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What better land than Arizona, on the high mesa where the air was clean and clear; where the keen August rains refreshed the sunburned grasses; where the light snows of winter fell but to vanish in the retrieving sun? If Dorothy loved this land, why should she leave it? Surely health meant more to her than the streets and homes of the East?
It bewildered her that she should desire to place her hands on that sunburned neck. In truth, she was far from robust, and the need of her body and mind was for strength. But she did not know it. She knew only that no man had ever affected her before as this one had, who shocked her from moment to moment with his awful grammar. "Yes, I ain't no invalid," he said.
"I suppose I shall have to confess that you have inspired my curiosity, Mr. Vane," she said. Austen's face was sunburned, but it flushed a more vivid red under the tan. It is needless to pretend that a man of his appearance and qualities had reached the age of thirty-two without having listened to feminine comments of which he was the exclusive subject.
Castile and Arizona don't look at things with the same eyes." She looked at him just then with very beautiful and scornful ones, at any rate. "I should hope not." "You see, we're living in the twentieth century up in the sunburned State," said Bucky, with smiling aplomb. "Indeed! And we poor Chihuahuans?"
Under them circumstances, and with the understanding that it didn't go no farther, maybe you might give me a glimpse of the lay of the land. Possibly I might have something to say that would help. I'm fairly white underneath, if I be sunburned. What do you think about it?" He didn't answer right off; seemed to be chewing it over. After a spell he spoke. "Mr.
A young lad whose sunburned face already bore the stamp of self-indulgence was stationed behind the butt with Lisle, and the latter was not favorably impressed with his appearance or conversation. "Look out," he cautioned by and by. "You were a little slow last time. They travel pretty fast." Lisle picked up his gun; he had used one in the West, though he was more accustomed to the rifle.
Of course," he added politely, "I don't suppose you can help it exactly, because even the sun is purple here, and perhaps you have got sunpurpled instead of sunburned." "May I ask," said Bobolink, rolling his purple eyes about, "if you came all this way on purpose to make remarks about me?" "No, I did n't," explained Martin, hurriedly.
But before he could say more Hawkeye reappeared and shouted: "Say, boys, Paw's old Horse died!" and he grinned joyfully, merely because he was the bearer of news. "Sappy, you grin so much your back teeth is gettin' sunburned," and the Head Chief eyed him sadly. "Well, it's so, an' I'm going to skin out his tail for a scalp. I bet I'll be the Injunest one of the crowd."
"Phil couldn't go," explained the unmarried and sunburned Evelyn, "he had a match on of eighteen holes with me." Mrs. Waring sighed. "I can't think what's got into the younger people these days that they seem so indifferent to religion. Your father's a vestryman, Phil, and I believe it has always been his hope that you would succeed him.
"If only I could be sure that you really loved me!" "I can prove it!" said Eustace proudly. "You know how scared I am of my mother. Well, for your sake I overcame my fear, and did something which, if she ever found out about it, would make her sorer than a sunburned neck! This house. She absolutely refused to let it to old Bennett and old Mortimer.
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