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"We'll drink to Barney's bad health," said Darragh, raising his glass. "I saw him half an hour gone. He looked like a dead man. Cap'n Jim Skelly o' the John Quinn piloted Gypsum Prince inter her dock last night. No one ever handled her afore but Cap'n Barney. An' the Kentigern from Liverpool is due to-night. Skelly's layin' fur her too; an' he'll git her.
"Well, now I've come to the beginnin' o' my story." Mattie took that last delicious sip of tea at the bottom of the cup. "He's layin' in bed, an' Adam's settin' by the stove; an' I wanted to know if you wouldn't run in, long towards noon, an' warm up suthin' for 'em." "Yes, indeed," said Mary Dunbar. "I'll be there."
But that don't account for the way she come at me, and the way she got me every circle she made. That's human. It's dog-gone human! I've cussed her a lot, and I've done things to her like that syrup I poured into her and dog-gone her, she's been layin' low and watchin' her chance all this while.
"I've seen this thing layin' in the barn chamber in a thousand pieces all summer!" explained Mr. Popham radiantly. "It wan't none o' my business if the family throwed it away thinkin' it wan't no more good.
She'd left the door open, and the smell of dinner that blew through it was tantalizin'. Abbie was dressed in her Sunday togs and her hair was frizzed till she couldn't wrinkle her forehead. If the truth was known, I cal'late she'd seen Kenelm go past her house on the way downtown and was layin' for him when he come back, but she acted dreadful surprised. "'Why, Mr.
Now I can't exactly believe that if I fell down and hurt my head on a stun I cannot believe as I am a layin' there, that I hain't fell, and there hain't no stun and while I am a groanin' and a bathin' the achin' bruise in anarky and wormwood, I can't believe that there hain't no such thing as pain, nor never wuz. No, I can't believe this with the present light I have got on the subject.
If you'd seen that great big piled-up heap of bills layin' right there on the table in our settin' room where Mr. Bangs put 'em, I guess you'd have said 'dreams' and more, too. Ten dollar bills there was and twenties and and thirties and forties, for all I know." "That so? Right where Mr. Bangs put 'em, eh? Now I KNOW you was dreamin', Pansy Blossom.
The Orphan Brigade to which I belong is layin' on the ground right in front of us, an' the first regiment is that of Colonel Kenton. I'll hand you over to him, an' not 'cause I've got anything ag'inst you I'll be mighty glad to do it, too, 'cause my back is already nigh breakin' with the responsibility." Dick started violently. "What's hit you?" asked Robertson. "Oh, nothing.
FIFTH TEN MINUTES. "The very devil seems to be in that thing. It burns like as if a sheet of red-hot iron was layin' there." SIXTH TEN MINUTES. "I surely believe that they've made a terrible mistake about that blister, and put in some awful thing that'll kill me if it ain't stopped. I'll swear it's not only eat all the skin off, but it's gone through my ribs, an' is gnawin' at my insides.
Ransome did not evade it; on the contrary, she used it to demonstrate the indomitable power of Mr. Ransome's will. "I say he ought to be layin' down," she said. "But there He won't. You know what He is since He's been sidesman. It's my belief He'd rise up off his deathbed to hand that plate. It's his duty to go, and go He will if He drops. That's your father all over."
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