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Burke adjusted her glasses and gazed interestedly about the room at some pictures and decorations which Maxwell had placed in position, and inquired: "Who is the plaster lady and gentleman standin' on the mantelpiece?" "The Venus de Milo, and the Hermes of Praxiteles." "Well, you know, I just can't help preferrin' ladies and gentlemen with arms and legs, myself.
Must have hurried some they tell me he was settin' way down in front alongside of Alvy Hopkins's gal, and when Airley hollered out she screeched and clutched on to Al, and Al said somethin' he hadn't ought to and tore off one of them pink gew-gaws she was covered with. He was the maddest man I ever see. Some of the club was crowded inside, behind the seats, standin' up to see the show.
Did ye want me not to see him, for' we were standin' talkin' in the dhark, outside the veranda av Bragin's quarters 'you'd betther tell me to shut me eyes. Onless I'm mistaken, he's come now. "An', sure enough, the Corp'ril man was walkin' to us, hangin' his head down as though he was ashamed av himsilf. "'Good-night, Mrs.
It's as legitimate a deal as ever I see; perfect case of supply and demand supply for one and demand for two. As I said afore, I'm the one. "'By thunder! he growls, standin' up, 'I'll show you "I stood up, too. He was fat and flabby and I was thin and wiry. We looked each other over. "'I wouldn't, says I. 'You're under the doctor's care, you know.
Mitchell never had a length o' seasoned wood in his store: he can't afford the capital. But to my mind he can take him as a workman shape a boat better than Wyatt ever did yet." "And to mine," Cai agreed. "The cunning of it, too! He to take the prize from her under your nose and you standin' by and lookin' foolish.
"And, supposin' I accept, to which of you must I write?" "Me," said 'Bias with great promptitude. "Not at all." Cai turned in wrath on his friend. "I do think you might help, instead of standin' there and " "Can't I accept both?" suggested Mrs Bosenna sweetly.
Patsey declared, still smarting over the indignity of being run over, and stood upon, that Danny should not get a knife at all, but Mrs. Watson interposed for her latest born by saying: "O Patsey, dear, don't be hard on him. He was just that overjoyed at seein' Pearl, he never noticed what he was standin' on; anything would ha' done him just as well as you."
"Oh! dreadfully, sir 'specially me; though I must in dooty say that you four gentleman was as bold as brass. It quite relieved me when I saw your tall figurs standin' at the mouth o' your cavern, an' the muzzles o' your four double-guns that's eight shots with your glaring eyes an' pale cheeks behind them!"
"When I first saw him, I was standin' with the butt of my rifle on the log, my hand graspin' the barrel, and as I caught it up suddenly to load, the string of my powder-horn caught between the muzzle and the ramrod, broke, and the horn fell to the ground. Here was a fix for a hunter to be in.
So I took it from 'im, and blowed it myself three times as he wanted me. To think o' me standin' by my own 'usband's dyin'-bed and blowin' a whistle! "When I'd done, he says, 'That's all right; he knows I'm comin' now. But it'll take a long time to gather all them sheep. "For a bit he was quite still, and both me and Mrs.
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