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"And a nice house it is," said Bill, "for rooms to belong to. I wonder," he reflected, cocking his eye at the windows above; "I wonder how the police manage to keep an eye on the next house without keepin' an eye on yours but they know." He turned towards the street end of the alley and gave a low whistle.
"I low t' taste your pies to-morrow if it don't rain," Silas answered her without looking up from the bite he was severing with the knife upon which it was to be conveyed to his mouth. Luther Hansen's laugh rang out heartily. "Don't," he said, winking at Sadie. "She'll be keepin' me out of th' field t' fire th' oven." The sting of the criticism was drawn by Luther's merry acceptation of it.
"We wishes you well, Jack, and we wishes Miss Rose well, and Mr. Mulford well, but we can't, no how, run ath'art hawse, as Josh says. Dat is my judgment, too." "Well, if your minds are made up to this, my darkies, I s'pose there'll be no changing them," said Jack. "At all ewents you'll lend us a hand, by answering any hail that may come from aft, in my watch, and in keepin' our secret.
The villain, I think, bears a charmed life!" "Niver you fear, sor," put in Garry, in answer to this remark. "His father, ould Nick, is keepin' him for somethin' warm whin I git hould of him. Faith, sor, you can bet your boots on that, sure!" Colonel Vereker smiled sadly at the impulsive Irishman's remark.
You're keepin' all the black prophecies to yourself. Why don't you rise up, man alive," she added, turning to him, "and let her hear how much of the divil's lingo you can give? It's hard, if you can't prophesy as much evil as she can.
What he saw made him slide hastily to the bottom again. "They've clumb down and straddled their ponies," he announced grimly. "An' about a dozen is comin' down this way, keepin' under cover all they kin. I calc'late mebby we better crawl our bosses 'n' do some ridin' ourselves, boys." And he added grimly, "They ain't in good shootin' distance yit, 'n' they dassent show theirselves neither.
The other reason is that I'm goin' to see that you get a square deal from them guys. "An' you won't get a square deal ridin' out alone, like this especially when you head toward Sunset Trail, where Deveny an' his gang hang out. An' I'm settin' down hard on you ridin' that way. I'm keepin' you from runnin' any chances." Silently Barbara had watched Harlan's face while he had been talking.
"It wouldn't be right if I took sick an' died of this sickness, after keepin' myself clean on account of that girl.... It wouldn't be right," the man muttered again to Fuselli. Fuselli was picturing himself lying in his bunk with a swollen neck, while his arms and legs stiffened, stiffened.
"You have dinner ready very early, Delia," Janice said, as the big woman lumbered into the kitchen. "Didn't you just say your paw had come?" demanded Delia in her squeaky voice. "Yes. But you have everything ready at five o'clock instead of at six." "Oh, yes. I don't never believe in keepin' folks waitin' for their victuals," said Delia, tossing her head.
Arrah, what's the rason that the gauger never looks next or near his place, an' it's well known that he sells poteen widout a license, though he goes past his door wanst a week?" "What the h is keepin' him at all?" inquired one of Dolan's sons.
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