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'They seem to be with you. Pearls, too, and such fine ones! Here, Priscilla, take them; they're your property. Priscilla put her hands behind her: 'No, indeed, Dick, they are of no use to me. Keep them, please; they may help to remind you of what I have said. 'It's awfully kind of you, said Dick, looking really touched. 'Then since you put it in that way thanks, I will, Priscilla.
"Because I have seen lots of men that don't, and they're the fellows that need a little help, don't you think so?" Bill squirmed a little uneasily. "You can't keep an eye on all the fools unless you round 'em up in corral," he grunted. "No. But a man can keep from thinking more of a little tickling in his stomach than he does of the life of his fellowman."
That night, when Nigel came in from Sennoures, she said to him: "What is the meaning of those tassels made of shells that Egyptians sometimes wear round their necks?" "What sort of shells?" he asked. "Cowries." "Cowries oh, they're supposed to be a charm against the evil eye and bad spirits. Where have you seen one?" "On a donkey-boy up the Nile, at Luxor." She changed the conversation.
They were on one of the big automobiles, and it stopped, so they got off. I told 'em maybe their folks would be looking for them," went on Tom, who was older than Flossie and Freddie. "But they seem to think it's all right." "Well, they're lost, as sure as anything," declared the cook. "But it's best to keep 'em here until their folks can come after 'em.
"Don't trifle, dear! You know what I mean. Will you promise?" "I'll promise to submit the point to you, and let you do the yielding. As for me, I shall be adamant. Nothing I like better." "They're dreadful, even that poor, good young fellow, who's so different from all the rest; he's awful, too, because you feel that he's a martyr to them."
It makes a heap of difference who your company is, too. Those punchers wouldn't take a chance at me now for a million dollars." "No, they're some haidstrong, but they ain't plumb locoed," agreed Mac. Fifteen minutes later Helen drew up at the line corner. "We'll part company here, Mr. Bannister. I don't think there is any more danger from my men." "Before we part there is something I want to say.
But there's no knowing: it isn't every queer-looksed thing as Old Harry's had the making of I mean, speaking o' toads and such; for they're often harmless, like, and useful against varmin. And it's pretty much the same wi' you, as fur as I can see. Though as to the yarbs and stuff to cure the breathing, if you brought that sort o' knowledge from distant parts, you might ha' been a bit freer of it.
We're as well acquainted with the crabs and stranded jelly-fish as we are with the children digging in the sand and the people sitting under umbrellas. I think they're always the same, all of them." The Colonel left the talk to the young people.
Presently John March arrived, with a dignity in his gait and an energy in his eye that secretly amused the president of the road. John looked at his watch with an apologetic smile. "I supposed you had gone some place to get Mr. Fair," said Garnet. "He's in Jeff-Jack's office; they're coming over together." John busied himself with his papers to veil his immense satisfaction.
Why, this was John Flint, the kindly bug-hunter all Appleboro loved, "that good and kind and Christian man, our brother John Flint, sometimes known as the Butterfly Man." "Now, don't you worry any at all, parson," he was saying. "There's nothing to be afraid of. I'll take care of myself, and I'll get those letters if they're in existence. I've got to get them.
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