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The punishment was moodily received, and the governor went back to the closet. Charlie and Wort were soon consigned to the same spot for disobedience. Pip was noisily moving about. "Say," whispered Sid, "Be good, and take your seat properly." "Take your seat properly!" he then roared. "Pip, you may read about the 'Caravan, on the fifth page. Take Wort's book." "Jutht thee " began Pip.
Vines are loaded. Nice and ripe, too. Watch." He hurled the greeny, spiny oval against the window ledge where it burst with the peculiar "plop," which only a wild cucumber of a certain stage of juicy plumpness can make. "The fellows are going to have a big fight," Silvey continued "Perry Alford and Sid and the Harrison kids and all the rest of the gang.
The boys dressed themselves, hid their accoutrements, and went off grieving that there were no outlaws any more, and wondering what modern civilization could claim to have done to compensate for their loss. They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever. AT half-past nine, that night, Tom and Sid were sent to bed, as usual.
You'll never be rich again. So I wrote him about a month ago that I had found MY olive garden," finished Sidney contentedly, "and was enjoying it." "Captain Burgoyne was older than you, Sid?" Barry questioned. "Wouldn't he have loved this sort of life?" "Twenty years older, yes; but he wouldn't have lived here for one DAY!" she answered vivaciously.
I hope you'll take me and my chums in hand, too, when we get settled at Star Ranch." "Ride, don't you?" "Oh, yes, but not in the fashion that cowboys can," said Dave, and then he invited Sid Todd to sit down with them, which the cowboy did. He was a man of about forty, tall and leathery. His eyes were bubbling over with good humor, but they could become very stern when the occasion demanded it.
She excused herself instead, and hurried back towards her room. On the way she met Howard in the corridor, and he held a telegram in his hand. "I've got some bad news, Honora," he said. "That is, bad from the point of view of our honeymoon. Sid Dallam is swamped with business, and wants me in New York. I'm afraid we've got to cut it short." To his astonishment she smiled.
"Well, how have you enjoyed our prom, Miss Seeley?" asked Sid, as they walked home together under the arching elms of the college campus. "Oh! it was splendid," said Grace enthusiastically. "Everybody was so nice. And then to meet someone who could tell me so much about Max! I must write them home all about it before I sleep, just to calm my head a bit.
And she seized the boy in a crushing embrace that made him feel like the guiltiest of villains. "It was very kind, even though it was only a dream," Sid soliloquized just audibly. "Shut up, Sid! A body does just the same in a dream as he'd do if he was awake. Here's a big Milum apple I've been saving for you, Tom, if you was ever found again now go 'long to school.
"Never you mind, Tom," said Sid Russell, whose faith in Sam's fertility of resource was literally boundless, "never you mind. We ain't a goin' back if the Captain knows it. He's got it all fixed somehow in his head, you may bet your bottom dollar. Just wait till he explains."
By jings, I most slumped through the floor! But there warn't no time to swap knives; the old man grabbed me by the hand and shook, and kept on shaking; and all the time how the woman did dance around and laugh and cry; and then how they both did fire off questions about Sid, and Mary, and the rest of the tribe.
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