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Slapping Juba on the shoulder, he danced around him, laughing joyously, and exclaiming: "Bully old boy! Oh, you're a trump! Wait till I get you in New York, and I'll give you the time of your life! Eh, Edmund, won't we make him a member of Olympus? Golly, won't he make a sensation!" And Jack hugged himself again with delight. His reference to home threw us into a musing.
"Oh, we'll have you sayin' worse things than 'damn' when we get you out on the front with a goddam German aeroplane droppin' bombs on you," said the top sergeant, slapping him on the back. "Now, I want you five men to look out for the grub." Fuselli's chest swelled. "The company'll be in charge of the corporal for the night. Sergeant Jones and I have got to be with the lieutenant, understand?"
"Well, you look at him!" shouted Hiram, slapping his breast. He noted a look of alarm on the Cap'n's face, and muttered to him under his breath: "You ain't goin' to let a pack of wimmen back ye down, be ye?" "How be we goin' to work to run it?" whispered the Cap'n. "That ain't the p'int now," growled Hiram. "The p'int is, we're goin' to run it. And you've got to back me up."
He glanced aside, but she continued to stare at him fixedly. "How are you comin' on?" she asked him, slapping a little girl in a blue homespun dress who was about to fall out of the wagon. "Pretty well, thank you," replied Westerfelt, coldly. He had detected a suggestion of a sneer about the old woman's lips. "Cuts is a bad thing," she went on.
The squall which had so nearly capsized the Dazzler was of short duration, but it marked the rising of the wind, and soon puff after puff was shrieking down upon them out of the north. The mainsail was spilling the wind, and slapping and thrashing about till it seemed it would tear itself to pieces. The sloop was rolling wildly in the quick sea which had come up.
'How can you be such a silly thing, replied Dora, slapping my hand, 'as to sit there, telling such stories? I'll make Jip bite you! Her childish way was the most delicious way in the world to me, but it was necessary to be explicit, and I solemnly repeated: 'Dora, my own life, I am your ruined David! 'I declare I'll make Jip bite you! said Dora, shaking her curls, 'if you are so ridiculous.
This is very queer, he muttered, slapping the open sheet just as his wife had done, and reading it again at arm's-length. 'Somebody' he looked suspiciously round the room 'has been reading my notes or picking out my thoughts while I'm asleep, eh? 'But it's a real letter, objected Jinny; 'it's correspondence, isn't it, Daddy?
The talking of so many persons, the squalling of so many babies, the mothers scolding and slapping every third child, the yelling of the children at play, the shouts and loud repartee of the men and women all these noises rolled together in the air makes a steady hum and roar that not even the breakers on a hard sea-beach can equal.
"Well," he said, slapping the side pockets of his waistcoat, "we pulled it off, didn't we?" The possibility of an evening train back to Chicago and of a big deal creditably accomplished quickening his well-being. "Indeed we did!" she replied, heartily. More and more, on these intermittent visits of his, the icy edge of her self-consciousness was beginning to thaw.
The next day Johannes came back with notes in his pocketbook and a mare running behind the cart. It was the same kind of horse as the one he drove, only a little more stiff in its movements; he had bought it for next to nothing to be killed. "But it would be a sin to kill it; it's not too far gone to enjoy life yet, eh, old lady?" said he, slapping its back.
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