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The driver turned and glanced at Kit, then spoke to Shirley: "How far away do you reckon that lake is, Miss?" "A mile!" replied Bet decidedly. "No, it's more than that," corrected Shirley. "I remember of reading somewhere that distances in the desert are very deceiving. It's probably a lot farther off than it seems. I'll say five miles."
"When a man fust falls in love," he said, "he hain't got time ter think of nuthin' else ... then all ther balance of matters comes back ... an' needs ter be fronted. Thar's things I've got ter tell ye, Dorothy." "What matters air them, Cal? I hain't thought of nuthin' else yit." "Ye didn't know nuthin' erbout me when I come hyar ... ye jest tuck me on faith, I reckon...."
We shall have no difficulty, I reckon, in discovering the whereabout of the tribe which has been away on this expedition." The Scotchman took up the rifle. "I am ready," he said, and without another word the party started for the fort. Upon their arrival there a consultation was held with the Seneca.
"I reckon the Indians were getting ready to come down on us, anyhow," answered Dan. "It seems they can stay quiet just so long, and then their animal nature breaks loose for a shindy." Dan had just returned to the loft after his repast, when he uttered a shout. "An Indian is coming toward the cabin, Ralph!" "Do you know him?" "No, but he is a Comanche." "In war-paint?"
This statement struck me a blow; for I had good reason to know that at that time the king had alienated many by his infatuation for Madame de Verneuil; while I had always to reckon firstly with all who hated him, and secondly with all whom my pursuit of his interests injured, either in reality or appearance.
"The trees will stop 'em before they get here," Reade insisted. "The trees will do nothing of the sort," uttered Dick, glancing swiftly about him. "The cattle are among the trees already. Just hear that rumble. And it's a lot closer now." "I reckon we'd better move, do it now, and do it fast," cried Hazelton, who knew that Dick's judgment was generally the best.
He wanted to ease his swollen heart by some passionate outburst, but an obstinate instinct, which was beyond his control, prevented his making a ridiculous display of his emotion. The desire to curse aloud, to hurl defiant things at a personal deity, was battling within him, but instead of yielding to it he merely repeated: "I reckon you're right it wouldn't be fair to you in the end."
"Well, I am, though," replied Miss Fortune; "there's a good many hands of 'em; they can turn off a good lot of work in an evening; and they always take care to get me to their bees. I may as well get something out of them in return, if I can." "They'll reckon on getting as much as they can get o' you, if they come, there's no sort of doubt in my mind.
When he started in the other direction after hastily eating the meal, he knew he should be out until past moonrise, and told Lot so. "I'll come and meet you," said his campmate. "No need. Reckon I can find my way back alone," said Enoch. "The moon'll be up by seven and it's nigh full." It was so, yet Enoch had no thought when he left the camp that he would be as long delayed as he was.
She said, "I reckon I can get him to tell you," and she went to a pear-tree that there was before her house and cut a long sucker from the foot of it. She came up to Jim and then she said: "Tell!" She did not have to say it twice, and in about half a second he told how Pony had intended to run off and how he put him up to it, and everything.
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