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You were just as bad. I remember you were the biggest math. shark in college. You could do calculus problems that took all the English letters from A to Z and then slopped over into the Greek alphabet; and everybody predicted that you would be a great man if anybody ever found any use for calculus.
And, hidden in her captain's stateroom under the head of his bunk, was the ten thousand dollars in gold. For Nat had sworn to himself, by "the everlasting" and other oaths, to deliver that money to his New York owners safe and, necessary expenses deducted of course, untouched. For seven weeks the crazy nondescript slopped across the ocean.
The straw-tinted wine slopped over and frothed on the white skin of her arm. "Well," she breathed, "this ghastly dinner is nearly ended." He nodded pleasantly. "And Phil?" a bit tremulous. "What?" "Was it all my fault? I mean in the beginning? I've wanted to ask you that to know your view of it. Was it?" "No. It was mine, most of it." "Not all not half!
All through the long, feverish, restless night he lay pondering over this miserable interruption of his journey, while the sick-nurse and the surgeon's assistant alternately slopped cooling lotions about his wretched broken leg. "To think that this should happen," he muttered to himself every now and then. "Amongst all the things I've ever dreaded, I never thought of this."
As soon as he was dressed, Mammy sent him to the spring for water. He was gone some time, for he had a faint hope that the birthday Santa Claus whom he had met at Miss Hallie's party might come early, and he spent several minutes looking down the road. Breakfast was ready when he reached the house, and he set the pail down in such a hurry that some of the water slopped out on his bare toes.
It was evident that the wind was freshening, and at times a deluge of icy water slopped in over the gunwale. The men were hampered by their furs, and the stores lying about their feet. The perspiration dripped from Wyllard when they approached a ragged, jutting point.
They fumed with exceeding wrath, and slopped over with pious indignation at the swindle put upon them. The inspired, however, escaped, and was afterwards captured in a cornfield. The funeral was unostentatious. .... We hear a great deal of sentiment with regard to the last solar eclipse. Considerable ink has been consumed in setting forth the terrible and awe-inspiring features of the scene.
Never before had he known Jim to acknowledge himself beaten. Their plight must be serious indeed. The dory swung side to the sea and sank into the trough. A half-barrel of water slopped aboard. Percy bestirred himself. Setting the oar in the scull-hole, he brought the boat's head once more into the wind.
Then I jumped in the canoe and dug out for our place, a mile and a half below, as hard as I could go. I landed, and slopped through the timber and up the ridge and into the cavern. There Jim laid, sound asleep on the ground. I roused him out and says: "Git up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain't a minute to lose. They're after us!"
They slopped a liquid the colour of red ink over their neighbours' more or less white clothes, and threw handfuls of vermilion powder over each other an abominable shade of vermilion so roads and people and sides of houses were all stained with these ugly colours; in fact, at the Ghats or terraces at the river side, where many thousands were congregated, the air was thick with the vermilion dust.
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