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It might have been four hours afterwards that Linda was working in her garden, hoeing a strawberry bed, and singing to herself some low song, when, attracted by a slight movement at the fence, she raised her eyes. Mr. Nimrod Bunting was leaning against the rails. 'I guess you may go on, Miss, said he, showing all his yellow teeth. 'I've been admirin' yar voice this quarter of an hour past.
I've no notion o' them chaps when they're left at a place wi' nothin' to do but whittle sticks." "Why, Joe!" exclaimed Dick Varley in a tone of surprise, "I thought you were admirin' the beautiful face o' nature all this time, and ye're only thinkin' about the sodgers. Now, that's strange!" "Not so strange after all, lad," answered Joe.
I observed her lookin' partikler admirin' at the handkercher, which was a handsome yellow spot, so I up an' axed her to take a present of it, an' I settled it like an apron in front, to show how iligant 'twould look; an' she was mighty plased, an' curtseyed ever so often, an' Jackey himself gev me the trout out of a big basket he brought in.
I've had to tell a man pretty plain that my age has got its growth an' I don't think that man is admirin' me much for bein' told. But if he's wantin' to have me put out of business he's goin' to do the job himself Ben Radford ain't doin' it."
And as long as I'd known him I've never seen Twombley-Crane thaw out so much. Why, he acts almost human as he shakes hands! Then he takes the package from under his arm and unwraps it. "The Whistler that I'd given up all hope of ever getting!" says he, gazin' at it admirin' and enthusiastic. "So?" says I, non-committal. "And now it appears mysteriously, sent from here," says he.
Early in the morning, when it is cool, I shall ride out into the sandhills with Carlos. He is going to teach me how to shoot a lion." She was chatterin' along like a schoolgirl, and when the boat pulls out of the slip she waves jaunty to us. Don Carlos, leanin' over the rail alongside of her, gazes at her sort of admirin'. "El Kurfah, eh?" says I to Sadie.
Wall, I'd a been a-lookin' at the panorama with one half of my mind and admirin' the beauty round me with the other half. But at this minute and it wuz lucky my eppisode had come to an end, for if there is anything I hate it is to be broke up in eppisodin' my Josiah returned.
I rode along for a spell, admirin' as much of the scenery as I could see between the women's hats, then I told the skipper of the thing that I wanted to make port at 82nd Street. He said 'Ugh, apparently suff'rin' from the same complaint the dog woman had, and we went on and on. At last I got kind of anxious and asked him again. "'Eighty-second! says he, ugly. 'This is Ninety-first.
"I want this country to be the Light of the World, the favored of Heaven, and the admiration of all the different nations that will camp round it at the Christopher Columbus Exhibition. But they can't be expected to uphold no such doin's as these, let alone admirin' of 'em." Sez Josiah, "It beats all how wimmen will run on if a man gits drunk.
"I guess they wanted to make sure they were admirin' the right things," ventured Mr. Wrenn, with secret terror. "Yes, that's so," came so approvingly from the Greek chorus that the personal pupil of Mittyford, Ph.D., made his first epigram: "It isn't so much what you like as what you don't like that shows if you're wise." "Yes," they gurgled; and Mr.
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