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"Better leave him here till he gets over it," said another. "That'll be the best way." "Who'd have thought a little dodger like that would upset him?" said somebody else. "By George we'll all get found out, through him." "Whads mare?" said Frank, meaning to ask, "What is the matter?" but somehow he could not make his organs of articulation go off right. "'Zis wachecall drung?" "Can ye walk?"
Stanley, Stanley, it would be mercy to kill me, she broke out again. 'Now, Radie, listen to reason, and don't make a noise; you know we agreed, you must go, and I can't go with you. Lake was cooler by this time, and his sister more excited than before they went out. 'I used to be brave; my courage I think is gone; but who'd have imagined what's before me?
I'd forgotten. Why don't you move with the times? You're always thinking of something that's been dead and buried for years." "You remember you said you thought it was those Kay's chaps who did it. I've been thinking it over, and I believe you're right. You see, it was probably somebody who'd been to camp before, or he wouldn't have known that dodge of loosing the ropes." "I don't see why.
If I wasn't too old would try to learn it yet by jimminey, doesn't it say nice things though?" The forms being filled in and payments being made Mr. Spriggins reluctantly arose to depart, but another glance at the motto and he broke forth afresh. "It's just the thing that old Parson Simes was speakin' of last Sunday gracious me who'd a thought there was so much religion in the insurance business.
Who'd have thought it?" gasped the huge Stuart, flinging himself back on the seat in the compartment and staring out of the window as the train moved away from the station. "Henri, you're a wizard, a conjuror, a most mysterious and clever individual.
"You'll soon git used to it, and make your 40 miles a day like the rest of us, carrying your bed-clothes and family groceries with you. It's all in gittin' used to it, as the man said who'd bin skinnin' eels for 40 years, and that now they didn't mind it a bit." "Well, le's jog along," said Si. "We ought to git there in another hour.
"Heavens," I cried, seeing that in his zeal for doing this professionally he was making himself absurd; and Tommy burst into a hearty laugh, saying: "Gezabo, there isn't a girl in a million who'd think of those places, and if she did she wouldn't credit us with enough sense to find 'em. Call off your bloodhounds! There's no message for us, that's a cinch!
What for should I be making inquiries about my guests? YOU never dropped a word of such a thing! Who'd have listened if I had? It was just Lord Tulliwuddle this and Lord Tulliwuddle that from morning to night since ever he came to the Castle." "Duncan's so simple-minded," groaned Mrs. Gallosh. "And what were you, I'd like to know? What were you?" retorted her justly incensed spouse.
There's a railroad president at Isaac Worthington's who'd like to git at him to-day, guess you know that, Steve Merrill." Mr. Wetherell didn't know, but he was given no time to say so. "Steve Merrill, of the Grand Gulf and Northern. He hain't here to see Worthington; he's here to see Jethro, when Jethro's a mind to. Guess you understand." "I know nothing about it," answered Wetherell, shortly. Mr.
Everyone shook hands with me and congratulated me, and I think my head was turned a bit. But I'd been thinking for some time of doing a rash thing. I was newly married then, d'ye ken, and I was thinkin' it was time I made something of myself for the sake of her who'd risked her life wi' me. So that night I went home to her wi' a stern face. "Nance!" I said.
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