She helped him to carry the trunk out to the wagon and strap it in; then she got in herself. As they drove in silence out of the yard, not a soul was in sight; nor was there any delay at the station to give rise to gossip.
In '98 I was in the Resiliant China station full commission. In Nineteen One, mark you, I was in the Carthusian, back in Auckland Bay again. Of course I went up to Mrs. B.'s with the rest of us to see how things were goin'. They were the same as ever. "That wasn't difficult?" I ventured. "Ah, but wait.
And smart too. A hundred and fifty dollars! One side of him is worth more than that!" "Likely it is," agreed the old man solemnly. "Seems to me I saw a piece in the paper 'bout a cannery where they was goin' to put up hoss-flesh!" "I admit he's had a lot of bad luck," persisted Slim, "but get Pharaoh warmed up once and he'll surprise you. Didn't you see how fast he was coming to-day?"
Hanna approached him and said, whilst her eyes filled with tears "We are in sorrow, Bryan; for we are goin', we doubt, to lose a friend that we all love as every one did that knew her." "Hanna, darling," said Kathleen, "this won't do. Poor girl! you are likely to make bad worse; and besides there may, after all, be no real danger.
I told you I'd feed you up good when I got me hotel to runnin'. And sure enough, in they come and we fed 'em. They was goin' to the Blue. They bunked in me hay that night. Next mornin' they acted kind of queer, sayin' nothin' except, 'So-long, when they lit out. And what do you think!
He turned with a flushed cheek and walked slowly towards the door. Her laugh stopped him. "Come! I reckon that squeezin' hands ain't no part of your contract with Sandy?" she said, glancing down at her own. "Well, so you're goin'?" "I only wished to talk seriously and prayerfully with you for a few moments, Safie, and then to see you no more."
ADAM came back from his work in the empty waggon that was why he had changed his clothes and was ready to set out to the Hall Farm when it still wanted a quarter to seven. "What's thee got thy Sunday cloose on for?" said Lisbeth complainingly, as he came downstairs. "Thee artna goin' to th' school i' thy best coat?" "No, Mother," said Adam, quietly.
After thumping the desk with his fist he announced that the gathering would "come to order right off, as there was consider'ble business to be done and it ought to be goin' ahead." He then proceeded to read the call for the meeting.
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