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Frederick smiled as he read a paragraph: "How do you prosper? Let me know any time a few thousands will help you." He looked at the date, April 18, 1883, and opened another packet. "May 5th," 1883, was the dated sheet he drew out. "Five thousand will put me on my feet again. If you can, and love me, send it along pronto that's Spanish for rush." He glanced again at the two dates.
"I mean good for some people and not others." "So-so. Your madre, Gabriela, may probably kill me for saying it but I think you're right. I mean you need kid school and teenager school. Nobody should to be a dummy but some maybe they find that special thing not in classes. You go to bed soon?" "Pronto." "Pronto. Excelente. Necesitas dormir las horas bastante para tener un dia grande por la manana.
It was like a beacon. The air was cold with a nip of frost. From far on the other side of the ridge she had descended came the bawls of the last straggling cattle of the round-up. But surely Pronto had not shot up his ears for them. As if in answer a wild sound pealed down the slope, making the mustang jump. Columbine had heard it before. "Pronto, it's only a wolf," she soothed him.
Get down in the cellar, you yaller old sinner, and get out the oldest bourbon I got there. You savvy? Pretty damned pronto hurry up quick old keg. Git out!" Johnny was literally hurled out of the room toward the kitchen, trailing a crackle of strange-sounding but unmistakable profanity behind him.
Was Piang to be allowed to go aboard the boat? The soldier made it very plain, finally, that such was the case, but Piang insisted that he could not depart on a pleasure ride without getting his chief's permission. "Sigi, beat it, I tell you, pronto!" said the soldier impatiently, emphasizing the command with a push.
"What I mean is that she mustn't let herself believe the first story some one pulls on her. I think she had better not go out unless one of us is with her." "Suits me." "I thought that might suit you. Well, stick to main-traveled roads and don't take any chances. If you get into trouble, yell bloody murder poco pronto." "And don't you take any, old-timer. That goes double.
"Soon as the lumber gets here, I'll have Andy build you a cupboard," Luck soothed her. "You haven't got many conveniences here, and that's a fact. But we'll get things straightened out, pronto. Got any bones or scraps left, Mrs. Andy? That little black dog that followed us out is here yet. He didn't go back with the boys.
There aren't enough of you in Sour Creek to take Riley Sinclair!" "Ain't it true?" asked Arizona. "All right, son, you'll meet him pronto in the Sour Creek jail, unless the boys finish their party of the other day and string you up before you get inside the jail." This brought a peculiar, low-pitched moan from Cold Feet. "Cheer up," said Sandersen. "You ain't swinging yet awhile." "But he's hurt!
Now that she stood up, he was surprised to see that she was not a shade more than average height, beautifully and strongly made. "You've gone about far enough with your little joke," said the girl, and her voice was low, but with an edge of vibrancy that went through Hollis. "And you're going to stop pronto!" There was a flash of teeth as she spoke, and a quiver through her body.
Take this hatchet here, and go forward to the bows. When I say 'cut, you cut, without looking round. Cut the cable, see? Cut it in two, mucho pronto. And you, Hankin you, Gateo. Stand by the halliards, stretch them along ready to hoist. No. Hoist them. Don't wait. Hoist them now." One or two others lent their hands at the halliards, and the sails were hoisted.
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