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I was about to take the chair that the young man had left vacant when Kinney objected. "He was very much interested in our conversation," Kinney said, "and he may return." I had not noticed any eagerness on the part of the young man to talk to Kinney or to listen to him, but I did not sit down. "I should not be surprised a bit," said Kinney, "if that young man is no end of a swell.
"Y'u can't have him, Steve. We took him and he's got to hang." The lieutenant of rangers shook his dark curly head. "Won't do, Duffield. Won't do at all," he said decisively. "You'd ought to know law's on top in Texas these days." Tom Long shouldered his way to the front. "Law! Where was the law when this ruffian Kinney shot down my poor brother Dave?
A brooding warmth filled the place, and the wood made a pleasant crackling as it took fire. "Here's my desk," said Kinney, pointing to a barrel that supported a broad, smooth board-top. "This is where I compose my favorite works." He turned round, and cut out of a mighty mass of dough in a tin trough a portion, which he threw down on his table and attacked with a rolling-pin. "That means pie, Mr.
It seemed as if he had lost something sweet, lost it irrecoverably. He noticed Ed Kinney and Bill Young were the last to come out, just before the machine started up again after dinner, and he saw them pause outside the threshold and laugh back at Agnes standing in the doorway. Why couldn't she keep those fellows at a distance, not go out of her way to bandy jokes with them?
"Your real face the one I used to know it's just underneath the one you're masquerading in to-night. You ought to have changed it more if you wanted a disguise." "Twenty years!" said Mr. Kinney. "It makes some difference in faces, but more in behaviour!" "It does so!" his friend agreed with explosive emphasis. "My own behaviour began to be different about that long ago quite suddenly."
He didn't seem to be interested in my conversation, so I thought I'd liven it up a bit by saying I was a friend of Lord Ivy's. And you happened to pass, and I happened to remember Mrs. Shaw saying you looked like a British peer, so I said: 'That is my friend Lord Ivy. I said I was your secretary, and he seemed greatly interested, and " Kinney added dismally, "I talked too much.
Then in a second more, she was again the humble, affectionate Draxy, whom all the women and all the little children knew and loved; looking round on them with an appealing expression, she said, "Dear friends, I hope I have not done wrong in standing up here and taking it upon me to read such solemn words. I felt that Mr. Kinney would like to speak to you once more through me."
Bartley followed him with his pencil, jotting down points, striking in sub-head lines, and now and then interrupting him with cries of "Good!" "Capital!" "It's a perfect mine, it's a mint! By Jove!" he exclaimed, "I'll make six columns of this! I'll offer it to one of the magazines, and it'll come out illustrated! Go on, Kinney." "Hark!" said Kinney, craning his neck forward to listen.
And before Kinney severed his connection with the Sanusian, she had begun the task of mixing up a fresh combination of these ingredients in a new trough. In the midst of this she heard a sound; and turning about, waved a hand excitedly toward a distant figure on the far side of a nearby field. Meanwhile Smith had managed to get in touch with Dulnop.
John Larlee was one of the old time doctors, a man highly respected whose descendants now are chiefly residents of Carleton county. Israel Kinney was probably the first blacksmith in the community. Among those not included in the original band of settlers at Maugerville, but who arrived there shortly afterwards, was Moses Coburn, who came from Newburyport to St.
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