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"You seem to be familiar with the home of our gracious hostess," remarked Baskinelli. "I make it a rule to be familiar with all homes in which Miss Marvin is entertained." "Miss Marvin? You are, then a relative?" "I am her guardian." "Ah-h! You have control perhaps of certain small sums bequeathed to her?" "Yes." "And you would like to have as few persons as possible in the Chinatown party?"
Then the proud moment when Bill the driver, with legs apart, almost pushing on the reins, drives his horses up the hill. "Go it, Dick. Let 'er out, Daisy. Stiddy, ol' boy. Whoa, there. Ease down now. Hey, there, John, block the wheel block the wheel I tell ye. Ah-h now, jes' breathe a bit. I jing, it's hot."
I'm worse than a helldodger, a whole lot worse." The words were playful, but the tone was sardonic. Bull grunted. "You tell me, will you, just where it was you met this Bill Smith-Jack Harpe feller, and what it was he did? There's a company in it, too. What company is it the Northern Pacific?" "Ah-h, you got a gall, you have," sneered Bull, savagely.
She tapped both the aged cheeks at once: "I hate to share anything so delicious with you, but I must, because " "Ah-h! because, as usual " "Yes! Yes, you sweet old pelican! Because you are to turn the crank! But it's all for love of Anna. Ah, there's no inspiration like exasperation!" "Except destitution!" said the grandmother.
"But sweeter even than Life's rich wine, As, hot from the kill ah-h! draught divine! It trickles adown my ravished throat, Is my gaunt mate's deep-toned, chesty note. As o'er hill and plain She calls amain Till the welkin quivers with ecstasy: Ai y-u-u yu yu-u-u-u! 'Oh come, Beloved, to Love and me! Ai yu-u-u-u-u-u! "Manlings spawned in the cities' slime. Weaklings, withered before your prime.
You cannot so far forget your duty as not to tell me how HE behaved at dinner." "He looked awful glum, and hardly said a word." "Ah-h!" exclaimed the widow, "the spell is working." "If you aint a-workin' tomorrow, there'll be a worse spell," the girl remarked. "That will do, Jane, that will do. You little understand how should you?
"Ah-h!" he said, again under his breath. It held a note of satisfaction. Uncle William hitched up his suspender and came leisurely across the sand. He squinted at the canvas and then at the sliding water, rising and falling across the bay. "Putty good," he said approvingly. "You've got it just about the way it looks " "Just about," assented the young man, with quick satisfaction. "Just about.
"Ah-h!" said Agricola, further nettling his victim by a gaze of stagy admiration. "'Sans peur et sans reproche' and yet you disappoint me. Is it for naught, that I have sallied forth from home, drawing the curtains of my carriage to shield me from the gazing crowd? It was to rescue my friend my vicar my coadjutor my son from the laughs and finger-points of the vulgar mass.
It's Casey Ryan that's tellin' yuh, an' yuh better heed what he says, before you're tore from limb to limb!" "B-but, Casey! This 'ere's a shurf's possy!" The voice of Barney rose in a protesting 'squawk. "I brung 'em all the way over here to your rescue! They brung a cor'ner to view your remains! Don't you know your pardner, BARNEY OAKES? "Ah-h I know yuh think I don't?
"Ah-h, there are times when a man hasn't got his thinking powers; you ought to know that, Smith, " "Mr. Gholson, what do you mean by that?" "Oh! I certainly didn't mean anything against you, Smith. Why is your manner so strange to me to-day?
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