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Steele herself was no wan and hopeless-looking invalid. She was as buxom as Janet, and Janet was as well built a girl, even, as Laura Belding. The invalid had shrunken none in body or limbs. She owned, too, a very attractive smile, and she held out both hands to greet her young visitors. "I am delighted!" she said in a strong, quick voice, which matched her smile and bright glance perfectly.
"It's a shame an' a scandal," others said, "that a young fella who can't read his own name shud marry sich a nice girl wi' sich larnin'." Jamie made some defense but it wasn't convincing. "Doesn't the Bible say maan an' wife are wan?" he asked Mrs. Gilmore in discussing the question with her. "Aye." "Well, when Anna an' me are wan won't she haave a thrade an' won't I haave an education?"
"That's me," said Dan MacMorrogh; and he rose and let himself out, with the younger brother to lock the door behind him. The door-keeping attended to, the younger brother drew closer into the circle. "There's wan thing," he said, looking furtively at Eckstein. "I was in Copah this day: I got the buckboards for Misther Colbrith.
Among them, sitting on the deck, and leaning against a gun carriage, with her arm thrown round the neck of a little boy, was a young woman, though wan and ill, still possessing that peculiar beauty occasionally seen among several of the tribes of Africa.
Pao-yue quickly stood still, and gazed, with all intentness, at the landscape for a time. But just as he was proceeding on his way, he caught sight of some one on the "Wasp waist" wooden bridge, advancing in his direction, with an umbrella in hand. It was the servant, despatched by Li Wan, to request lady Peng to go over.
Now ye can't tell him that ye spent th' summer with wan hook on th' free lunch an' another on th' ticker tape, an' so ye go back three. That needn't discourage ye at all, at all. Here's yer chance to mix up, an' ye ask him if he was iver in Scotland. If he wasn't, it counts ye five.
"Paste me wan, Scotchie," he said. "'Tis owin' to me." Without a word the Scotchman gave the blow, catching the little man full in the chest and knocking him half a car-length. That was enough. Gallagher picked himself up out of the gravel, the lust of battle hot upon him.
'Her turrets 'll be alfalfa, she'll have three inches iv solid timithy to th' water line, an' wan inch iv th' best clover below th' wather line, he says. 'Did ye iver see an eight-inch shell pinithrate a bale iv hay? he says. 'I niver did, says Cap Brice. 'Maybe that was because I niver see it thried, he says. 'Be that as it may, says Gin'ral Shafter, 'ye niver see it done.
A wan smile flitted across Mark's face, and a stiff little drawing of the old twinkle about eyes and lips: "I think he'll turn up some time." The lawyer eyed him keenly: "Mark, I believe you've got something up your sleeve. I believe that kid knows something and you won't let him tell. Where is he?"
But one, who wore a red star on his forehead, danced but ill, and looked pale and wan. That is all I have to say. So the next night the princess went with the dancing-girl to the tree, where, hiding themselves behind the trunk, they waited to see what might happen.
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