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I said in a low tone, for I was afraid now that I had alarmed the sentries on either side; but though Joeboy's load on one side bumped against my companion sentry, he was so utterly wearied out that he did not stir. "Um? Idiot?" said Joeboy. "Boss Val going to be hungry. Joeboy hungry. Been to get all these." "What are they forage-bags?" "Um!" he said. "But where did you get them whose are they?"
"I thought Uncle Jack was not a Tory," said I to my father the next day. My father, who cared nothing for politics, opened his eyes. "Are you a Tory or a Whig, papa?" "Um!" said my father, "there's a great deal to be said on both sides of the question. You see, my boy, that Mrs.
I ain' ax um no questions, 'cause thuh's somethin' 'bout um makes me feel's if I ain' got no right to look at um even." The porter thought a moment. "I don' believe it'll do yuh any good, suh, to try to shine up to tha' young lady. She ain' the sawt, I can tell yuh that. I done see too many guhls in ma time " "What are you talking about? I'm not trying to shine up to her.
On the bridge he encountered three dark figures, which, upon inspection, resolved themselves into Old Man Bogle, Deacon Pettybone, and Elder Hooper. "Scattergood," said the elder, "somethin's happened." "Somethin' 'most allus does." "This here's special and horrifyin'." "Havin' to do with what?" "That coffee gal, that baggage, that hussy!" "Um!... Sich as?"
Del Norte sat up, his pale face contorted with fury. "Um better stay still," said the redskin, turning the muzzle of the rifle on the Mexican. "Quick, Inza!" urged Frank "cut these ropes! Set me free! It's our opportunity!" Immediately she stooped and obeyed. Frank rose as quick as possible. "Red Ben," he declared, "you'll not lose by this act of manhood! I'll remember you."
"I allus sez, in my clenching way, that I doan't care a farden damn what happens to my bones, if my everlasting future be well thought on by passon. So long as I catch the eye of un an' see um beam 'pon me to church now an' again, I'm content with things as they are."
"Um!" observed Mildmay, figuring upon a piece of paper that he drew from his pocket; "it is a goodish step from here to there! roughly, about seven thousand miles, as the crow flies. As to how long it will take us to get there; we can do the distance in sixty hours, by going aloft into the calm belt, shutting ourselves in, and going full speed ahead. Otherwise "
They must like snuff if they followed the natural bent of their noses. "Yes, Katie, as I was saying, you little know how your mother loves you." "Yes um, I do. She loves me more 'n the river, and the sky, and the bridge. My papa loves me too, only but he don't say nuffin' 'bout it." "Yes, yes; just so," said Miss Polly, who talked to the simplest infants just as she did to grown people.
She could wear them with grey suede slippers and they would be so soft and pretty." "Um not very lively looking, are they? You see I want something to cheer her up. She well she's not been very well lately and I thought something oh something with a lot of dash in it, you know, would just fill the bill. But look here. We'll take both. Sure that's the way out of it.
"What are you going to do with the paraffin?" asked Bickley. Bastin coloured through his tan and replied awkwardly: "Paraffin is very good to keep away mosquitoes if one can stand the smell of it upon one's skin. Not that I have brought it here with that sole object. The truth is that I am anxious to experiment with a lamp of my own design made um of native wood," and he departed in a hurry.
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