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"I guess, if it wa'n't for me, he wouldn't have a much easier time. But don't you fret! It's all coming out right. That dinner ain't a thing for you to be uneasy about. It'll pass off perfectly easy and natural." Lapham did not keep his courageous mind quite to the end of the week that followed.
"I hear you declined to hand over a criminal who's been sheltering on your ranch? You'll get into trouble before you've finished." "Got the warrant?" Jim asked. The deputy produced it. Long Jim looked at it curiously and handed it back. "Guess the only other thing you want, then, is the man." "Better produce him quickly," the deputy advised. Jim turned away. "Can't do it. He's beat it."
"I guess I can stand it if she can. She came here and married me it isn't my funeral any more than it is hers. If she wants to be so darned mysterious about it, she can go plumb to New York!" There were a few decent traits in Ford Campbell; one was his respect for women, a respect which would not permit him to swear about this wife of his, however exasperating her behavior.
Duncan could not but guess the reason; the minister's attentions to Jessie Hamilton were growing more marked every day. Wherever he looked Duncan could see signs of trouble, which he was powerless to avert. The great day arrived when the sum of money was complete. At the next Endeavour meeting they would make all arrangements for purchasing the organ. Mr.
The wind blew me out, but it won't blow me back. I'll soon be out in the middle, I guess!" Though there had been enough wind to blow Tom, in the boat, away from shore, there was hardly any wind now, so the boy could not be blown back. And how to get him to shore was something that Bunny and Sue could not tell how to do, especially as there were no oars in the boat.
If there were any delay in the other matter, they might get news, from Malacca or some of their trading stations in Sumatra, that the ship has been here and, in that case, they would guess that we are thinking of establishing a trading station, and might send and make their own terms with the tumangong.
I guess we weren't ever meant to see these old tombs from inside, anyway. He. How so? She. For one thing, they believe so hard in being dead. Of course, their outlook on spiritual things wasn't as broad as ours. He. Well, there's no danger of our being led away by it. Did you buy that alleged scarab off the dragoman this morning? Going up the Nile is like running the gauntlet before Eternity.
"Guess thar's no occasion fer Sheriff Blagg ter hold an inquest, then," observed Rube, glancing round at the tin of honey. "Say, Kiddie, you gonner eat any o' that stuff after where it come from?" "Why not?" questioned Kiddie. "It's good, wholesome honey. We'll store it away in the teepee, where the bees an' flies can't get foolin' around it. That rabbit stew goin' along all right, d'ye think?
I should not wonder if he were to become crazy, like your grandfather." Grey did not reply to this, or tell her that he could guess in part what it was which had made his father grow old so fast, and blanched his hair to a snowy white, unusual to one of his years.
"Oh, very well, indeed. What do you think I have been doing to-day?" "Can't guess. There is one thing I know you have not been doing. I'll wager a sixpence you've not been blackberrying," and Mrs. Hunt laughed. The color flew into Marian's face. "No, indeed, I haven't been, and I shall not probably ever go again until I'm a grown lady, and can do as I please."
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