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This action seemed not quite to satisfy her; either she did not comprehend what he meant, or it hurt her self-pride, for she said quickly: "I havn't only green veils p'raps you'd like some candles better I makes them too." "YOU make them?" said Frank, laughing as he glanced at the little hands that were still holding the veil for his acceptance. "YOU make them?
I suppose I'm going to die, so I ain't got any shame about tellin' you all this. Though if I thought I was goin' to live, I'd cut my tongue out sooner'n offend you Oh," he gave a kind of groan "When the news come about Mrs. Warren bein' dead an' you p'raps without money and at the mercy of these Germans ... well! all I wonder at is I didn't steal an airyplane, and come in that.
"Well, we're going to land here," Bandy-legs ventured; "and it won't be hard to go up and interview the old lady. P'raps we can make a bargain with her for some of her grub. I've got a dollar along with me, and I reckon some of the rest ought to make as good a showing." "There'll be no trouble about that part of it, if only the food is around," Max assured them.
That's why I don't want to get married as most girls do. I never ought to marry. I know too much." "But you'll marry me?" he said swiftly. "I don't know," she said. "Not anyway yet. If if you can stick to me for six months I p'raps I'll think about it. But I think you'll come to your senses long before then, Bunny." A desolate little note of humour sounded in her voice.
'Why don't you look at it, then? inquired Mr. Weller. 'So I am a-lookin' at it, replied Sam, 'but there's another blot. Here's a "c," and a "i," and a "d." 'Circumwented, p'raps, suggested Mr. Weller. 'No, it ain't that, said Sam, "circumscribed"; that's it. 'That ain't as good a word as "circumwented," Sammy, said Mr. Weller gravely. 'Think not? said Sam.
Smut wagged his tail. 'It's so pretty, she continued, 'that it makes me think I'd like to be good. P'raps I'd better fix to try again after all what do you think, Smut? Repeated and more energetic tail-wagging, accompanied this time by a short sharp bark. Smut has had enough of the sunset and standing still; he wants to be off again. But Bride interprets his response in her own way.
'Look here, Dick, said Harry, before parting, 'I owe you an awful lot, my life, p'raps; but for every little thing you do for her I'll owe you a thousand times more a thousand thousand times more. Dick's wise sympathetic eyes looked into his, and the boy nodded gravely. 'You can swear I'll stick up fer her, he said.
The lucky one o' this world don't grasp it; but we others do; and after all p'raps, it's worth while havin' gone through it to have got at ONE bit of the truth, however, small. Good night." He turned on his heel, and before his words were cold on the air had vanished, leaving Mahony blankly staring.
Lilith was unlucky enough to hesitate, ever so slightly. "Oh, he's got plenty of money," she asserted. "She doesn't like to say what he is!" "I don't care whether I say it or not." "A butcher, p'raps, or an undertaker?" "A butcher! He's got the biggest newspaper in Brisbane!" "A newspaper! Great Scott! Her uncle keeps a newspaper!" There was a burst of laughter from those standing round.
S'pose, if 'tain't too much trouble, you walk up there with me and I'll stay there to-night and to-morrer I'll come down here, and we'll all have a common-sense talk. P'raps by that time your friend 'll have the darky woman some off his mind, too." Needless to say Captain Eri agreed to this plan with alacrity.
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