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Fraser shook his head somewhat despondently. "I'm not much of a swimmer," said he. "But you'd go in for anybody if you saw them drowning?" persisted Miss Tyrell, in a surprised voice. "I don't know, i'm sure," said Fraser. "I hope I should." "Do you mean to say," said Miss Tyrell, severely, "that if I fell into the river here, for instance, you wouldn't jump in and try to save me?"
While they waited, they walked about the room, looking at the pictures on the walls. "See," said Dotty; "there is Abby Grant, with her hair frizzed. I forgot about the wheels, or I wouldn't have come! O, see that little boy; hands as big as my father's! Here comes Jennie Vance; I'm going to call her in." Dotty had forgotten her contempt for her lively friend.
I told the officer that I could not march on account of my inflamed legs, but he said that if I had got out of jail my legs would not have bothered me much, and he reckoned that it would do me good to take a walk anyway. And he would put us d d Yanks where we wouldn't bother him any more.
"I meant to tell you, Keith," said she, somewhat nervously, "that I had signed an engagement to remain at the Piccadilly Theatre till Christmas next. I knew you wouldn't mind I mean, you would be considerate, and you would understand how difficult it is for one to break away all at once from one's old associations.
There is any quantity of rubbish in 'Scorpion Cove, and any amount of disease-breeding cesspools; but the corporation never heard of 'Scorpion Cove, and wouldn't look into it if it had. If you ask me how it came to be called 'Scorpion Cove, I will tell you. The brick house at one end was occupied by negroes; and the progeny of these negroes swarmed over the cove, and were called scorpions.
"You're a trifle mixed in your metaphors, Teddy," said Mrs. Perkins. "Well who wouldn't be, after a three weeks' appeal to an arid waste of voters?" "A waste of arid voters," amended Mrs. Perkins. "The amendment is accepted," laughed Thaddeus. And at that moment a telephone call from headquarters summoned him abroad. "Good-night, Bess," he said, kissing his wife affectionately.
A few of us has married among Injuns and lived among them, and we have seen things you wouldn't believe if I told you." "Tell some of them," said Orme. "I, for one, might believe them." "Well, now," said the plainsman, "I will tell you some things I have seen their medicine men do, and ye can believe me or not, the way ye feel about it."
But what am I going to do about him, sir the contemptible scamp who publicly sued his own wife's father? That's what I came to you for, Robert. What am I going to do?" "It'll be forgotten in a week, Colonel I wouldn't worry about it," answered Hendricks. "We all have those little unpleasantnesses."
'Going on for a year, said Paul. 'Didn't the inspector want you to go to a training-school? said Alfred. 'Yes; but the Guardians wouldn't hear of it. 'Did you wish it? asked Mr. Cope. 'I liked my liberty, Sir, was the answer; and Paul looked down. 'Well, and what you do think now you've tried your liberty?
I thought it was a dead-sure thing and I was hard up, and Kathleen wouldn't lend me any more. If Kathleen had only done the decent thing " A sudden flush of anger swept over Charley's face never before in his life had that face been so sensitive, never even as a child. Something had waked in the odd soul of Beauty Steele.
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