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"I've told her all the yarns I could think of about people turning up after they was buried and the like." "What'd she say?" queried the skipper eagerly, between his bites. "Told me not to talk like that," said the mate; "said it showed a want o' trust in Providence to hint at such things. Then I told her what you asked me about the locket, only I made it a bracelet worth ten pounds."
As soon as the attorney was gone, both Martin and his mother attempted to console and re-assure poor Anty, but they did not find the task an easy one. "Oh, Mrs Kelly," she said, as soon as she was able to say anything, "I'm sorry I iver come here, I am: I'm sorry I iver set my foot in the house!" "Don't say so, Anty, dear," said the widow. "What'd you be sorry for an't it the best place for you?"
"Oh! so that's the way the thing runs, is it, kid?" sneered the man; and then changing his manner again he went on to demand harshly: "What if we don't mean to clear out? Supposin' we takes a notion this here is comfy enough fur two ducks that'd like to stay to breakfast, and share yer stock o' grub? What'd ye do 'bout that, younker?"
"Gordy," said the promenader with the prominent teeth, "Gordy." "Hello," said the man with the stained shirt thickly. Prominent teeth shook his finger pessimistically at the pair, giving the woman a glance of aloof condemnation. "What'd I tell you Gordy?" Gordon stirred in his seat. "Go to hell!" he said. Dean continued to stand there shaking his finger. The woman began to get angry.
"Listen!" said Paul, a little sharply, as though he had no sympathy with such talk. They strained their hearing for possibly a full minute. Then Bobolink, who liked to talk, could no longer hold in. "What'd you think you heard, Paul?" he whispered. "A little rustling sound just alongside the brush you pointed out," the scout master replied. "But you didn't get it again; did you?" urged the other.
Old Heck continued talking as if to himself. "What'd I tell you?" Chuck exulted. "Shut up! He's confessin' let him alone an' he'll get it out of his conscience sooner or later!" "Had a what?" Parker urged sympathetically. "Maybe you didn't have one maybe you only imagined you did!"
"Well, I thought maybe just as a surprise " "I won't do it. I had mighty hard work to catch this c'lection, and I'm not goin' to give it away to anybody, I don't care how surprised they'd be! Anyway, I'd never get any thanks for it; they wouldn't know how to handle 'em, and they'd get all stung up: and what'd be the use, anyhow?
"That little controversy on the Georgia came out in your favor, but you can't rile me. I want to let by-gones be by-gones. I'm a peaceable man. You've beat me, and I'm willing to say so. Who robbed your cabin? What'd you lose? Speak up." "We lost some small papers, entrusted to this boy, here.
The prevailin' wind takes it on to the Johnsons them Swedes that took my Madeline! I hear it! Oh, nights when I can't help myself and in the sunshine I can see it pollen soft golden dust to make new life goin' on to them, and them too ignorant to know what's makin' their corn better! I want my field to myself. What'd I work all my life for?
His daughter loosened her arm from round him and turned her face toward Kurt. Then he imagined he saw two blue stars, sweetly, strangely shining upon him. "Father, it was our friend from the Bend," she said. "He happened along." Anderson suddenly changed to the cool, smiling man Kurt remembered. "Howdy, Kurt?" he said, and crushed Kurt's hand. "What'd you do to him?"
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