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George; but with an assurance, also, that it was impossible for her to say anything in his favour. "You may be sure of this, Mr. Pritchett, that my uncle will never consult me about his money." "He'll never consult any human being, ma'am. He wouldn't consult Solomon if Solomon were to go to Hadley o' purpose. But you might slip in a word that Mr. George was not in fault; mightn't you, ma'am?"
"In any case," said Barnett, "such a glow as that we sighted last night I've never seen from any volcano." "Nor I," said Trendon. "Don't prove it mightn't have been." "I'll just bet the best dinner in San Francisco that it isn't," said Edwards. "You're on," said Carter. "Let me in," suggested Ives. "And I'll take one of it," said McGuire. "Come one, come all," said Edwards cheerily.
We squelched along a narrow strip of plank with the trenches on one side and a sort of cesspool on the other no wonder they got typhoid, and I prayed I mightn't slip. We could walk upright further on without our heads showing, which was a comfort, as it is extremely tiring to walk for long in a stooping position.
"And ef you felt this right ahrum, child, you mightn't like to feel it a second time," burst in Mother Bunch, as she brandished this powerful member in Dent's face. "What am I to do?" he exclaimed. "I can't stay on here I I just can't. You ha' got me in your power. You'll rue it some day. Er I say what you want me to say, I'll go to prison instead of Will.
'But you speak as if you thought it mightn't be, Alfred? 'Didn't know that I did. Well, I haven't seen her since I got home. She's upstairs. 'Can't I see her to-night? I do so want to. 'I dare say she'd be glad. 'But what is it, my dear boy? I'm sure you speak as if you weren't quite satisfied. 'The mater says it's all right I suppose she knows. 'But you've always been so anxious for it.
"What is it?" said Jeremy in a voice that seemed new to them all older, more resolute, strangely challenging for so small a boy. "Your mother's very ill, Jeremy, dear. You must be a very good boy, and help your sisters." "Mightn't I go for just a minute?" "No, certainly not." They all went upstairs. Then, in the schoolroom, Miss Jones said an amazing thing.
Mrs Bray, one of those very everyday folk whose god was mammon, and who naturally hung on every word issuing from a person of means while she would ignore the most inimitable witticism from an impecunious individual, began to regard the lady-help from a new point of view. "She mightn't have done so bad for herself after all.
"Not a thing in it that mightn't be in any woman's bag in this country. To me, that cleaner's advertisement means nothing in connection with Miss Lloyd." "I am glad to hear you say that, Mr. Burroughs. I confess I have had a half-fear that your suspicions had a trend in Florence's direction, and I assure you, sir, that girl is incapable of the slightest impulse toward crime."
'I'm sure, I said to him, 'I wish they were; the house would be the quieter missing them; but their father insists on educating them himself, because he won't let them mix up with the common children in the school; they're by way of being little gentry, do you see, I said, 'though indeed you mightn't think it to look at them. Oh dear me, he was so impolite; he wouldn't believe that Hilary was doing his duty by them, though I assured him that he read them all the 'Ancient Mariner' yesterday morning while they watched him dress, and that I was teaching them the alphabet whenever I had a spare minute.
Only because you mightn't come I must tell you " She lost her voice. Her pale face, her great, glowing, earnest eyes, seemed to stand alone out of the gloom of the gorge. The dog whined, breaking the silence. "I must tell you because you mightn't come back," she whispered. "You must know what what I think of your goodness of you. Always I've been tongue-tied. I seemed not to be grateful.
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