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Men are never so interesting as when they talk shop, and as a talker of shop Dawson was sublime. "If," said Dawson, as the time approached for the closing scene, "our much-wanted friend has himself handed in the parcel at Carlisle he would be afraid to trust an accomplice our job will be done. If not, I will pull a drag net through this place which will bring him up within a day or two.
This he did with the same show of respect evinced by Dr. Price. "We are obliged to you for your confidence," said he. "Of course you can tell us this young girl's name." "Angeline Angeline Willetts. I saw it in the list of passengers." "What ship?" "The Castania, from Southampton." "We are greatly obliged to you for this information. It gives us the much-wanted clue to her identity.
W. Cattle, is evidently capable, if he had his head given him, of running us all into great dangers and confusion. I conclude, therefore, what, indeed, few of those who do me the honour to read this disquisition are likely to dispute, that we can as little find in the working-class as in the aristocratic or in the middle class our much-wanted source of authority, as culture suggests it to us.
Russell Shaw would, I doubt not, take the contract for 4,000l., and a macadamised cart-road could be made for 500l. This would be the beginning of a much-wanted change. At present the prices of transport are appalling. Moreover, native hands are not always forthcoming. It has evidently no connection with Abyssinian Ankober.
He is what is known in the cattle country as a "go-gitter." It is told of him that he once nearly lost his commission, while in the constabulary, by sending to the Governor, as a Christmas present, a package which, upon being opened, was found to contain the head of a much-wanted outlaw.
He glanced up from the cards which lay before him to the two men who had sent them in, and silently pointed them to chairs near his own. "Good-evening, sir," said Easleby, with a polite bow. "Sorry to interrupt you, Mr. Castlemayne, but you see our business from our cards, and we've called, sir, to ask if you can give us a bit of much-wanted information.
It was cruel work spurring and lashing them over heavy ploughed land to-day. July 8. Rest at last. It is Sunday morning, and we are all lying or sitting about, bathed in warm sunshine, waiting for orders, but it seems we shan't move to-day. My blankets are all spread out, getting a much-wanted drying, but what I chiefly want is a wash.
Shriveled and aged beyond his natural years, with scarcely a true friend among his acquaintances, weary of the monotony of life not in incident but in prospect too shrewd to drug himself with drink, and realizing that the money he had got together both by hook and by crook and banked in El Paso could never make him other than he was, he faced the alternative of binding himself to Pete's dire need and desperate condition, or riding to Baxter and taking the train from thence to El Paso his eyes open to what he was doing, both as a self-appointed Samaritan and as a much-wanted individual in the town where Pete lay unconscious, on the very last thin edge of Nothingness.
He felt, and the feeling was undoubtedly just, that the possession of a small independent property would secure to him the much-wanted support in life, not only as furnishing him with additional means of subsistence, but in raising his mental energies, dependent hitherto upon the fitful accidents connected with his position of farm-labourer.
The only thing we can do is to try to feel under him with our hands." Dropping to their knees, the lads thrust their arms under the shaggy fur, being able to reach far; enough to make sure that the much-wanted rifle was not beneath the body of the bear. "Bet he knocked it over the cliff," declared Horace. "From which side did he strike it, Tom?" "More than I know. All I could see was paws.
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