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There's a heap of difference in our appetites, from the looks of our layouts," he began amiably. "I'm hungry as a she-wolf, myself. Hope they don't make me wash the dishes when I'm through; I'm always kinda scared of these grab-it-and-go joints. I always feel like making a sneak when nobody's looking, for fear I'll be called back to clean up." Peter smiled and handed his tray to a waiter.
He had seen more of life and men and put two and two together. One thing stared him plainly in the face. The Arizona who skulked in the corner had relapsed eight years. He was the same sneak thief whom Sinclair had first met in the lumber camp, and he knew instinctively that this was the first time since that unpleasant episode that Arizona had been cornered.
The sheepmen are hiding along the river waiting for a chance to sneak across, and if I should stay in camp for a single day they might make a break and then we would have a war. Your father doesn't understand that, but I do; and I know that Jeff will never submit to being sheeped out without a fight. Can't you see how it is?
"He has a kind of way," Hitty conceded, "but I ain't one o' them kind o' women that hankers much for the society of a man that's once shown himself to be more of a sneak than the average." "I don't think that I am, either," Nancy said gravely.
"I've allus had my suspicions o' them early candle-light meetings down at that gospel shop," said one critic, "and I reckon Deacon Hotchkiss didn't rope in the gals to attend jest for psalm-singing." "Then for him to get up and leave the board afore the game's finished and try to sneak out of it," said an other, "I suppose that's what they call RELIGIOUS."
My principal astonishment on these occasions was, that they did not actually kill each other, or, at least, break each other's bones; for they seemed to strike with all the fury and vigour of a real engagement; but they kept such exact time, that at a moment's notice they all left off, and began joking and laughing, except a very few, whom I observed to sneak away to wash off some bloody witness, or to put a plaster on their broken skin.
But I never stole nothin' but cattle from some rancher who never missed 'em anyway. Thet sneak Benson he was the means of puttin' a little girl in Bland's way." "Girl?" queried Duane, now with real attention. "Shore. Bland's great on women. I'll tell you about this girl when we get out of here. Some of the gang are goin' to be sociable, an' I can't talk about the chief."
The boy was both ashamed of his predicament and frightened. "How can I get in, Ruth? I'd like to sneak downstairs into the sitting room and lie down by the sitting room fire and get warm." "You shall. Come in this way," commanded Ruth. "But, for pity's sake, don't fall!" "She'll find it out and lick me worse," said Curly, doubtfully. "She won't. The girls are asleep, I tell you."
With it was a note which said: "To replace the one you burned." There was no name signed, but he knew from whom it came. "This way, freshmen! This way!" "Over here now! No let-outs!" "Keep 'em together, Blink! Don't let any of 'em sneak away!" "Wood! Everybody bring wood!" "Look out for that fellow! He's a grind! He'll try to skip!" "Wood! Everybody get wood!"
It would be a fine thing for you, no doubt, if you could sneak round her behind my back! Don't I know you'd be all for old Sir Michael's will then, and I might die in a gutter, for you! But an egg, and an egg's fair sharing." "Have I said it was any other?" Asgill asked gloomily. "The old place is mine, and I'm minded to keep it."
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