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"Shucks, Ty!" she exclaimed, catching him by the sleeve with the impluse to rouse him, to awaken him, as it were, to his own old familiar identity; "ye ain't 'feared o' that thar snaggle-toothed skeer-crow in yander; he would be plumb comical ef he didn't look so mean-natured an' sech a hyper-crite." He gazed at her, his eyes eloquent with pain.
They were respectable, farm- looking men, between forty and fifty; one had on a coat and hat, the other a cap and jacket. "Good evening," I said in Welsh. "Good evening," they replied in the same language, looking inquiringly at me. "What is the name of this place?" said I. "It is called Ty gwyn," said the man of the hat. "On account of its colour, I suppose?" said I.
"Have I not told you, mother, how we met at Albany, and of what occurred on the river." I had not spoken of that adventure in my letters, because I was uncertain of the true state of Anneke's feelings, and did not wish to raise expectations that might never be realized. "And of our going to Ravensnest in company, and of all that happened at Ravensnest after our return from Ty."
He may have thought better of this presently, for he was in great haste to be gone when Tyler Sudley returned, and to his amazement in a counterpart frame of mind, charging Nehemiah with the responsibility of the disaster. It was strange to Laurelia that she, who habitually strove to fix her mind on religious things, should so relish the aspect of Ty Sudley in his secular rage on this occasion.
Seeing the door of one of the houses open I peeped in, and a woman who was sitting knitting in the interior rose and came out to me. I asked the name of the place. The name which she told me sounded something like Ty Capel Saer the House of the Chapel of the Carpenter. I inquired the name of the river in the valley.
He hooked his forefinger in the pocket of my army-shirt, led me to one side, and breathed in my ear impressively these words: "He can out-buck anything in America!" "Going, going, going at twent ty four dollars and a half, gen " "Twenty-seven!" I shouted, in a frenzy. "And sold!" said the auctioneer, and passed over the Genuine Mexican Plug to me. I could scarcely contain my exultation.
Poor soul, it's pitiful to see her! it went through me like a knife. What! are you there, my pretties!" she cried, flumping down on the stones as the colonel's two little ones came running out. "Bless your pretty hearts, you'll come and say a word to old Mother Bantem, won't you?" "What's everybody tying about?" says the little girl in her prattling way. "I don't like people to ty.
When she reached home, she so effectually made up for lost time in the vigor with which she attacked the Saturday cleaning that Mrs. Getz, with unusual forbearance, decided not to tell her father of her insubordination. Tillie wrote her first letter to Miss Margaret, ty stealth, at midnight.
I had broken my bayonet prying the dug-out door off and had my gun up-ended clubbed. When I saw that bomb coming, I bunted at it like Ty Cobb trying to sacrifice. It was the only thing to do. I choked my bat and poked at the bomb instinctively, and by sheer good luck fouled the thing over the parapet. It exploded on the other side. "Blimme eyes," says Jerry, "that's cool work.
Most of them had the tact to perceive that the invitation was dictated by regard for decency, and not by a wish that it should be accepted, and gave the simplest excuse for not attending the funeral. But Ty, Prince of Yen, the most powerful and ambitious of them all, declared that he accepted the emperor's invitation.
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