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"O-oh!" "And that is just what I came home to confess." She paused at the sight of Molly's face. "What! are you against me too? Then I must fight this out alone, it seems." "Darling Hetty, you must not ah, don't look so at me!" But Hetty turned her back. "Please leave me." "If you had only written " "That would take long to explain. I am tired, and it is not worth while; please leave me."
"And then, of course, she screamed out in fear?" said Dave, with a smile. "Screamed nothing," dissented Hiram. "She just spoke one delighted 'O-oh! and then: 'Higher, oh, please keep on going! Say, Dave, she looked so bright and brave I couldn't help it Z I P!" "What does 'Z I P! mean, Hiram?" asked Dave.
There's father," as a cry of "O-oh, Sophy!" was heard below. "Sophy's up here in the north room, dad," he called, eliciting from his mother the expected "You impertinent boy!" The Doctor came in, bringing with him an air of excitement that made Bob cry, "What's up?" Mrs. Morgan laid down her half-darned sock in anticipation. "You never can guess the latest development."
"Arrah, though, me bhoy, ye look as if ye'd been toorned insoide out, loike them injy-rubber divils childer has to play wid. 'Dade an' I'd loike to say ye sprooce an' hearty ag'in; but ownly kape aisy an' ye'll be all roight in toime. D'ye fale hoongry yit?" "Hungry!" I screamed, ill again at the very thought of eating. "Go away, do, and leave me alone o-oh!"
"Listen to me, you women!" she went on, and tried to smile, to gain their favor. "I lied to you, to get even with you. You want your husband. Well, I lied. He isn't dead. For all you tried to shut me out. Do you never pity? Do you never help? O-oh " Her hand traveled over her brow, and her eyes wandered. "No one knows what I need now! I got to tell it, I got to tell it! Hear that?"
"Do you ever find any very curious things, Captain?" she inquired on being thus appealed to. "I mean really curious things!" "Oh yes, my dear," replied the old sailor. "I was once out trawling with a fisherman off Saint Helens, when we dragged up a donkey-cart!" "O-oh!" exclaimed Nellie, opening her blue eyes wide with wonder. "Did you catch the donkey as well?"
"Quite so. Now when your father happened to earn a sovereign, did he go and hang it on his watch-chain?" "What a silly question!" "It isn't at all a silly question. . . . Tell me how many sovereigns you've seen in your life, and how many guineas?" "O-oh! . . . I think I see what you mean-" "I congratulate you, I'm sure!
Mark rose and opened the door, and presently a ridiculous little draggled object, as black as a cinder, its long hair caked and clotted with dried mud, shuffled into the room with the evident intention of sneaking into a warm corner without attracting public notice an intention promptly foiled by the indignant Dolly. 'O-oh! she cried; 'it's Frisk. Look at him, everybody do look at him.
"Did you ever see him, D.?" "O-oh, well! Think I'm goin' to tell everything I know? Well, I guess not." "Well, but did you now?" "M-well, that 'd be tellin'." "Aw, now, D., tell me." "Look out what you're doin'. Now see that. You pretty near made me mash my thumb." "Aw, now, D., tell me. I think you might. I don't believe you ever did." "Oh, you don't, hey? Well, if you had 'a saw what I saw. M-m!
The nasty, mean, cheap, selfish, make-belief things. She would show them! O-oh! how she hated them. Now as she cried she also thought of the fact that Eugene could write love letters to this horrible Christina Channing one of the same kind, no doubt; her letters showed it. O-oh! how she hated her! If she could only get at her to poison her.
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