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"I knowed it," said Tucker, in a profuse perspiration, "I knowed it. Them blamed gals are all alike. Always knows what's best. Miss Polson! Miss Polson!" He shook her roughly, but to no purpose, and then running to the door, shouted eagerly for Susan.
They left wife and child, the old and infirm, every stick of property they could not carry, at our mercy. When we entered Karibib at five in the evening the non-combatant population were moving about the streets, or standing in best bib and tucker at their doors, calmly gazing at the trek-stained horsemen that sought the nearest water tanks. They had not the slightest fear of us.
Kennedy, Life of Wirt, i. 345. Spencer Roane, MS. Elliot, Debates, iii. 187. Ibid. iii. 406, 104, 248, 177. St. George Tucker, MS. Elliot, Debates, iii. 580. St. George Tucker, MS. Elliot, Debates, iii. 625. Wirt, 296-297. Also Spencer Roane, MS.
That's my d d luck, and yours too, I suppose." "I reckon you're right there," said Patterson gloomily. "But I thought you got clean away, went off in a ship" "Went off in a boat to a ship," interrupted Tucker savagely; "went off to a ship that had all my things on board everything. The cursed boat capsized in a squall just off the Heads.
Tucker was in bed, was snoring in a tranquillity that was the reverse of contagious. With her habitual cheerfulness she had adapted herself to her changed condition without fretting.
Seventy colonists came over on the Mary and Margaret, among them a fair number of men of note. Here were Captain Peter Wynne and Richard Waldo, "old soldiers and valiant gentlemen," Francis West, young brother of the Lord De La Warr, Rawley Crashaw, John Codrington, Daniel Tucker, and others. This is indeed an important ship.
Hastily gathering up a handful of coal he began heaving the pieces at Teddy. But Tucker was prepared for just such an emergency. >From his pockets he drew several chunks of coal, that he had picked up during his sprinting match around the car. He let these drive at Mr. Snowden, one after the other, not, however, throwing with sufficient force to do much damage.
Tucker in languid explanation, after the first greetings were over. "I knew he was not here," replied Captain Poindexter gently, as he drew the proffered chair towards her, "but this is business that concerns you both." He stopped and glanced upwards at the picture. "I suppose you know nothing of his business? Of course not," he added reassuringly, "nothing, absolutely nothing, certainly."
Her quick pride resented the scrutiny and recalled her courage, and it was with a slight coldness in her usual lazy indifference that she leaned over the counter and asked for the articles she wanted. The request was followed by a dead silence. Mrs. Tucker repeated it with some hauteur. "I reckon you don't seem to know this store is in the hands of the sheriff," said one of the loungers. Mrs.
Thomas Newcome received the deputation with great solemnity and politeness, crossed his legs, folded his arms, smoked his cheroot, and listened moat decorously, as now Potts, now Tucker, expounded to him; Bayham giving the benefit of his emphatic "hear, hear," to their statements, and explaining dubious phrases to the Colonel in the most affable manner.
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