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"Let him go and I'll tell you about it," said the Colonel, and when the youngster had disappeared he continued: "Right after breakfast Noah went with me down to the mill. I noticed several children playing in front of Reihart's blacksmith shop. I went in, leaving Noah outside. I got a plow-share which I had left with Reihart to be repaired.
The Professor adjusted his glasses and turned them upon the doubter for the space of three minutes, but Holman was blissfully ignorant of the look which the angry archaeologist favoured him with. The youngster was watching the firelight upon the face of Miss Barbara Herndon, and his thoughts were probably in a dream-fed future instead of a dismal past.
I do every day of my life for I believe he knows how many pins she puts into her dress and yet there he is. As I said once in the mess-room there was a youngster there who took on himself to be witty, and talked about the still sow supping the milk the snob!
Did you sell it?" asked Dol, who was, as usual, the first to break a breathless silence. There was no reply. Herb feigned not to hear. "Did you get two hundred dollars for the head?" questioned the impetuous youngster again, in a higher key, his curiosity swelling. "I didn't. It was stole." The answer was a growl, like the growl of a hurt animal whose sore has been touched.
Do you think I will let your tricks pass? You little know this old man. I will complain to the Gods, not to the school-master; and as for your wine, youngster, I will offer it as a libation, that heaven may forgive you."
What sort of a youngster was he? Quite a handful, I should imagine now wasn't he?" The man on the desk crossed one fat knee over the other, tapping a flat-heeled shoe with his pencil. He tilted the brown felt hat a little farther back from his forehead and winked one eye at the Judge in jovial understanding.
And all at once her brother Hyacinthe joined her there. "Ah! it's you, youngster!" she exclaimed. "Well, make haste if you want to kiss me, for I'm off now, thank goodness!" He kissed her as she suggested, and then in a doctoral way replied: "I thought you had more self-command. The delight you have been showing all this morning quite disgusts me." A quiet glance of contempt was her only answer.
"Somebody, please put the lid on that youngster a minute," continued Dick, looking at Sam in well-assumed indignation. "As I was saying, -or about to say, -I have often wished that I knew more about the queer formations along the banks of rivers where I have gone on fishing trips.
It was soon finished and launched, but how to guide it to the rocks was a difficult question. "Before we shove off we must try and get some provisions and water," said Owen, more thoughtful than his companions. "You are right, youngster," answered Mr Fidd.
"Hold on, youngster," he cried, "ye must larn to do as yer bid, lad; it's trouble enough to be among wild Injuns and wild buffaloes, as I hope soon to be, without havin' wild comrades to look after." Dick laughed and reined in his panting horse. "I'll be as obedient as Crusoe," he said, "and no one can beat him."
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