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I'm a plain man with a liking for straight talk, Ralph so are you and it might make things easier if I were to tell you. It's Miss Aline that scared me." I burst out laughing, but Jasper did not join; then I waited somewhat astonished until he continued: "She's the flower of this prairie, and she's got a mighty cute head of her own. I never could stand them foolish women.
"Is there half a chance to get at 'im?" inquired two or three men together. Belfast untied himself with blind impetuosity, and all at once shot down to leeward quicker than a flash of lightning. We shouted all together with dismay; but with his legs overboard he held and yelled for a rope. In our extremity nothing could be terrible; so we judged him funny kicking there, and with his scared face.
Next came the steward and the Mayor's secretary, who, having been sent for at the same time, arrived together. They looked scared, and hurried forward out of breath, walking and trotting in turn in order to hasten their progress, and moving their arms up and down so vigorously that they seemed to do more work with them than with their legs.
"But you would not betray me?" exclaimed the gaoler's daughter, anxiously. "No, darling. The necessity for danger to you to us, I may say is entirely done away with." "What do you mean?" "The gallant men will rescue their comrades on Thursday on the way to the execution." "What!" said Mariana; "Thursday!" "Yes." "Then you don't know," she exclaimed, with a wild scared look. "Know what?"
"After midnight the life-boat got alongside, and all hands were for scrambling aboard; but I'd got set in my notion the ship would live the gale out, and I wouldn't go aboard. Well, the old man was too scared to make long stories, and he tumbled aboard the life-boat in a hurry. The last words he said to me, as he went over the side, were, 'Good-bye, Mr. Cope!
Lawrence Hall, and we immediately decide to make the balance true by patronizing its rival Donegana, whereupon a man a mere disinterested spectator of course informs us in confidence that the Donegana is nothing but ruins; he should not think we would go there; burnt down a few years ago, a shabby place, kept by a grass widow; but when was American ever scared off by the sound of a ruin?
I am pinching my cheeks almost black and blue, so mother won't notice. I don't talk scared now, do I?" "Not very." "Well, I think I can manage that. I think I can manage my voice. I am all over being faint. Oh, I will tell you what I will do. You haven't got your medicine-case with you, have you?" "No, I started so hurriedly." "Well, I will go in the office way.
But, quick as they were, the strength of the driver's skillful arms met their weight on the reins and forced them to keep the road. "You blamed fools" the driver chided good-naturedly, as they plunged ahead "been raised on a cow ranch to get scared at a calf in the brush!" Very slowly the stranger came from behind the bushes. Cautiously he returned to the road.
If they saw us do any pussyfooting, they'd think we were scared, and they'd come after us anyway." The two parties were not traveling in such a line that they would necessarily meet each other. Under ordinary conditions they would have passed at a distance of perhaps six hundred feet.
Ginger was the fust to 'ear 'is foot on the stairs, and as he came into the room, in the darkness, him an' Peter Russet started shaking their bed in a way that scared old Sam nearly to death. He thought it was Bill carrying on agin, and 'e was out o' that door and 'arf-way downstairs afore he stopped to take breath.
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