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And at night Maria would sometimes wake to find Zerkow gone from the bed, and would see him burrowing into some corner by the light of his dark-lantern and would hear him mumbling to himself: "There were more'n a hundred pieces, and every one of 'em gold when the leather trunk was opened it fair dazzled your eyes why, just that punchbowl was worth a fortune, I guess; solid, solid, heavy, rich, pure gold, nothun but gold, gold, heaps and heaps of it what a glory!
Somehow he managed to impress Old Grannis, a gentle, simple-minded old man, with a sense of his fitness, bewildering him with a torrent of empty phrases that he delivered with fierce gestures and with a manner of the greatest conviction. "You'd better come along with me, Mac," observed Marcus. "We'll get the duck's dog, and then we'll take a little walk, huh? You got nothun to do. Come along."
"Going to stop abed?" she asked, in a husky voice, in which the smuts seemed floating. "Yes. What's there to get up for?" Cuckoo groaned. "Nothun' as I know of." And Mrs. Brigg was gone about her business. All the morning Cuckoo lay staring at the blank square of the window, and Jessie snored under the blankets. The tea was drunk, the toast lay about in fragments.
All this being quite clear, I could not possibly account for the lowness of the price, otherwise than by feeling quite confident that there must be "a some'ut." While thus deliberating, "Mr. Graham," said the dealer, "will you mind what I says? You'll never be married you never can make up your mind to nothun, I see." On my getting into the saddle, to try him along a few streets, Mr.
He hollowed his hands to his mouth, he cleared his hoarse throat two or three times. Only a little trailing screech came from it at first. Then he cursed his weakness, and pulled himself together. "Jark! Jark Curtus!" he hailed, in an explosive voice. "Hullo!" The weak, small response floated down. "My lard! my poor lard! we've thought oor best, arnd we can do nothun fower 'ee."
"Look at that horse move his head," he cried excitedly, quite carried away. "Look at that cable car coming and the man going across the street. See, here comes a truck. Well, I never in all my life! What would Marcus say to this?" "It's all a drick!" exclaimed Mrs. Sieppe, with sudden conviction. "I ain't no fool; dot's nothun but a drick." "Well, of course, mamma," exclaimed Trina, "it's "
"Well, what are we going to do about it, Mac?" he said. "I don' know," answered McTeague, in great distress. "I don' want anything to to come between us, Mark." "Well, nothun will, you bet!" vociferated the other. "No, sir; you bet not, Mac." Marcus was thinking hard.
The duck thought he had the distemper, and just threw 'um away. Nothun wrong with 'um but a little catarrh. Ain't he a bird? Say, ain't he a bird? Look at his flag; it's perfect; and see how he carries his tail on a line with his back. See how stiff and white his whiskers are. Oh, by damn! you can't fool me on a dog. That dog's a winner."
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