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"Not a bit," he answered, stoutly. "We're in for a long drought. Zephania told me so not half an hour ago." "Is Zephania a weather prophet?" "She's everything. She knows so much that she makes me ashamed of myself. And she never makes a mistake about the weather." Wade waited anxiously. "We-ll," said Eve, finally, "if you're sure it isn't going to rain, and Carrie really doesn't want me "
She looked provokingly up into his face and he looked fondly down into hers. "Don't you?" she repeated. "We-ll, I I don't know as I'd want to go so far as to say that. I presume likely her face might not stop a meetin'-house clock on a dark night, but "
I showed it to him because I used to live there. Don't be selfish, Archie. There's plenty of chances for you to make money. Get your pail, Thompson!" "We-ll," said Archibald grudgingly. "So long as it's not sure that Bowring can spare me the money, let him take over a third if he wants to." "Sure I do," grinned the prospective buyer, highly elated, "and much obliged to you, too, Mr. Archibald.
Judging by what I have seen and learned so far, I am likely to need a great deal of patience in this house, and I can't waste any. Mother has gone head over heels into this precious Ladies of Honor work of hers, hasn't she?" "We-ll, she's terrible interested in it, of course; but she's so smart anyhow, and here in Scarford she's got the chance she's been lookin' for."
"I don't see why he shouldn't sell them. Green cats ought to sell quickly enough, I should think. Were they green, honest and truly, Jed?" Mr. Winslow nodded. "They were that mornin'," he drawled, solemnly. "That morning? What do you mean?" "We-ll, you see, Maud, those kittens were into everything and over everything most of the time.
"I'm a good deal like a chameleon; I unconsciously change my color to suit my surroundings. When we first met I saw that you took me for one thing, and since then I've tried not to show you your mistake." "Why did you let me send you those silly books? Now that you have begun to tell the truth, keep it up. How many of them had you read?" "We-ll, I hadn't read any of them lately."
"We-ll, is dat so?" the yellow rascal drawled. "So youh-all's de new la'rd, eh? Well, ah'm de king o' de Sawdust Pile, an' mah house is mah castle. Git dat, Mistah La'rd?" Donald turned toward Nan. "I'm going to have trouble here, Nan. Please go in the house." "Proceed," she replied simply. "I have a most unwomanly and unladylike desire to see that beast manhandled."
"We-ll, that particular one got a wrong start and ended up by bein' a whale, but I shouldn't wonder if we could find a swordfish if we looked. Yes, here's one. Think that would do?" The child looked it over very carefully. "Yes," she said, "I think it would. If you're sure it would make the wind go right."
"I'm not going to lose that fish," mumbled Redmond sulkily, as he threw off his clothes, "I'll get him by gum! if I have to dive to the depths of Hell." "Say, now! don't be a fool!" cried Yorke, "that water's like ice, man! You'll get cramped, and then the two of us'll drown. We-ll, of all the idiots! George, by this time stripped to the buff, crept gingerly to the edge of the shelving bank.
How could that lightship help pitchin', I'd like to know?" Mr. Bloomer adjusted the tin cover on the can in which Martha had put the coffee, then he put the can in the pocket of his slicker. "We-ll, I tell you, Primmie," he drawled. "You see, we had pretty toler'ble long anchor chains on that craft and when the captain see how 'twas blowin' he let them chains out full length.
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