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"Be you, now, really!" said the small boy, apparently struck with sudden and overwhelming admiration. "That is terribly good in you. Seems to me now I reckon I see two young uns 'long here somewhars, didn't I? Le' me see." "Oh, where, where?" cried Gypsy. "Oh, I'm so glad! Did the little boy have on a plaid jacket and brown coat?" "Waal, now, seems as ef 'twas somethin' like that."
Then suddenly she exclaimed in an excited voice: "They're goin' to bury somethin'! My land! What do you s'pose it is? Somethin' all done up in a bag!" She forced the binoculars into Lucy's hand. "You look and see if you can't make out." Lucy scanned the scene with mild inquisitiveness. "They have a canvas sack," she said, "and evidently they are trying to bury it."
Chin whiskers, too, wot were somethin like rotten seaweed. Oh, a 'eavenly specimen of a chap 'e were, I kin tell you!" "On the Saltfleet Road, eh?" interposed Cleek, rapidly, as the boy paused a moment for breath. "So? My midnight friend is doubtless sailing for foreign parts, as the safest place when coroner's evidence begins to get too hot for him. And what then, Dollops?"
But perhaps, sir, you've been thinkin', as I have, that even now it mayn't be too late to do somethin'." "Yes," said I, "I have. While you have been talking to me a multitude of ideas have thronged through my mind, disconnected and vague, certainly, but still capable perhaps of being worked into shape.
Good lack, boy!" she cried, noticing a deadly paleness on Gilbert's face "a-h-h-h, I begin to understand now. Look here, Gilbert! Git that nonsense out o' y'r head, jist as soon as you can. There's enough o' trouble ahead, without borrowin' any more out o' y'r wanderin' wits. I don't deny but what I was holdin' back somethin', but it's another thing as ever was.
The color came back to Susan's face in a flood, and frank delight chased the terror from her eyes. "Now we can do somethin' worthwhile." "I reckon you'll find you have to do something, Susan. You know very well I can't afford to hire a nurse now." "I don't want one." "But there's all the other work, too." "Work! Why, Mr.
Only the Speaker sat like a wax statue of himself, and glanced neither to the right nor to the left. "Harkness of Truro," said the clerk. "He's almost to Wells County again," whispered Bijah, excitedly. "I didn't callate he could do it. Will?" "Yes?" "Will you hear somethin'?"
"There ain't a livin' for us on the farm any more, and we got to do somethin'. If there was anything else I could do! But I've thought it out and thought it out, and I guess there ain't anything I can do but take boarders if I can get them." "I should think you'd find it rather pleasant on some accounts. Your boarders would be company for you," said Westover.
I've heard you say a dozen times you'd like to go abroad some winter. Now when the chance comes besides you can get your clothes made over there." "Couldn't you get somethin' over there?" inquired Mrs. Butler. "Besides, you've got two or three weeks here yet." "They wouldn't want a man around as a sort of guide and adviser, would they, mother?" put in Callum.
"'Twon't do for both of us to git killed an' leave no one to take the word to Lewis." "But why run any risk?" I anxiously demanded; for I feared he had some mad prank in mind which would betray our presence and perhaps stop our warning to the army. "We must l'arn somethin' as to how many o' the red skunks there be," he replied. "To venture near their camp will mean discovery.
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