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"Oh," she sighed, "I thought it was the beginnin' of May. Didn't you come up here in May?" "Yes." "Well, then Or, mebbe that's one o' them tormentin' dreams; they do pester so! What did you come for?"

She sat clasping the great doll, the pinks, and the pink cup and saucer before her on the table a lone little weak child, opposing her single individuality against so many, and to her own hurt and horror and self-condemnation, and she did not weaken; but all at once her head drooped on one side, and her father caught her. "There! you can all stop tormentin' this blessed child!" he cried.

"There isn't anything goin' to happen to Roscoe, and you're just tormentin' yourself about nothin'. Aren't you EVER goin' to bed?" Sheridan halted. "All right, mamma," he said, with a vast sigh. "Let's go up." And he snapped off the electric light, leaving only the rosy glow of the fire. "Did you speak to Roscoe?" she yawned, rising lopsidedly in her drowsiness.

"And goodness only knows if the kettle 'ull be boilin', itself," she added in a distracted undertone, "an' I'm afther forgetting my big aperon upstairs, an' if I go an' black my best dress me a'nt 'ull be the death o' me." "Aisy now, don't be tormentin' yourself that way," cried Pat soothingly.

I'm dreamin', Smoke, an' you're just snoopin' around in my dream an' tormentin' me with system. If you love me, if you sure do love me, you'll just yell, 'Shorty! Wake up! An' I'll wake up an' start breakfast." The third night of play, as Smoke laid his first bet, the game- keeper shoved fifteen dollars back to him. "Ten's all you can play," he said. "The limit's come down."

He took pertic'ler delight in abusin' an' tormentin' Dave, an' the poor little critter was jest as 'fraid as death of him, an' good reason. Father was awful hard, but he didn't go out of his way; but 'Lish never let no chance slip.

He rubbed his face frantically with the soiled sleeve of his shirt, spitting out the scales and blood that hat lodged between his dark-colored teeth. "Ye're always a tormentin' her, Ben," said Longman; "now if ye was only satisfied to let her alone, I air a thinkin' that she wouldn't bother ye. Tess air a good girl, for Myry says as how she can hush the brat when he air a howlin' like a nigger."

"Well, sit down, an' don't offer to say a word unless you hear me goin' out. Sure maybe I disremember it altogether." Roseen sat down obediently and fixed her eyes on the old man's face. "Wanst upon a time," began Dan, with a twinkle in his eye, "the pigs were swine." Roseen gave an impatient wriggle. "Well, well, it's too bad to be tormentin' ye that way. I'll begin right now.

In great perturbation Walter swiftly patrolled the town in search of Justus; unprecedented developments were imminent, and he hardly dared face the emergency without his valiant backer at hand. Justus had disappeared as utterly as if the night had swallowed him up. "Consarn the tormentin' critter!" exclaimed Walter, mopping his brow as he stood at the little gate of Mrs.

I was still busy over the cookery, when Bob came into the forecastle, and observed: "I say, Harry, there's that spiteful devil still alongside, and with a most onchristian longing to make a breakfast off of your old shipmate, I'll go bail! Couldn't we contrive somehow to put a stopper on his tormentin' purpensities?"