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They reassured him countless times; but he could not believe them, and pried cunningly about the lazarette to see with his own eyes. It was noticed that the man was getting fat. He grew stouter with each day. The scientific men shook their heads and theorized. They limited the man at his meals, but still his girth increased and he swelled prodigiously under his shirt. The sailors grinned.
"I say, Jacob," said David in a loud whisper, just as the tin box was lifted out of the hole. Jacob looked up, and discerning his sweet-flavoured brother, nodded and grinned in the dim light in a way that made him seem to David like a triumphant demon. If he had been of an impetuous disposition, he would have snatched the pitchfork from the ground and impaled this fraternal demon.
I suppose I'll have to own up that if I didn't like you to ride with me I wouldn't let you do it." Casey grinned. Their mutual liking was genuine and so far unsentimental.
But when we held the light over the top of that awful precipice, and showed you that the ground was just about six inches below your toes as you dangled there, why, you made out that it was all a good joke, and that anyhow you'd given the rest of us a bad scare." Bumpus grinned, as though the recollection rather amused him now.
She didn't greet him as if he were a stranger, but behaved as if it were the usual thing for her to come thus every morning. But when he began telling her all about his voyage to Finmark, and the Gan-Finn, and the Draugboat he had come home in at night, he perceived that she only grinned and let him chatter.
This was just what the bold Coromantees wished for; they grinned and shouted their delight at serving under so great a warrior, and then set to work most gallantly, getting through more in the day than any ten Indians, and indeed than any two Englishmen.
They reached a village at length, where he told them they must stop. "Is there an inn to which we can go?" asked Mr Collinson. The negro grinned. "No, monsieur," he answered; "but quarters will be assigned to you." After being kept waiting for some time, the sergeant, who had gone away, returned, and told them to follow.
"My good man," she said sharply. "I happen to be the proprietor of North Kent wood." "Then you'd better beat it." The guardian grinned. "There's a dame been here with one of them fellers from the town office." "Where are they now?" questioned Genevieve sharply. "Went up factory way. But if you ain't one of them lady nosies, you'd better beat it, I tell you." Genevieve looked up the street.
"You can let James alone now, Miss Martin," he said, and he winked again, rubbed his hands, and grinned all over his expansive face. "Let James alone!" I said. "Yes; don't go upsetting the lad he's not used to young ladies like you. You leave James to himself. James will do very well. I have a little surprise for James."
Racey Dawson, having successfully sung the first verse, rested both elbows on the bar and grinned at the bartender. That worthy grinned back, and, knowing Mr. Dawson, slid the bottle along the bar. "Have one yoreself, Bill," Mr. Dawson nodded to the bartender. "Whu where's Swing? Oh, yeah." Mr.
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