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Carara leaned languidly against the wall, took a match from his pocket, and dextrously struck it between the nails of his thumb and finger. He breathed his lungs full of smoke and exhaled it through his nose. "I would have spik to you biffore, but the Senor Fat is" he shrugged his shoulders "frighten' so bad he will not understan'. So I come back." "Who's scared?" said Glass, gruffly.
"I wouldn't ask to go back, brother, really and truly I wouldn't, but I'm so cold and mizzible I feel most like I'm going to be sick." Phil looked at her little bare red hands and tear-stained face, and said, gruffly, "Well, then, get on the wheelbarrow. You can sit on the music-box and hold Dago in your lap, and I'll wheel you a piece until you get rested."
I thought you'd got something sensible in your head." "So I have," said Joe gruffly, "on'y you're in such a hurry. I should say nothing to nobody, and go on just as if he warn't here." "Oh, Joe, dear, would you?" "Yes, that's what I should say. We could manage right enough, and if at last the Colonel should come with: `Hallo there!
"Who gave those orders?" she asked. "Mr. Wiggins," said the man, gruffly. "Is that man here now?" asked Edith. The man looked up suspiciously and in evident surprise, but his eyes fell again. "Mr. Wiggins? He is here; he lives here." "Then do you go at once," said Edith, loftily, "and say to that man that Miss Dalton is here."
"But you said " she faltered. "Yes. What'd I say?" "You said, 'where restitution's made by the family. That's what seemed to trouble papa so terribly, because because restitution couldn't " "Why, yes, it could. That's what I'm here to talk to you about." "I don't see " "I'm going to TELL you, ain't I?" he said, gruffly. "Just hold your horses a minute, please."
There was an instant of dead silence, then Toby uttered a little quivering laugh. "Hullo Captain!" she said "Hullo!" said Larpent, paused a moment, then abruptly took her by the chin, and, stooping, touched the wide brow with his lips. "All right?" he asked gruffly. Toby gave a little gasp; she seemed to be trembling. But in a second she laughed again, with more assurance.
Napoleon's part was, of course, performed by Pantaleone, and very faithfully he performed it: he folded his arms across his chest, pulled a cocked hat over his eyes, and spoke very gruffly and sternly, in French and heavens! what French!
He had not seen the children because they were kept closely in the house. They were turned out of their former home, and have absolutely nothing; no furniture even; only straw to sleep on. It was most pitiful." "Do not think of it any longer, Natalie," Coolidge insisted rather gruffly. "They are all right now.
"Well, we've made up our minds that he is," Katz went on, "and we've also made up our minds to watch your camp until the boy shows up again. I'll teach him to steal my badge of authority!" "When you catch him," Sandy requested, "just let us know. We want to see him ourselves. Will you do that?" "I guess you'll see him before we do," replied Katz, gruffly.
"I don't care! We can't sit here and freeze to death. Say, Mr. Conductor, can't we have any more heat? We're really almost frozen." "Can't help it, little ladies," responded the man, rather gruffly. "You'll find it worse when the coal gives out entirely." "Oh, mercy!" Bess exclaimed, when he had gone on. "What a bear!" But Nan looked suddenly disturbed.
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