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Here she looked uneasily at the other players. The man who stole the ace translated it at once, and said: "We'll git out ef yer say so, mum; but yer needn't be afraid to say ennything before us. We know a lady when we see her, an' mebbe some on us ken give yer a lift; if we can't, I've only got to say thet ef yer let out enny secrets, grizzlies couldn't tear 'em out uv enny man in this crowd.
I could not wait longer," broke in the other, in a voice husky with eagerness and liquor. "After dark, when no one can see us going out to the shed. No one must know, Lablache, mind no one. Jacky will not dream of what we are doing." "Very well. To-morrow, then. At eleven o'clock at night, John. And as you say in the meantime mum." Lablache was pleased with the rancher's suggestion.
One room would be sufficient, and I ask for very little attendance. She had but one room to let, replied the other. It might be inspected. They went upstairs. The room was at the back of the house, small, but neatly furnished. Its appearance seemed to gratify the visitor, for she smiled timidly. 'What rent should you ask? 'That would depend, mum, on what attendance was required.
Little Jon reflected; Venus was in his book about the Greeks and Trojans. Then Anna was her Christian and Dyomene her surname? But it appeared, on inquiry, that it was one word, which meant rising from the foam. "Did she rise from the foam in Glensofantrim?" "Yes; every day." "What is she like, Daddy?" "Like Mum." "Oh!
"Donny, if they don't go to the house right away, you go and tell mum they're here. Chances are the whole bunch'll hang around till supper." "Say!" Gene giggled with fourteen-year-old irrepressibility. "Does anybody know where Vadnie is? If we could spring 'em on her and make her believe they're on the warpath say, I'll gamble she'd run clear to the Malad!"
But he never answered our letter!" cried Erebus. The Terror hesitated a moment, opened his mouth to speak, shut it, opened it again and said in a soothing tone: "All right, Mum; we'll apologize." "I'll take you to the Grange to-morrow afternoon to do it," said Mrs.
An old woman in a parish adjoining mine, having lost a child, received the condolences of a visitor with, "Yes, mum; we seems to be regular unlucky, for only a few weeks ago we lost a pig."
"Darling," she murmured, "if you are so happy as to laugh like that I am happy, too, and will do just what you wish." Her proud eyes filled with mist and she pressed his hand. "Mum, you are a trump!" he said, and he kissed her again and, holding her arm, he led her back into the morning-room. "Now I must go and change these things," he announced, as he looked down at his riding clothes.
Cleopatra landing from her golden galley never received a heartier greeting than "Little Mum" as she was borne to her tent by the young folk, for love of whom she smilingly resigned herself to three days of discomfort; while Jamie immediately attached himself to Rose, assuring her of his protection from the manifold perils which might assail them.
I just reminded him of it in a quiet way, and its final result, and he said in a whisper, 'You did it, Colonel, you did it, sir but keep it mum for my sake; and I'll tell you what you do, says he, 'you go into the law, Col. Sellers go into the law, sir; that's your native element! And into the law the subscriber is going. There's worlds of money in it! whole worlds of money!
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