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Then Tarzan dropped lightly from an overhanging branch into their midst. When they realized that it was indeed their chief in the flesh, and no materialized spirit, they went mad with joy. "We were cowards, oh, Waziri," cried Busuli. "We ran away and left you to your fate; but when our panic was over we swore to return and save you, or at least take revenge upon your murderers.
The little Dahcotah was always quarrelling with the young bears; and on one occasion, being pretty hungry, a cub annoying him at the time very much, he deliberately shot the cub with his bow and arrow, and ate him up. This aroused the vengeance of the bears; they had a consultation among themselves, and swore they would kill both father and son.
But you mustn't spit on the floor, because we are rich people." Madam Johnsen began to cry. "And then he struck her on the head. 'Hold your tongue! he cried, and he cursed and swore at the child something frightful. 'I don't want to hear your infernal chatter! That's the sort he was. Life began to be a bit easier when he had drowned himself in the sewer.
"I could not make out, sir, who she was," said Murray's clerk, describing her grace's appearance and manner, "for she would not tell me her name; but she swore so dreadfully that I am sure she must be a lady of quality." Perhaps the Inns of Court may still shelter a few married ladies, who either from love of old-world ways, or from stern necessity, consent to dwell in their husbands' chambers.
Jim Lash, who swore he would always look after his friend! Thorne and Mercedes! All these people, who had been good to him and whom he loved, were poor. But now they would be rich. They would one and all be his partners. He had discovered the source of Forlorn River, and was rich in water. Yaqui had made him rich in gold.
He said, 'Swear first to be mine unreluctantly. Then I said, 'What is thy oath? He answered, 'I swear, when I swear, by the Identical. Thereupon I questioned him concerning the Identical, what it was; and he, not suspecting, revealed to me the mighty hair in his head now in the head of Shagpat, even that. So I swore by that to give myself to the possessor of the Identical, and flattered him.
Then he wrenched off a huge chew of tobacco whose rumination might check his impulse toward tempestuous language. He tried the hat on that night in the presence of his admiring wife, gritting curses under his breath, his skin prickling with resentment. He swore then that he would never wear it.
Dick swore softly under his breath at Coxon, and Alicia began to criticise Lady Perry's costume. Lady Eynesford followed up her triumph. "I hope all you Medlandites are satisfied now," she said. And Lady Eynesford was not the only person who found some satisfaction in this unfortunate incident, for when Daisy told Norburn about it, he remarked, with an extraordinary want of reason,
"I don't believe one word of it," she said, firmly. "I don't believe it. I wouldn't believe it was anything but your mean meddling if you swore it." "Did you ever!" gasped Mrs. Slogan; "after all the advice I've give the foolish girl!" "Well, I reckon that's beca'se you don't want to believe it, Sally," said Slogan, without any intention of abetting his wife.
Miss Gvinter swore to an affidavit when she came out in which she said in part: . . . The days that we had to stand on scaffolds and ladders to paint the dormitories, I was so weak from lack of food I was dizzy and in constant danger of falling.
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