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Charley gave a shrill whoop of joy, and with a run he and Billy grabbed one another and hugged and danced. Then they drew off to shake hands; then Charley shook hands with Mr. Walker and Mr. Adams shook hands with Billy and his father; then Charley and Billy grinningly sized one another up. "You look like a sure-'nough miner," said Billy.
"Who told you to bring it?" ascertained Tai-yue grinningly. "I'm sorry to have given whoever it is the trouble; I'm obliged to her. But did she ever imagine that I would freeze to death?" "Tzu Chuan was afraid," replied Hsueeh Yen, "that you would, miss, feel cold, and she asked me to bring it over." Tai-yue took it over and held it in her lap.
"Why good afternoon!" grinned Barton above the extravagantly large and languorous bunch of pale lavender orchids that he clutched in his hand. "Good afternoon!" said Edgarton without enthusiasm. "Er orchids!" persisted Barton still grinningly. Across the unfriendly hunch of the older man's shoulder he caught a disquieting glimpse of a girl's unduly speculative eyes.
Brothers Hawkyard and Gimblet were both on the platform; Brother Hawkyard on his knees at the table, unmusically ready to pray; Brother Gimblet sitting against the wall, grinningly ready to preach. 'Let us offer up the sacrifice of prayer, my brothers and sisters and fellow-sinners. Yes; but it was I who was the sacrifice.
Several fellows, including Meshech, had been standing for a few moments in the door leading from the store into the living-room, grinningly observing the little drama which the reader has been following. As Desire broke away from Perez and rushed to her mother, Meshech exclaimed: "Wy in time did'n yer hole ontew her, Cap'n? I'd like ter seen her git away from me."
"Danny, I'm in the dumps," confessed Farley. "I hate to acknowledge it, but I've been fearfully tempted, for the last three days, to send in my resignation." "What's her name?" grinningly demanded Dalzell, who had bravely recovered from his own two meetings with Venus. "It isn't a girl -bosh!" jeered Farley. "There's only one girl in the world I'm interested in -and she's my kid sister."
Honest to gran' " It was Luck's elbow that stopped him by the simple expedient of cutting off his wind. Big Medicine gave a grunt and said no more. Thereafter, the Happy Family discovered that there was a certain continuity in the barbaric performances in which Luck had grinningly encouraged them to indulge themselves.
How could she get away from them when each year of her past marched slowly in front of her, paused for an instant that she might get a full view, and then passed grinningly back to the abyss of things gone, from over the shoulder tossing straight into her consciousness a jeering, deep sinking "You too?" Ernestine Stanley that was the name she read in one of her books open beside her.
"It's Flea, it's Flea Cronk!" he gasped. The girl advanced into the room. "What do you want here, Pappy Lon? Did you come to steal?" She saw Lem grimacing at her through the rays of the lantern. The scowman looked so evil, so awful, as he grinningly raised his steel hook, that her faith very nearly fled. Crabbe's heavy face was working with violent emotion.
He died disillusioned, and though nursed by some noble countrymen, his career seemed to illustrate that terrifying picture of his invention a skeleton lifts its gravestone and grinningly traces with bony finger in the dust the word Nada Nothing!
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