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"Yes'm," he muttered, with a view to ending a silence that had become intolerable. Her eyes danced to the accompaniment of her thoughts, but in no way did she betray the slightest perturbation. "I ain't done nothin'; hones' to God, I ain't!" he protested brokenly. "I saw you through the window when you entered this room and I was watching while you read that note," said his captor.
Then listen; I will be briefly. It is that I am well known to be all, entire' hones'. Gamblist? Ah, yes; true and mos profitable; but fair, always fair; every one say that. Is it not so? Think of it. And is there never a w'isper come to M. le Duc that not all people belief him to play always hones'? Ha, ha!
"Yes, that's so." "Why, Billy, some day you might be manager!" "Say, that would be great, wouldn't it! But hones', Nell, do you think I might have a chance to land the assistant's job?" "I certainly do." "Oh, Nelly gee! you make me oh, learn to bank on myself " He kissed her for the second time in his life. "Mr. Guilfogle," stated Mr.
'Tain't gamblin', o' co'se; I wouldn't gamble fu nothin', dough my ol' Mastah did ust to say dat a honest gamblah was ez good ez a hones' preachah an' mos' nigh ez skace. "Look out dah, man, dey's off, dat nasty bay maih wid de white feet leadin' right fu'm 'de pos'. I knowed it! I knowed it! I had my eye on huh all de time. Oh, Jim, Jim, why didn't you git in bettah, way back dah fouf?
She talk beautiful', and never one word smut. Hones', true. Johnny, my son, read 'Three Weeks' that time, and he speak the baroness, 'You jus' like that woman in the book. She have baby here and take with her to Paris. She want that baby jus' like 'Three Weeks. Oh, but she live high! She have her own servants, get everything in market, bring peacocks and pheasants and turkeys from America.
Not, indeed, that life for which so many live the life led for self, and having for its principle, if not its only end, the gratification of the desires of self; but an altogether higher life a life devoted to telling that which her keen instinct knew was truth, and, however imperfectly, painting with the pigment of her noble art those visions of beauty which sometimes seemed to rest upon her soul like shadows from the heaven of our hones.
It don't lie when it tells you the good are happy, an' the hones' are elevated an' the mem'ry of the just shall not perish, because them things we see come so.
I couldn’t see the figures any mo’, my head swum and the pencil mos’ fell out o’ my han’. I neva felt anything like it: hones’, Miss Melicent, I thought I was goin’ to faint fur a minute.”
They closed behind him. Three minutes later he emerged, shaking his head. "There is no one here," he announced. Willie Case was crestfallen. "But they must be," he pleaded. "They must be. I saw 'em here just a leetle while back." Burton turned and eyed the boy sternly. Willie quailed. "I seen 'em," he cried. "Hones' I seen 'em. They was here just a few minutes ago.
"Ye can't make a woman hones' for ye ain't hones' yerself." Without a sound Ben rose from the tracks, reached for a stone and whirled it through the fence at Tessibel. The stone missed her, but struck the dog. Trembling with rage, Pete lifted his great body with a low, vicious growl. Tessibel sprang from the ground, whilst another stone hurtled through the air, catching her curls in its flight.
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