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I'll think very little of you if you don't have him at your feet before you're done with him!" he went on, selecting something from among the papers in the pocket-book as he spoke. "There's not a girl in Ireland that wouldn't half hang herself for the chance you'll have! And there's not a girl in Cluhir but will be gibeing you if you lose it!"
"O, werry well," the mutinous scamp replied, moving towards the door; "ven you get ready to give me the chink, I'll be ready to vork for you, and not until then."
"Perhaps you was dramin' Hannah," said Tim, "more by token, it's time we was both doin' that same, so I'll bid you good-night." "Come again soon, Tim," said Hannah, preparing to close the door. A new plan of entrance flashed upon Ben. He quickly put on his shoes and stockings, unfolded the sheet and prepared to enact the part of a ghost once more, this time for the special benefit of Hannah.
Every visitor who leaves me, without a small present, however trifling it may be, considers himself insulted by me, or that I don't like him. Still at a loss to know what to do, whether to proceed to Soudan, or return and finish my tour of the Mediterranean. Sometimes I fancy I'll toss up, and then, checking my folly, I'll try the sortes sanctorum; a feather would turn the scale.
And they can bore their way out of any wood, or even metal, containers you try to keep them in. The termite seems destined to remain a gruesome, marvelous, possibly deadly mystery." He laughed abruptly, shrugged his shoulders, and started toward the car again. "When I get off on my subject, there's no telling when I'll stop.
'Well, certainly it is not pleasant, especially for ladies, admitted the Town Clerk. 'No, not pleasant and I've quite made up my mind it sha'n't go on. It is too absurd, really, that such a monstrous thing should be enforced; I'll get a private Act, next Session, and regulate those absurd conditions in the will.
"By Jove!" exclaimed Ancliffe. "Well, I'll block Durade's gang. Will you save the girl?" "Assuredly," answered the imperturbable Englishman. "Where shall I take her?" "Where CAN she be safe? The troop camp? No, too far, ... Aha! take her to Stanton. Tell Stanton the truth. Stanton will hide her. Then find Neale and King." Hough turned to Allie.
But do you call this 'ere fishing or shooting?" "There's another," cried Rodd excitedly; "but it's going the other way." "Got to know perhaps, sir, how we upset t'other. But we can spare him, for I'll be bound to say there's plenty more of them. Now I wonder what they are all for pretty creatures!"
"Legitimate, or illegitimate, a son's a son; don't bother me about distinction of that sort; why, now, there was old Weatherbit " "Order, order." "Let's hear the tale." "Very good, gentlemen, I'll go on, if I ain't to be interrupted; but I'll say this, that an illegitimate son is no son, in the eyes of the law; or at most he's an accident quite, and ain't what he is, and so can't inherit."
We make no distinction, however, between Union and Confederate sick; so, dear, you must be very careful not to express any sentiments." Celia laughed. "I won't express any sentiments, Honey-bee. I reckon I'd be drummed out of the Yankee army." Then, graver: "If I'm bitter I'll keep it to myse'f." "I know, dear. . . . And your sympathies would never lead you permit you to any indiscretion."
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