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"He certainly is a wild one," said Dave, as he advanced and eyed the pony. "Oh, he's no worse than the others," answered Yates, smoothly, and then he rolled his eyes and winked at the other cowboys. Dave looked critically at the saddle and saw to it that it was properly buckled. Then he flung his cap to Roger. "Say, Dave, that pony looks half-crazy," said Phil. "You be careful."
If you can forgive me for having failed in courage last year, come back. What I have been to you before, I will be to you again, only this time we can love openly. Come back. "I am going mad!" said Prosper harshly, and indeed his face had a pinched, half-crazy look. The Jew waved his hand. "Oh, no, no, no. It is only that you are making a discovery.
Instead of a fairy maiden, sweet and demure, a grown-up child as he had vaguely pictured her, he had found a brazen, painted, slangy, gum-chewing flapper, a modern of moderns such as would have broken old Ike Brandon's heart as it doubtless had. The last of the old-timers were a bootlegging bartender and a half-crazy and wholly vicious prospector.
"The innocent shall suffer for the guilty." Her broken-hearted mother followed her to the grave, and it wuz on that very day, Mudd-Weakdew bein' shut up with doctors, that the little boy wuz stolen. The discharged workman, whose little boy had died of starvation, disappeared too. He wuz said to be half-crazy and had threatened vengeance on his old employer.
All these were wooden images; and the whole castellated, small, village-dwelling, with the inscriptions and the queer statuary, was probably the whim of some half-crazy person, who has now, no doubt, been long asleep in Bebbington churchyard. The bell of the old church was ringing as we went along, and many respectable-looking people and cleanly dressed children were moving towards the sound.
"And now am I nothing but a charmed dreamer, a half-crazy child, a sick brain feeding on crochets, an incorrigible, wrong-headed fellow? No, you admit that I have profited by your lessons; that a grain of wisdom has fallen into my brain, and that without having seen the bottom of things, I have at least lucid intervals.
"I refuse to stay here and be insulted by such a coward," she said, gathering her skirts as though she intended to take her departure instantly. "But it will be a fine story that Signor Fenshawe cables from Aden when he tells how the Governor of Massowah aided and abetted this half-crazy poltroon in onslaughts on defenseless women.
It was mighty fine for him that he could force his way past the dogs, Thomas, the other men, her half-crazy father, and through the locked door, and go there to try to make her see, on Sunday nights, and week days, every single chance he could invent, and he could think up more reasons for going to Pryors' than mother could for putting out an extra wash.
So when she died I sort o' slacked off 'till now it's 'een amost two year since I been in." "They say," observed Mr. Jenkins, "they've took the old man up." "I'm sorry for that," cried Tom. "To go to take up a kind o' half-crazy man for speaking in meetin'!" "Why," inquired the squire, "would you allow the man to go about disturbing the neighbors as he pleased?"
People had all along spoken of Fulton as a half-crazy dreamer and had called his boat "Fulton's Folly." "Of course, the thing will not move," said one scoffer. "That any man with common sense well knows," another replied. And yet they all stood watching for Fulton's signal to start the boat. The signal is given. A slight tremor of motion and the boat is still. "There! What did I say?" cried one.
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