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His poor young heart, sir, was fixed upon the place your honor is restorin' us to; an I'm afeard his mother, sir, would break her heart if she thought he couldn't share our good fortune! And we don't know whether he's livin' or dead! That, sir, is what's afflictin' us.
Who's the lady?" Ellis glanced furtively at Mary, squirming his bare toes on the dusty floor. "Wal, I cal'lated I could find it," he replied. "I undertook it on my own hook, and I guess I'll see it through. I'd like the fun of restorin' it, if I can, Jim." The postmaster laughed. "You're right cute, Ellis," he said. "Parker gone a-fishin' yet?"
We pledge ourselves, if our ticket is elected, to repeal those laws at once and put every civil service reformer in jail." Just imagine the wild enthusiasm of the party, if that plank was adapted, and the rush of Republicans to join us in restorin' our country to what it was before this college professor's nightmare, called civil service reform, got hold of it!
'Surely, Miss Barclay, you wouldn't set the poor lad in the forefront of danger again! said lady Macintosh. 'I wud that, my lady! I canna but think the airmy, savin for this misadventur gien there be ony sic thing as misadventur hed a fair chance o' makin a man o' Francie; and whiles I canna help doobtin gien onything less 'ill ever restore him til himsel but restorin him til 's former position.
How she maks a body shake wi' the sound o' her voice, and the solidity o' her thoughts! and how beautifully she softens doun the impression o' her authority, by restorin, wi' a half-severe, half-kind sort o' a smile, peculiar to hersel, the confidence she frightened awa by the mere force o' her superior intellect!" "How beautifully, in short, Andrew," said the deacon, "are you henpecked!
"'We've been pushin' on our windin' uphill way for mighty likely half a day, an' I'm beginnin' so dooms slows is our progress to despair of gettin' out on top the mesa before dark, when to put a coat of paint on the gen'ral trouble the lead waggon breaks down. I turns out in the snow with the rest, an' we-all puts in a heated an' highly profane half-hour restorin' the waggon to health.
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