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" I put it to you forcibly so that in the future the blow will not be too cruel. They are often a weird lot." " Perhaps they can't find anything very bad about us." " Oh, no. And besides the whole episode will probably be forgotten by the time you return to the United States." They talked onin this way slowly, strainedly, until they each found that the situation would soon become insupportable.
"Want to join us, Alma?" "Oh yes thank you, Louis." "But I thought you and Leo were " "No, no. I'd rather go with you and mamma, Louis." Even her mother had smiled rather strainedly. Louis' invitation, politely uttered, had said so plainly, "Are we two never to be alone, your mother and I?" Oh, there was no doubt that Louis Latz was in love and with all the delayed fervor of first youth.
While they were feeling for heart-beats, the others came down and crowded close. Pink looked up at them strainedly. "Oh, for God's sake, some of yuh get water," he cried sharply. "What good do yuh think you're doing, just standing around?" "We ought to be hung for letting him come down here alone," Weary repented. "It ain't safe for one man in this cursed country. Where's he hurt, Cadwolloper?"
He was amazed at her look of self-control; he had thought to find her either collapsed or strainedly tragic: he had wondered as he came how he would speak to her, how he would soothe her, and he saw there was no need. She told him presently of the sudden turn for the worse early that morning as she herself fell asleep by the bedside; and a little of what had passed during the day.
"I can't believe you don't care for me at all, Miss Berenice," he went on, quite strainedly. "I felt you did care about me. But here," he added, all at once, with a real, if summoned, military force, "I won't bother you. You do understand me. You know how I feel. I won't change. Can't we be friends, anyhow?"
"An old Navvy trick, that is don't let 'em fool ye, boys! You jest wait, 'n' I'll tell ye 'when t' shoot, er whether t' shoot at all. They can't fool ME now I'm tellin' yuh!" After that they were silent, listening strainedly to the growing sounds of approach. There was the dull, unmistakable click of a hoof striking against a rock, the softer sound of treading on yielding soil.
"Want to join us, Alma?" "O yes thank you, Louis." "But I thought you and Leo were " "No, no, I'd rather go with you and mama, Louis." Even her mother had smiled rather strainedly. Louis' invitation, politely uttered, had said so plainly: "Are we two never to be alone. Your mother and I?" Oh, there was no doubt that Louis Latz was in love and with all the delayed fervor of first youth.
He had already employed these tactics up north, as we learned later. Gas alert was on all night and we were listening strainedly for soft bursts. Heavy rain came down steadily all day, and everything was drenched and dripping. The spaces between our huts filled with water, and needed continual baling out.
Jack Bates called out guardedly. "I I'm hurt, boys," Andy lifted his head to say, strainedly. "My hoss stepped in a hole, and I wasn't looking for it. I guess my leg's broke." Jack snorted. "That so? Sure it ain't your neck, now? Seems to me your head sets kinda crooked. Better feel it and find out, while we go on where we're going."
You see, when we had the farm I thought it was good for you. It would be yours when I died, and then who knows, in time, how valuable it might become? Now it's all different. You see the hills are best for me." He smiled strainedly. "They've always been good friends to me. But " "Yes, you don't fancy leavin' the hills." Buck's eyes wore a curious expression. They were half-smiling, half-angry.
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