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I'll stay right with him for a day or two if I can." "What for?" demanded Roubideau bluntly. "You're not in this thing. You've got no call to mix up in it. The boy saved Polly, an' I'll go this far. If I'm on the spot when he meets Champa or Roush an' I'll try to be there I won't let'em both come at him without takin' a hand. But he has got to choose his own way in life.
Tredgold, slowly "suppose anybody found it without your connivance, would you take your share?" "Let'em find it first," said the captain. "Yes, but would you?" inquired Mr. Chalk. Captain Bowers took up the map and returned it to its place in the bureau. "You go and find it," he said, with a genial smile. "You give us permission?" demanded Tredgold. "Certainly," grinned the captain.
I'd never beat my tambourine over base Pip, and hail him General, if he were once more dying here. No, no! shame upon all cowards shame upon them! Let'em go drown like Pip, that jumped from a whale-boat. Shame! shame!" During all this, Queequeg lay with closed eyes, as if in a dream. Pip was led away, and the sick man was replaced in his hammock.
"Just the same," said he, "I'm beginning to see that it's a good thing to keep some of this timber standing; and the only way it can be done is through the Forest Reserves." "That's all right," agreed Welton. "Let'em reserve. I don't care. But they are a nuisance. They keep stepping on my toes. It's too good a chance to annoy and graft.
"Shipped four white men at Viti Levu and sailed for home," continued Mr. Duckett. "Could have had more, but wanted to save owners' pockets, and worked like A.B.'s ourselves to do so." "Let'em upset that if they can," said Brisket, with a confident smile. "The crew are scattered, and if they happened to get one of them it's only his word against ours. Wait a bit.
It was Grundy's voice, bellowing sharply. "Let'em breathe space! They got us into it! We can make out with the plants left! It's our ship!" Muller had walked forward. Now his fist lashed out, and Grundy crumpled. He lay still for a second, then got to his feet unsteadily. Jenny screamed, but Muller moved steadily back to his former place without looking at the mate.
Then they got this one-sided telephonic conversation in a thick, wheezy voice that was astonishingly like Hedrick's: "Harmony hell, yes; we're always getting the harmony and the Worthington state bank gets the offices." Then a pause ensued. "Well, let'em bolt. I'm getting tired of giving up the whole county ticket to them fellows to keep 'em from bolting."
"There's two girls in there, now," he said, "waiting to have their fortunes doped." "Let'em wait!" exclaimed Mabel. "Vera's upstairs dressing." In her eyes was the baleful glare of the plunger. "What was that you give me in the third race?" At the first touch of the ruling passion, what interest Mannie may have felt for the impatient visitors vanished. "Not in the third," he corrected briskly.
"What do you think of this, major?" whispered Harvey. "Those are Americans sure." "Well, I'd let'em in," said the major; "but where the devil's Feeny? He's the best judge, really. Their story may be all true. They may be alone." "I don't know; it isn't likely. You heard that voice out there a moment ago; that was Mexican beyond any doubt.
Here, can't ye len' a hond? Dom it, I'd ha' dean it if all my boans were brokken. 'Here! cried Nicholas, staggering to his feet, 'I'm ready. I'm only a little abroad, that's all. 'Hoold 'em toight, cried the guard, 'while ar coot treaces. Hang on tiv'em sumhoo. Well deane, my lod. That's it. Let'em goa noo. Dang 'em, they'll gang whoam fast eneaf!
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