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'I'm very sorry, ma'am, said Francie. 'I humbly beg the Lord's pardon, and yours, for my wickedness. 'H'm, grunted the lady. 'Did ye see nobody else? 'No, ma'am, said Francie, with the face of an angel, 'except Jock Crozer, that gied me the billet. 'Jock Crozer! cried the lady. 'I'll Crozer them! Crozers indeed! What next? Are we to repose the lives of a suffering remnant in Crozers?
He grunted and squealed, and tried to catch the scent of him in the air. He ran up the creek a distance, and back again. Ahtik counted as nothing now. Miki was gone. A quarter of a mile away Miki had heard the clamour of the crows. But he was in no humour to turn back, even had he guessed that Neewa was in need of his help.
There was an exclamation from the dark-eyed man. "Just what I was telling Jack this morning," he chortled. "Buy a farm, for farming purposes only, from some old lady. Pay her a good price, but get your land in the oil section. Old lady happy, we strike oil, sell out to big company, everybody happy. Simple, after all. Good schemes always are." Jack Fluss grunted derisively.
They were, briefly, the immediate transfer of Muriel Gay to the position of leading woman in a new company which was being sent to Santa Barbara to make light comedy-dramas. Robert Grant Burns grunted when he read that, though it was a step up the ladder for Muriel which she would be glad to take.
A glimpse, no more. "That'll help some," Barlow grunted. "Quick work. But they come blame near cuttin' us down, beltin' along at ten knots when you can't see forty feet ahead." An empty beach greeted them at Tumbling Creek. Reluctantly Stella bade Barlow turn back.
"But all that's stopped now," he lamented. "A sailor's a gentleman these days. You can't raise your voice or your hand to them." At this moment he was addressed from the poop-rail above by the second mate, a medium-sized, heavily built, clean-shaven, blond man. "The tug's in sight with the crew, sir," he announced. The mate grunted an acknowledgment, then added, "Come on down, Mr.
"Of course he is," she returned with some asperity. "Why should he get married with such a home as he's got? Fifteen years I've kept house for Mr. Evringham. I don't believe but what he'd say that in all that time he's never found his beef overdone or a button off his shirts." "Humph!" grunted Ezekiel. "He looks as if he wouldn't mind hanging you to the nearest tree if he did.
"At any risk, I am going to the Tuileries to-night!" My Iroquois grunted. A glow spread all over his copper face and head. If I had told him I was going to an enemy's central camp fire to shake a club in the face of the biggest chief, he could not have thought more of my daring or less of my common sense. "You will never come out." "If I don't, Skenedonk, go without me."
The value of them varies greatly from time to time. A very little thing serves to depreciate their price, and an equally small thing will send it up again." Ezra Girdlestone grunted to show that he followed his father's remarks. "I did some business in diamonds myself when I was a younger man, and so I had an opportunity of observing their fluctuations in the market.
The Tin Owl gave a hoot of delight when he saw the Red Wagon draw up before Jinjur's house, and the Brown Bear grunted and growled with glee and trotted toward Ozma as fast as he could wobble. As for the Canary, it flew swiftly to Dorothy's shoulder and perched there, saying in her ear: "Thank goodness you have come to our rescue!" "But who are you?" asked Dorothy
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