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Horrible!... I don't think I could have slept at night for thinking of the Ravin de Bitry, if we hadn't had such a refreshing run home that the impression of the lost, dark place was purified away. Forest fragrance sprayed into our faces like perfume from a vaporizer.
Yer allers gettin' inter hot water with her." "I didn't say nothin'," says Dave. "I jest went up laughin' like, an' says, `How are yer, Mrs Hardwick? an' she ups an' lets me have a dish of dirty wash-up water, an' then on top of that she let fly with a dipper of scaldin'-hot, greasy water outer the boiler. She's gone clean ravin' mad, I think."
In reply to his inquiries, he was told by Aunt Judy, that "somehow or ’nother, Miss Julia had got wind of Mr. Dunn’s death, and it had gone to her head, makin’ her ravin’ mad, and the doctor said she wouldn’t get well." Aunt Judy was right; Julia had accidently heard of Mr. Dunn’s death, and it added greatly to the nervous excitement which she was already suffering, and when Dr.
Some are leaning over the shoulder of a pal who has just received a Paris paper, others chuckling together at the jokes of their own French journal the "Echo du Ravin," the "Journal des Poilus," or the "Diable Bleu": little papers ground out in purplish script on foolscap, and adorned with comic-sketches and a wealth of local humour.
Some say I'm an old fool in his dotage, ravin' aboot a favorite son. But they are people who hate me an' are afraid. True, son, I talked with a purpose, but shore I was mighty cold an' steady when I did it. My feelin' was that you'd do what I'd do if I were thirty years younger. No, I reckoned you'd do more. For I figured on your blood.
My Gawd! that girl's goin' to run me ravin' crazy, tryin' to keep her on her job! Nancy!" Nancy looked at Mr. Champneys speculatively. "Is what you got to say worth me tellin' her to set them plates herself?" she asked. "Well worth it," said Mr. Champneys, emphatically. She jumped for the door with cat-like quickness. Also, she lifted her voice with cat-like ferocity. "I'm busy! I can't co-ome.
He understood from Dan's delirious ravings that the girl was in love with Lee Haines and had deserted Barry for the outlaw. "Say, ain't Haines goodlookin' enough to please her?" Purvis laughed unpleasantly. "He'd like to be, but he don't quite fit her idea of a man. We'd all like to be, for that matter. She's a ravin' beauty, Buck.
Maybe he'll like playin' the devoted slave act for the rest of his life. Besides, she's on a new tack. The Major's quite a husk too. I'll bet he don't qualify for any memorial window. Not him!" The Adamses hadn't been in the neighborhood two weeks before Sadie's discovered Veronica and was ravin' over her. "Isn't she perfectly stunning, Shorty?" she demands.
At Wilmington no news had been recaved of any tragedy in Philadelphia, and when I told my story there to a gentleman he concluded I was ravin' and a seein' delusions. The Austrian was short av a crew, and the docthor said if they could get away to sea he could make me effective very soon. I was too helpless to go on deck or make resistance. Says I, 'It's the will av God."
"He was lyin' sick in bed, ravin' about 'Delilah' an' 'Kate. So I come an' got the girl." Haines dropped his head. "An' when he was lyin' there," said Silent fiercely, "you could of made an' end of him without half liftin' your hand, an' you didn't." "Silent," said Haines, "if you want to talk, speak to me." "What in hell do you mean, Lee?" "You can't get at Buck except through me."
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