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You needn't be afraid to get on," he added, "because it'll drift up the river now and it won't go past Bridgeboro on account of Waring's reef. There's where I want it to stick because if it sticks there it'll stay there, you can bet. Come on, don't you be scared."

That's how it is with all of us who go in for this sort of thing. But it's like opium, you know; you try it the first time for the lark of it; the end is tragedy." Amber drew a long breath, his eyes glistening with wonder and admiration of the man. "You don't mean to tell me you run such risks for the pure love of it?" "Well ... perhaps not altogether. But we needn't go into details, need we?"

"You needn't be so careful, Pablo. I bring you good news better than you deserve. Mr. Gordon has promised to drop the cases against you and Sebastian. Even if the officers arrest you, nothing can come of it except a trip to Santa for a few days. If I were you I would give myself up. The rewards have been withdrawn, so it is not likely your friends will betray you." "But, Doña, are you sure?

His heavy jaw trembled as if he had been overtaken with a brief attack of palsy; so also did the hand which replaced his pipe between his loosely quivering lips. "That little yellow-haired witch must have given yuh the cold shoulder; but you needn't take it out on me. Had a quarrel?"

His features were grave, but there was the gleam of a hidden laugh in his eyes as he spoke. Smith saw it, and he could have knocked him down for it. "You'll be sorrier still to hear that Monkhouse Lee is doing very well, and is out of all danger," he answered. "Your hellish tricks have not come off this time. Oh, you needn't try to brazen it out. I know all about it."

We were brought up to think that courtship and marriage were the most important events in our lives. I don't know what's getting into the heads of the young girls nowadays!" But the King, who was still smiling from the tickling little kiss which the Princess had planted under the corner of his mustache, always answered: "Tut! Tut! We needn't worry yet!

Hubbard," he explained, "and pie means meat-pie, or squash-pie, at a pinch. Today's pie-baking day. But you needn't be troubled on that account. So's to-morrow, and so was yesterday. Pie twenty-one times a week is the word, and don't you forget it.

"It reminds me of that other April evening two years ago, Dithy, when we came down here to say good-by. You cried then at parting do you remember? But you were only sixteen, poor child, and knew no better. You wouldn't cry now, would you, for any man in the universe?" "Not for Charley Stuart certainly he needn't think it." "He doesn't think it, my pet; he never looks for impossibilities.

Lulu hurried to it and closed it gently, then turning toward her sister, "Yes," she said, "but it's early, and you needn't get up just yet. I'm coming to creep in with you for a few minutes while I tell you something that I'm sure will please you."

Selling it or borrowing money on it anything of that kind would be a penal offence. You probably understand this but if so, telling you can do no harm; and if you didn't know it, it may prevent you from making a mistake." "I guess you needn't lay awake nights over my going to the pen," Johnny replied loftily. "I believe our business is finished for the present so good day to you, Mr. Selmer."