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Dawn was breaking in the sky when they came out of the swamp, and the first flush of the sun was lighting up the east when Breault headed his improvised craft for the sandbar upon which Nada and McKay had rested many hours before. Breault was tired, but his eyes lighted up when he saw the footprints in the sand, and he chuckled almost good humoredly. As a matter of fact he was in a good humor.
Don't be so damn touchy. Eneyboddy in the shack?" "No; only the woman, asleep on a stool." "Whar's Tim gone to?" "I reckon he don't even know hisself; he's sure sum drunk." Rale chuckled, patting the side of the horse next him. "Whole caboodle workin' like a charm," he said, good humoredly.
This was good humoredly added as the final swing was given to the dance, which brought the twins holding Dolly aloft in their arms laughing and panting on the settee. "But tell us, father, is he coming home for good? He don't say so in the letter," asked Dolly, and all leaned forward to hear his answer. "Coming home for good?" mused David.
"But if you must have it in plain words: I shall dress up as a boy to go with you; to-morrow when we set out you will see, you will take me for my own brother." "Your own brother! With a little face like yours! Then the most impossible things will become possible," cried Rustem laughing, and he looked down good humoredly at the little girl.
Delamayn," he said, "you were invited here in the character of a gentleman, and you are a guest in a lady's house." "No! no!" said the surgeon, good humoredly. "Mr. Delamayn is using a strong argument, Sir Patrick and that is all.
"Well, since you are here," he remarked good humoredly, "you must help me to induce Mr. Brown to come back to the Court. So far, we have been wretched neighbors. We shall insist upon his dining with us, just to show that there's no ill-feeling," he added, smiling. "Now, no excuses." "Thank you, but I never go out," Mr. Brown answered. "I have not even any clothes here. So " "Please come, Mr.
Milly smiled upon the interested stranger, good humoredly, as she always smiled. She was feeling very tired after her day's exertions, but happily content with her first efforts to realize her ambition, to have "some place for herself." What she meant by having a place for herself in the world she did not yet understand of course. Nor what she could do with it, having achieved it.
"Now you polish up those buckles real good, won't you, 'Zekiel? I will say for Fanshaw, you could most see your face in the harness always." The young fellow addressed rubbed away at the nickel plating good humoredly, although he had heard enough exhortations in the last twenty-four hours to chafe somewhat the spirit of youth.
"I have a five for your crew," he said, good humoredly, "if we make a neat landing alongside." It was eleven o'clock when the stout tug ran alongside the 'Mesopotamia. The old ex-liner was an "occasional" now, and all ready to depart for Stettin. On Braun's hail, a burly chief steward descended the companionway, with a half dozen assistants.
"I am Lieutenant Jefferson Davis, of General Atcheson's staff, and may have a good word to say regarding your efficiency some time." The other wiped his clay-bespattered fingers on his dingy Jean pants, and gripped the offered hand, appearing homelier than ever because of a smear of blood on one cheek. "Thank ye, sir," he answered good humoredly.
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