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Luckily, Perez seemed to be satisfied, for he asked no further questions, but observed, "It's a good thing we've got a crowd to swear how we found him. There's a heap of folks in this town would be sayin' he set that fire if 'twa'n't for that." "Some of 'em will be sayin' it anyhow," remarked Jerry. "Some folks 'll say anything but their prayers," snapped Eri savagely.
"We thought the house was empty. We didn't know you was visitin' your your property." "Well, so far as that goes, neither did we. I don't wonder you expected to find burglars or tramps or whatever you did expect. We've had an awful time this night, ain't we, Emily?" "We certainly have," declared Miss Howes, with emphasis. "Yes, you see "
Those bridge plans, though Knowing this about his inventiveness, has it not occurred to you that his plans may not have been lost, after all?" "Look here, Mr. Leslie," said Griffith, rising with the angularity of a jumping-jack, "we've rubbed along pretty smooth since we got together last year; but Tom Blake is my friend." "Sit down! sit down!" insisted Mr. Leslie.
"We can't condemn it until we've tried it," said Gabriel thoughtfully, and he went on after a moment: "The terrible thing for us about the negroes is that they are so grave a responsibility so grave a responsibility. Of course, we aren't to blame we didn't bring them here; and yet I sometimes feel as if we had really done so."
Even now, after Duff and Ashby had sighted them, Moore and Bodson halted twice to light matches and examine the trail that their keen eyes had discovered as moving westward from the gully. "Now, I reckon we've got the general direction," muttered Rafe Bodson when, after having once more discovered the tracks he turned and got the general course. "We know the way to head."
The only thing we've got to do to-night is to make absolutely sure that all those fool letters he wrote to Lollie have been destroyed." "You've got them?" said the girl quickly. "I had them?" said the colonel, "and I burnt them all except one when the transfer was completed. And the question is, gentlemen," he said, "shall we burn the last?"
We've set still and let the Devil have his way. We've talked and talked, but what have we done? Nothin'! Nothin' at all; and now the grip of Satan is tighter on the town than it ever has been afore. The Lord set us a watch to keep and we've slept on watch. And now there's a trap set for every young man in this c'munity.
"Well that it's no worse, boy," observed Freeman, "for we've got no medicine-chest to fly to like that lucky Short-Blue fleet." "That's true, Jim," responded Martin; "I wish we had a Gospel smack with our fleet, for our souls need repairing as well as our bodies." "There you go," growled Stubley, flinging down a just finished fish with a flap of indignation.
Some days after the early morning tea Lord Holme said to his wife: "I say, Vi, we've got nothing on the first, have we?" There was a perceptible pause before she replied. "Yes, we have. We've accepted a dinner at Brayley House." Lord Holme looked exceedingly put out. "Brayley House. What rot!" he exclaimed. "I hate those hind-leg affairs. Why on earth did you accept it?"
Then Moran breaks in 'Expect, be blowed! What the do you expect now we've got yer to rights; are we going to let you off after knocking over Daly? No dashed fear, mister, we'll serve you the same way as you served him, as soon as we've had some grub and another glass or two of your grog. You've got some fairish stuff here. 'Why, Moran, says Mr.
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