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You don’t mean to tell me you’ve got the gall for that? And if you had, it would be a queer thing to propose to me. I would just like to point out to you, Wiltshire, that I’m a trader myself.” “I don’t think I would talk of gall if I was you,” said I. “Here’s about what it comes to, as well as I can make out: None of the people are to trade with me, and they’re all to trade with you.
‘And from all I see, I infer that you are likely to owe it to me.’ ‘I fear I am.’ ‘Though you have every disposition to pay me if you could?’ ‘Certainly.’ ‘Then,’ said Mr. Gabriel Parsons, ‘listen: here’s my proposition. You know my way of old. Accept it—yes or no—I will or I won’t. ‘My dear—’ ‘Stop a minute—on one condition; and that is, that you propose to Miss Lillerton at once.’ ‘At once!
"An’ ain’t you gonna tell?" "I don’t know. Would you?" "Go with m’ hat in hand an’ say, ’Well, Pa, here’s your wanderin’ boy’? No, I dunno as how I’d be makin’ that kinda play neither. Never was one to unspool th’ bedroll till I was sure o’ th’ brand I was ridin’ for. An’ you an’ me’s kinda hide-matched there. Glad you wised me up in time." "Maybe I didn’t," Drew admitted. "You mean that Shannon?
The grand thing is to get rid of dogged sulks and coltishness; of that wayward, swerving, hesitating gait, which says, “here’s my foot, and there’s my foot;” or, “there is a lion in the street, I cannot go forth.” This is the besetting sin of colts; and this it is which, on the turf, gives so great an advantage to a young horse to have another to make play, or cut out the running for him.
He was bending low and examining fresh signs when he saw me. “Howdy, kid, here’s some doin’s. Shall we foller him?” “Of course, Pete; what are we here for, the mountain air?” I answered. “No,” answered Pete, in his deep, low voice, “we’re here for game,” and off he started, but slowly and with great caution.
Worthington even now loudly demanding a pack of cards. “Here’s a gentleman never heard of six-handed euchre. If you’ve got a pack of cards, Mrs. Laferm, I guess I can show him quick enough that it can be done.” “Oh, I don’t doubt Mrs. Worthington’s ability to make any startling and pleasing revelations,” rejoined the planter good humoredly, and gallantly following Mrs.
Would you believe it, I sometimes look at you and feel ashamed, utterly ashamed of myself.... And how, and since when, I began to think about you like that, I can’t say, I don’t remember....” Fenya came in and put a tray with an uncorked bottle and three glasses of champagne on the table. “Here’s the champagne!” cried Rakitin. “You’re excited, Agrafena Alexandrovna, and not yourself.
‘None of your chaffing, young fellow,’ said the tall girl, ‘or I will give you what shall make you wipe your face; be civil, or you will rue it.’ ‘Well, perhaps I was a peg too high,’ said I; ‘I ask your pardon—here’s something a bit lower:— As I was jawing to the gav yeck divvus I met on the drom miro Rommany chi—’
I’m surprised, indeed, that you haven’t inquired about it before. It’s true I couldn’t get away anywhere. I’m sitting here where I can be seen. But here’s my money—count it—take it. That’s all, I think.” He turned it all out of his pockets; even the small change—two pieces of twenty copecks—he pulled out of his waistcoat pocket.
I did not look at it; and had it rolled quietly by me, I should not have remembered the fact of its appearance at all; but a tiny voice from within it roused me by exclaiming, ‘Mamma, mamma, here’s Mr. Markham!’ I did not hear the reply, but presently the same voice answered, ‘It is indeed, mamma—look for yourself.’
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