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I ain't going to run the Judge against no such proposition like that." Of course the poor chap was speaking his own backwoods metaphor, as I am quite sure he would have been incapable of mutilating Belknap-Jackson, or even of imprisoning him in a goods van of beef. I mean to say, it was merely his way of speaking and was not to be taken at all literally.
They can probate that until they're black in the face, but nobody's going to find out any more than we want them to." "Sounds all right so far, but don't you have to take a trust agreement like that into Court, too?" "Sooner or later, yes.
"You're a thief!" screamed Paul. "You shall go to jail for this." "Shall I?" asked Ben, his face darkening and his tone full of menace. "Who is going to send me there?" "I am," answered Paul. "I'll have you arrested." "Look here, Uncle Paul," said Ben, confining the old man's arms to his side, "it's time we had a little talk together. You'd better not do as you say." "You're a thief!
There was the corner grocer, too, with whom I pretended to be staunch friends. "I'm going to see the grocer," I would say, when I heard Sam's cautious whistle in front of the house and so presently I would join the gang.
He did not approve of this reserve in Thomas, just after he had confided all that story to him too. "Well, I hardly know," said Thomas slowly. "I am, and I ain't." A dull sick feeling of bitter disappointment filling his heart as he saw that beyond the two men who had sprung out at once, no one else was appearing. "I was going to tell 'ee about it, only the train corned in.
At this, two of the doctors picked up their instruments and left. The one remaining said to me, "What are you going to do?" I said, "I am going to Hereford to preach tonight, after which I'll come back and take the young man with me on the train to Minneapolis." "But," he said, "gangrene may set in." I told him that I would pray God Almighty to keep that away.
It sent me scuttling back among the hay-stacks, going over the ground there, foot by foot and calling as I went, until my voice had an eerie sound in the cold air that took on more and more of a razor-edge as the sun and the last of its warmth went over the rim of the world. It seemed an empty world, a plain of ugly desolation, unfriendly and pitiless in its vastness.
"My cousins know everything now. How can we meet before them!" "I'm not going away without an answer, and we can't remain here without meeting. It will be less strange if we let everything take its course." "Well." "Thanks." He looked strangely humbled, but even more bewildered than humbled. She listened while he descended the steps, unbolted the street door, and closed it behind him.
And to penetrate into the forest following in the creature's wake, would it not be like going to seek the ghastly end from which I had just so narrowly escaped, thanks perhaps to the tiger's defective sense of smell? And yet, after having carefully pondered which course to take I was obliged to make my decision in favour of the one that seemed the most insensate of the three.
"It would be lots of fun for the whole club to go to New York some day together." "I'm so glad Patty is going to stay with us, I don't care what we do," said Ethel Holmes, who was drawing pictures on Patty's white shirt-waist cuffs as a mark of affection.
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