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"Hum," said he, "we must use that circumstance. I'll get it into the journals. Heroic captain. Went down with the ship. Who can suspect Hudson in the teeth of such a fact? Now pray go on, my good Wylie. The boats!" "Well, sir, I had the surgeon, and ten men, and the lady's maid, on board the long-boat; and there was the parson, the sick lady, and five sailors aboard the cutter.
'Let me lift you in, my little hero, said Rumpty-Dudget, taking Hector round the waist with his little bony hands; 'and I'll warrant you won't come back in a hurry. Now, then jump!
'We'll have you put to rights here, said the old gentleman, 'and then I'll introduce you to the people in the parlour. Emma, bring out the cherry brandy; now, Jane, a needle and thread here; towels and water, Mary. Come, girls, bustle about.
"If you asked the Shageluks, they'd say forty." "You've been some time in this part of the world, I understand," said the Colonel. "Twelve years." "Without going home?" "Been home twice. Only stayed a month. Couldn't stand it." "I'll give you twenty-two dollars for that coat," said Mac. "I've only got that one, and as I think I said " "I'll give you twenty-four." "It's an order, you see. Rainey "
"Tell me your names," added Hetty, looking up at him artlessly, "and, maybe, I'll tell you your character." "There is some truth in that, I'll not deny, though it often fails. Men are deceived in other men's characters, and frequently give 'em names they by no means desarve.
He seemed furious at their having moved, and with whip and rein punished them brutally, even beating them about the head. Our gentleman saw it all, and stepping quickly across the street, said in a decided voice: "If you don't stop that directly, I'll have you arrested for leaving your horses, and for brutal conduct."
One day I'll hand that feller over to you and when you've doped him plenty you'll have paid me." He rose leisurely from his comfortable chair. "May I take another of your good cigarettes?" he went on, with a half smile in his cold eyes. "You see, I won't get another, seeing I'm quitting you."
"Substantial!" said the doctor; "you look as substantial a personage as your old friend the 'faire Una, just about. Well prepare yourself, gentle Saxon, to ride home with me the day after to-morrow. I'll try a little humanizing regimen with you." "I don't think that is possible, uncle Orrin," said Fleda gently.
"She did," put in Cora. "She told me so; but her going away had nothing to do with it. A relative was taken suddenly ill, and she had to leave. She wrote me something about the robbery excuse me, I'll not call it a robbery now but Mary thought it was, and she imagined both Sid and Ida were guilty." "I can't blame her much," murmured Ida unhappily.
After serving through the Civil War he fought Indians, and had lived an otherwise wild life. But Pan was only the keener to see and know Old Uncle Ike. He went boldly to make his acquaintance. He found a sad-faced, gray old man, sitting alone. Pan said bravely: "Uncle, I'm Pan Smith, your brother Bill's boy, an' I've come to see you because I'm sure I'll like you."
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