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"I'm not any fancy Colt expert, but I'm damned if I won't take a chance in that game with any man as totes a gun. Leastawise, of course, I wouldn't take no such advantage of a lame man." The effect would have been ludicrous but for its deadly significance.
All was now indistinguishable in the coach; but suddenly a movement occurred in the corner occupied by Boule de Suif and Cornudet; and Loiseau, peering into the gloom, fancied he saw the big, bearded democrat move hastily to one side, as if he had received a well-directed, though noiseless, blow in the dark. Tiny lights glimmered ahead. It was Totes.
Said another: "The waive note is good for twenty years and when you sign one you must either pay out or die out." Said one man: "My people want all they can get on credit, not thinking of the day of settlement. We must learn to bore with a small augur first. The black man totes a heavy bundle, and when he puts it down there is a plow, a hoe, and ignorance."
"Billy is cuttin' up his antics ag'in," said the Squire, finally. "First the limbs give way, and then the mind. It's Providence, I reckon. We're all a-gittin' old." "Why, you talk, Ichabod, as if Providence went around with a drink of dram in one hand and a stroke of palsy in t'other one," said Miss Jane. "It's the Old Boy that totes the dram.
Maybe I'll have a lady with me that you'll like to know. You'll be here to-morrow, won't you?" she finished anxiously. "Sure, if it's pleasant. Jerry totes me up here 'most every mornin'. They fixed it so he could, you know; and I bring my dinner and stay till four o'clock. Jerry's good to me he is!" "I know, I know," nodded Pollyanna.
"Two-gun," sneered a man who stood near the saloon door. "I wonder what he totes them two guns for?" The shooter heard and turned toward the man who had spoken, his lips wreathed satirically. "I reckon he wouldn't shoot nothin' with them," he said, addressing the man who had spoken. Several men laughed. The tall man who had revealed interest before now raised a hand, checking further comment.
"I suppose so, unless she totes herself off!" "The woman dumped her child on him! Well, well, the Colonel had something of the fool in him where women were concerned, only I looked after that!" "Mother," Isabelle retorted mischievously, "I am afraid you'll never be able to keep down the fool in us; Vick is pretty nearly all fool, the dear!"
"You one o' da bunch one o' da boys, hey? Good-a luck." So saying, Tony nodded, flashed his white teeth again, and seizing the handles of his barrow, trundled off his peanut oven, whistling soft and shrill. "Tony's only a guinney," Spike explained as they walked on again. "But he's white, Geoff 'n' say, he's a holy terror in a mix-up! Totes one o' them stiletto knives.
Then Sonny seein' it was all over, why, HE COME DOWN. He was wet ez a drownded rat, but wife rubbed him off an' give him some hot tea an' he come a-snuggin' up in my lap, thess ez sweet a child ez you ever see in yo' life, an' I talked to him ez fatherly ez I could, told him we was all 'Piscopals now, an' soon ez his little foot got well I was goin' to take him out to Sunday-school to tote a banner all his little 'Piscopal friends totes banners an' thet he could pick out some purty candles for the altar, an' he 'lowed immejate thet he'd buy pink ones.
"Listen, Hank. You know about this Hill. I've told you and Bob how he's got a fool bee in his bonnet, and is running around the Southwest looking for his father. The old man judging from his photograph, which Hill totes around in his pocket is a bigger freak than Hiram is. He's got a beak like a pelican, and is homely enough to stop a clock."
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