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Miss Pritty was of a tender confiding nature, and felt it absolutely necessary to rest on somebody's bosom. She would rather have used a cat's or dog's than none. Aileen, being affectionate and sympathetic, had no objection. Nevertheless, not being altogether of angelic extraction, she was a little put out by the constant tremors of her friend.
"There, there, 'twas only a jest, of course," she soothed her. "But, really Marie, it is the dear, domestic little mouse like yourself that ought to be somebody's wife and that's the kind men are looking for, too." Marie gave a slow shake of her head. "Not the kind of man that is somebody, that does something," she objected; "and that's the only kind I could love.
"Will you tell us about those other adventures?" Burgess asked eagerly. "It's a sure thing that somebody's been pulling the wires, making you walk the tight rope, and somebody that knows everything you do. Any man on the force who could spot him would be made." "No, no," Pauline insisted, an uneasy remembrance of Harry's suspicions lending emphasis to her denial.
When Viviette had informed him of the youth's presence in the garden, he had exclaimed impatiently: "It ought to be somebody's business to go round the world occasionally with a broom and sweep away spiders like that." Viviette, mindful of the invective, received Lord Banstead with a smile of amusement. As she had two protectors against a fifth proposal of marriage, she stood her ground.
We judged they was studying up some kind of worse deviltry than ever. We turned it over and over, and at last we made up our minds they was going to break into somebody's house or store, or was going into the counterfeit-money business, or something.
It must have raised three feet since we crossed this afternoon." "I'll course there's danger, with all that snow coming out uh the mountains. And like as not Jack's in Shellanne roosting on somebody's pool table and telling it scary, instead uh staying at home looking after his stuff. Where yuh going, Bud?" "I'm going to ride down there," Thurston answered constrainedly.
Let a doctor that is due at the bedside at 4 o'clock, say, stay away till 6, and then come in and tell about being down on the South Side to see about somebody's having a sick baby, or to sew up a man that has been to a circus, and the cross patient that has been waiting for the doctor till he got mad, is better at once.
Fay was happy now, and that was one advantage gained, although her lodger was paying dearly for it with somebody's money. But here she drew the line, being quite determined not to spend any money on dress until Mr. Travers should come to her to relieve her doubts, and yet she knew very well that to be leading this easy idle life she was very poorly dressed.
"I suppose," he admitted gloomily, "that I've been raised to do pretty much as I please and the money I've spent has been given to me." The girl shook her head with conviction. "It ain't possible," she declared. "Why not?" "No son of Black Jack would live off somebody's charity." He felt the blood tingle in his cheeks, and a real anger against her rose. Yet he found himself explaining humbly.
"I opened my eyes wide, and said, 'That's all very pretty, what you say; but the mischief is, that, as I have not worked at my profession for more than fifteen years, I have no papers at all. He shrugs his shoulders, and says, 'You shall have your papers. That worries me; and I reply, 'If I have to steal somebody's papers, and change my name, I won't do it. But the brigand had his notions.
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