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"What sort of a fellow is he, Johnny?" asked Frank. "I don't admire him," replied Johnny, who, like Archie, never hesitated to speak his mind very freely. "From what I have seen of him, I should say that he is not a boy who is calculated to make friends. He talks and brags too much. He tries to use big words in conversation, and criticises every one around him most unmercifully.
"I know the right Johnny," he said. "Let me take you to him, Miss Jaques Eh, what?" Millicent affected to consider the proposal. She saw that Mrs. Vavasour was content. "It is very kind of you," she said, with her most charming smile. "Have we time to go there before lunch?" "Oh, loads." "I am walking toward the village. May I come with you?" asked Beryl Wragg.
The only way in which we could use the flour was to make it into johnny cakes, and eat them hot. Flour was selling at 3/ for half-a-pint, and the damaged flour soon found ready customers at fancy prices.
However, he bowed to our decision with his usual gracious courtesy. As hunting companion for Bagsby we appointed Missouri Jones, with the understanding that every two days that office was to have a new incumbent. Johnny, McNally, and I took charge of the dry wash, and the rest of the party tackled the bar. Of course we all except Bagsby were to share equally.
"Johnny never threw down a friend in his life and he never will. And say, Weary, if he wires, you collect the message and act accordingly. I'm going to have a decent supper, to-night!" He was riding a good horse and there was no reason why he should be late in arriving, especially if he kept the gait at which he left town.
But I knew that she was crying because Johnny Deutra was only a boy. Then she would change into a mood of wild gayety, whip the shawl around her, and dance for me, looking a thousand times more beautiful than anyone I had ever seen. And then she would shove me out of the room, leaving me feeling as though I had witnessed some strange rite at once beautiful and unholy.
What she has said to you now, she means, no doubt; but the minds of men and women are prone to change, especially when such changes are conducive to their own happiness." "At any rate I'll never forget your kindness, Lord De Guest." "And there is one other thing I want to say to you, Johnny. A man should never allow himself to be cast down by anything, not outwardly, to the eyes of other men."
I paid Ersten a hundred thousand. Grand total: two hundred and thirty thousand." "I don't understand your figures," protested Lofty. "It's a private code," laughed the leaseholder, "but that's the price." "I won't pay it," threatened the young merchant. "Build your tunnel then," returned Johnny but pleasantly, nevertheless. "Don't let's be nervous, Lofty.
During the siege there had been a good deal of friendly sparring between the soldiers of the two armies, on picket and where the lines were close together. All rebels were known as "Johnnies," all Union troops as "Yanks." Often "Johnny" would call: "Well, Yank, when are you coming into town?" The reply was sometimes: "We propose to celebrate the 4th of July there."
"Yesterday——" Drew tried to think back to how he had felt yesterday about Topham’s warning and how he himself had held the absurd belief that if Don Cazar was going to be in trouble, Drew himself wanted to be there. That was yesterday. But still he pointed his horse south—to the place where Hunt Rennie would return, bringing Johnny Shannon. The Kentuckian fell back on the old "wait and see."
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