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Bert couldn't forget that smile, and he was still thinking about the girl, and what her life must be, when Hartley came in. "By jinks! It's snifty, as dad used to say. You can't draw a long breath through your nostrils; freeze y'r nose solid as a bottle," he announced, throwing off his coat with an air which seemed to make him an old resident of the room.
Pinky turned a little pale. "Only Mother Quig," said Norah, with an indifferent air; "she has to do it 'most every night no getting along any other way with Tom. It beats all how much he can stand." "Oh, Norah, won't she never stop?" cried Pinky, starting up. "I can't bear it a minute longer." "Shut y'r ears. You've got to," answered the woman, with some impatience in her voice.
Burlingame, y'r anner, the minute I first saw him, sez I, 'Askatoon's no safe place for me. Whin wan like that gits a footin' in a place, the locks can't be too manny to shut ye in whin ye want to sleep at night. That fella's got no pedigree, and if it wouldn't hurt some dacent woman, maybe, I'd say he was misbegotten.
An' y' saw us pass did y'? An' y'r frowsy dyed-haired slattern wife told us y' were away? An' 't will be a week y' fought 'em when y' tell it again; an' y' been huntin' them seven weeks lyin' sodden drunk in y'r tent wi' a whiskey keg from th' cellar o' y'r white-vested friend? Hoh?" He caught the flabby body by the collar, spinning the dignity of the law round face down prone upon the log.
At dawn, bootless and hatless, I came in sight of Fort Gibraltar and Father Holland, who was scanning the prairie for my return, came running to greet me. "The tip-top o' the mornin' to the renegade! I thought ye'd been scalped and so ye have been nearly only they mistook y'r hat for the wool o' y'r crown. Boots gone too! Out wid your midnight pranks."
All you need, young man, is a chance to swing y'r elbows. You want room according to y'r strength, but you never'd find it in the Republican party. It's struck with the palsy." The judge had been talking this for two presidential campaigns and didn't take himself at all seriously. "What are you going to do?" "I don't know, yet." "Do you want 'o study law?" "I don't know, sir.
I fear for you Vastly & I beg you not Riske y'r Life Foolishly & this for the Sake of one who subscribes herself y'r Old Playmate & Well-Wisher Dolly. "P.S. I have writ Sir Jon Fielding to put you in the Marshallsee or New Gate until Mr. Carvel can be tolde. I am Better & hope soon to see you agen & have been informed of y'r Dayly Visitts & y'r Flowers are beside me.
"Naow hold up y'r hands, yeou fellah," he said, "'n' keep 'em up, while this man puts the rope raound y'r wrists." Dick felt himself helpless, and, rather than have his disabled arm roughly dealt with, held up his hands. Mr. Bernard did as Abel said; he was in a purely passive state, and obeyed orders like a child.
If you're going at me echelon, sound y'r bugle; I'm ready." "Don't worry," answered the Colonel, in his calmest nasal. "I'll accommodate you with all the fight you want."
"Hoh! man, but y'r old peaks have a nip in the air at three in the mornin'!" Matthews came down to the raft chaffing his hands. "That's a job worthy a woodsman," he observed, holding the halter reins while the Ranger got a couple of long poles. A dozen saplings had been mortised to a couple of cottonwoods. "They may take water; but they'll not sink; and they'll not tip," declared Wayland.
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