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I don't know why he wants to have them in his power, but it's quite evident that their plans depend on that for success, and our best plan, as long as we're in the dark this way, and don't know the answer to all these puzzling things, is to keep things as they are. I'm convinced that they can't do anything that need worry us much as long as we have Bessie and Zara safe and sound."

The two gamblers watched the little boat rocking along till it was but a black fleck in the midst of the weltering brown waters. "I don't reckon any one'll drap down to-day," Slip muttered, looking up the river. "We'll keep our eyes open," Buck replied. "You needn't to worry, you're plumb worn out, Slip. Git to bed, now, an' I'll slick up around." It was a cold, dry gale.

He threw away his cigar and got up laughing, and as Val also rose Lawrence gently slapped him on the back. "I know what you're driving at that you've not forgotten that small indiscretion of yours, or ceased to regret it. Don't you worry, Val! You always were one of the worrying sort, weren't you? But you need never refer to it again, and I won't if you don't." Surely a generous, a handsome offer!

A fact which the unobservant Eddie noted with approval. "Well," he said as cheerfully as he could, "you must hope for the best, Mrs. Sharp." "Sid says we've only got it in one place. But perhaps he's only saying it, so as I shouldn't worry. But you know what them inspectors are; they don't lose nothin' by it. It don't matter to them if you starve all winter!" Suddenly she began to cry.

But he certainly knows something about it, and enough to make him worry. That's what Aaron Grafton is doing worrying. And he's worrying about something that ought to be in the jewelry shop and isn't. Now, what is it?" This, very evidently, was something for Colonel Ashley to discover, and with all his skill he set himself to this task.

And the Squire, says he to me, `We've a notion of talking a little to your Mr Elliott, and says he, `We wouldn't begrudge him a thousand dollars cash down, and no mistake. So now don't worry any about the minister. He's all right, and worth his pay any day. That's all I've got to say," and Mr Snow opened the door and walked out.

Therefore, it is not wise to hear and remember the unkind things that others may say of us." Pythagoras was an ancient philosopher, but his words express modern scientific truths. Worry: Worrying is perhaps the most common and the worst of our mental sins. Worry is like a cancer: It eats in and in. It is destructive of both body and mind.

She starts immediately after the ceremony and it seems to me that it would be a pious notion to throw rice and old shoes after her." "Why, Carl! You don't want to maim her, do you?" "I wouldn't mind. If it hadn't been for my ostrich-like digestion, I wouldn't have had anything to worry about by this time. However, if you insist, I will throw the rice and let you heave the shoes.

"It would really be taking a great load of worry from you, sir," put in Rupert eagerly, thrusting himself abreast of Nealie and leaning on his stick while he talked. "A large family, as we are, would be a valuable asset in a new country, while here we are only an encumbrance and a nuisance. Besides, we should like to be with our father."

You have to do better than this. You'll never get along if you act that way." She made no reply, and the depth of her silent grief filled him with strange sympathies. "Don't cry," he continued soothingly; "everything will be all right. I told you that. You needn't worry about anything." Jennie made a great effort to recover herself, and began to dry her eyes.