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Them strung-out, trained-to-a-hair, high-falutin girls never did fetch me. I like 'em round, and soft, and innocent. What's her name, sonny?" "Sarah." "Sairy! Bud, I don't believe that. Sairy! I never did cotton to Sairy. Yer pullin' my leg, ye young scallywag. The nerve! No ye don't." Jeff had stretched out a long, lean arm, and seized the boy by the shoulder in a grasp which tightened cruelly.
All he knew was he wanted very badly Melanctha should be there beside him, and he wanted very badly, too, always to throw her from him. What was it really that Melanctha wanted with him? What was it really, he, Jeff Campbell, wanted she should give him? "I certainly did think now," Jeff Campbell groaned inside him, "I certainly did think now I really was knowing all right, what I wanted.
What d'ye suppose Jeff meant to do?" asked the other, as he fell in at the side of his chum when Maurice started off. "Rob us, that's clear. He saw that money, all right, when he peeked in at the window of the shanty-boat, and was wild to get it.
And it happened according to her desire. There, at the gate was Jeff, handsomer, according to a woman's jealous eye, than she had ever seen him, fresh-coloured, his face set in a determination that was not feigned, hard, fit for any muscular task more than the average man might do. Esther was looking her prettiest.
'Hurrah for Jeff Davis! 'Shoot them! 'Kill them! 'Hang them! I locked the door of the store on the outside and ran to the front of the mob, bawling with the rest, 'Hurrah for Jeff Davis! About every third man had a weapon out.
But until the doctor's satisfied "She's coming out all right!" gave them leave, neither dared draw a good breath for himself. Just was wondering what he and Jeff were to say, but his brother was heaping reproaches upon himself, and sternly holding Jeff Birch responsible for the whole unfortunate affair.
From the first the most imprudent carelessness had been shown, and they could not understand how Jeff ever allowed the valuable store to remain unguarded.
A wiser than Jeff would have assented to this. Jeff rose hastily and walked a few paces. "I'm most well," he declared irritably. "Then what ails you?" Jeff sat down again, smiling nervously. "Well, Miss Sadie, I was thinking of the cruellest thing in this cruel world." "My! What's that?" "Why do the innocent suffer for the sins o' the guilty?" "You do fly the track."
Jeff he was getting as bad as they were solemnly replied that, on the contrary, the poorer they were, the more children they had. That too, he explained, was a law of nature: "Reproduction is in inverse proportion to individuation." "These 'laws of nature," Zava gently asked, "are they all the laws you have?" "I should say not!" protested Terry.
His Army was twice as large as that of Curtis, and the fact that it was divided enabled Curtis to whip his Army in detail, so that Van Dorn's Army was virtually whipped before Curtis got his entire force into the field, Siegel only coming into battle after Van Dorn's Arkansas force had left for the South, Jeff C. Davis's Division having killed its two Division commanders, and Van Dorn had given Price orders to get out the best way he could, which forced him to retreat to the east towards White River.
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