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"I'm in service with Mr Rogers," said Fancy, who as if in a moment had recovered her composure. "If you want to know why, sir, and won't chat about it, I don't mind tellin' you." "You make me curious, little maid: that I'll own." "'Tis simple enough, too," said she. "He's had a stroke, an' he's goin to hell." "Eh? . . . I don't see "

Mary and Marian's near enough alike, ain't they? And what's Lessing but Blessington docked goin' and comin'?" "Wait a second. If I understand you, George, you're trying to imply that Miss Lessing is identical with Marian Blessington." "You said somethin' then, all right."

The farmer meditated a bit as he closed the barn doors behind them, when he remarked, somewhat aggressively, "I hain't got no objections ter havin' er railroad on my farm, but I'll be darned ef I'm goin' ter git up at all hours of the night ter open and shet them doors fer yer train ter go through!"

Never did hear anything from a single critter after that slip bore down on 'em." "It might happen here on Thunder Mountain, too, couldn't it, Nick?" pursued Peg, as if the subject, with all it pictured to his active mind, held his interest gripped in such a fashion that he could not shake himself free. "Easiest thing goin', Peg.

Oh, my God, what's goin' to become of her? Poor Eva, poor Eva! Eighteen dollars a week; that's as much as Andrew ever earned. Oh, it was awful, it was awful!

"I wish I was," echoed the boy. "Well, your head-fillin' ain't the right kind for a boss, Alcestis, an' you'd better stick to dry land. You set right down here while I go back a piece an' git the pipe out o' my coat pocket. I guess nothin' ain't goin' to happen for a few minutes." The surmise about the horses, unlike most of Old Kennebec's, proved to be true.

"You think this fellow's got sense enough to keep a hotel?" "Yes, Mrs. Durgin, I do. I think he's got good ideas about a hotel." "And what's he goin' to do with his college education?" Jeff interposed. "You think that all the college graduates turn out lawyers and doctors and professors?

"Now that you're through with that robbery problem, there's no occasion for hustle, an' I guess Rube c'n make you as comfortable 's if you were stayin' in a high-class Cincinnati hotel." "Nothing would please me better'n to be your lordship's guest for a night," returned Isa. "I'm goin' ter stay. Th' experience of sleepin' on a island 'll be suthin' of a novelty.

Ed hesitated a moment, then he said: "I'm fearin' t' tell th' mother, but 'tis for some one t' do. 'Tis my duty t' do un an' I'll be goin'."

This ain't a party exactly, unless it's a testimony party, and if I don't set down my tongue will run all night, bein' loose-jointed and good for goin' all the time like most women's, and so I take my seat and turn the meetin' over to Mr. Milligan. He's Irish, and an Irishman can talk a cabbage into a rose any day.