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"Stop!" cried Robert, "I know the rest." "Well, Phoebe told me all about what she see, and she told me she'd met her lady almost directly afterward, and somethin' had passed between 'em, not much, but enough to let her missus know that the servant what she looked down upon had found out that as would put her in that servant's power to the last day of her life.
"Ev'rybody about here is rough, or dirty, or mean, or rich, or proud, or somethin'," continued the dying man, in a thin yet earnest voice. "It's all as good as I deserve; but my heart's ached sometimes to look at somebody that would keep me from b'leevin' that ev'rything was black an' awful. And I've seen her. Can I just touch my finger to your dress?
"'Want to see the officer, shouted a voice which I knew to be Desborough's. "Somethin' very partick'lar to tell him, I guess." "Permission having been granted, the canoe came rapidly up to the side, and in the next minute, the tall heavy form of the settler stood distinctly defined against the lake, as he stepped on the gun-wale of the boat.
You hain't never ben, I says, 'an' now you're down here you may jest as well see somethin' while you got a chanst, I says. Up to that time" he remarked, as it were in passing, "she'd ben somewhat prejuced 'ginst theaters, an' " "Wa'al," Mrs. Bixbee broke in, "I guess what we see that night was cal'lated " "You hold on," he interposed. "I'm tellin' this story. You had a chanst to an' wouldn't.
There are seven camels. Let us each take one; but before we go we must eat and drink the other three. I'm starving." "Pitch on a plan, and I'll pitch into it," rejoined Terence. "I'm ready for anything, from pitch and toss to manslaughter." "Stay, Master Terence," interrupted the old sailor. "Av coorse ye are afther wantin' to do somethin', an' thin to think aftherwards why ye did it.
"The railroad's fixed 'em," said the manager, indignantly, but sotto voce; "I've found that out. Hilary Vane had the word passed around town that if they came, somethin' would fall on 'em. The Tredways and all the people who own factories served notice on their men that if they paid any attention to this meeting they'd lose their job. But say, the people are watchin' you, just the same."
"We saw him this morning. Dolly thinks a lot of him." "Oh, is that so?" said Bill Burns. He looked at Dolly, then bent over and whispered to Bessie, "He's welcome to her." Then he spoke aloud again. "I may be running over to see Walt one of these days. He and I are pretty good friends for cousins. Seems to me he told me somethin' about an ice-cream festival over there at the Methodist Church.
"'I donno but it does, she says, 'but I don't mind; I'm so thankful to see somethin' around that's little an' young. "That sort o' landed in my heart. It's just what I'd been thinkin' about 'em. "'Little, young things, s'I, sort o' careless, 'make a lot o' racket, you know.
"It's all up with Henderson!" he cried, as Catherine approached. "He's got the malery, an' he says he's dyin'." "That's no sign he's dying, because he says so," retorted Catherine. "He wants to see yeh," panted Waite, mopping his big ugly head. "I think he's got somethin' particular to say." "How long has he been down?" "Three days; an' yeh wouldn't know 'im."
He was always wondering where the next spurt of blue or pink flame would break through the darkness, and the popping of the shots formed a not unpleasant sound in the night. "Comin' closer, comin' closer, Paul!" whispered Shif'less Sol. "One o' them bullets flyin' in the dark may hit somethin' putty soon." Sol was a prophet. A hunter not far away uttered a low cry.
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