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At length she stammered: "I did not come b-because I simply couldn't stand it!" His face cleared as he turned quietly: "Child, you must not confuse matters. You must not think of being sorry for me. The old order is passing ticking away on every clock in the world. All that inverted order of things is being reversed. You don't know what I mean, do you?
It was d-d-dark as a p-p- pocket, and this ch-ch-chump here, S-Spike, didn't make the t-tender f-fast to the s-slip, and she f-floated off. The f-fog was so thick that we couldn't s-see the yacht, and we didn't dare t-try to s-swim for her, b-because if we got wet and c-couldn't f-find her, and had to l-l-loaf around all night on s-shore, s-s- soppin' wet, why, that would be r-r-rotten, you see.
"I w-wont t-take it," she said, still sobbing, though trying hard to control herself; "it wasn't your fault, Marjorie; I oughtn't to have been so silly as to be scared b-because you said b-boo!" By this time Jane had removed all evidences of the accident, and except for a few stains on Stella's frock, everything was in order.
"I I did a few things I almost w-wish I hadn't," stammered Brown, "b-because I can't, somehow, decently t-tell you how tremendously I I " He stuck fast. "What?" "It would look as though I were presuming on a t-trifling service rendered, and oh, I can't say it; I want to, but I can't." "Say what? Please, I don't mind what you are are going to say." "It's it's that I "
I only wish you were safely out of here and back in the North!" Letty began to cry softly: "Forgive me, please; I'm not naturally as tearful as this. I am just tired. I've done too much seen too much and it hasn't hardened me; it has made me like a silly child, ready to sniffle at anything." Berkley laughed gently. "Why are you crying now, Letty?" "B-because they have offered me a furlough.
Even Steve raised his head to stare at Owen, though it required an effort for him to break the strange spell the milk-white pearl seemed to have cast about him. "Tell us what you mean, Owen," begged the broad-shouldered young Samson, with the bowed legs. "Yes, p-p-please do, b-because you s-s-see, we're all worked up now." "Then listen, fellows," said Owen, impressively.
What chance has a girl got against you? You want to use his money, so you p-poison his mind break a woman's heart just b-because you hate me." The last words were sobbed forth. Miss Montague broke down. "Hell!" hoarsely exclaimed young Briskow. "You're makin' her cry!" Gray sighed; he stepped to the door, opened it and called, "Come in, both of you."
Ruthven," he blurted out with clumsy sympathy, "you mustn't think such things, b-because they're all rot, you see; and if any fellow ever said those things to me I'd jolly soon " "Do you mean to say you've never heard us criticised?" "I well everybody is criticised, of course " "But not as we are! Do you read the papers?
"Well Archer says it's going to be about seven hundred thousand. And I deserve about thirty cents. And you're responsible for all the rest of it.... What do you want first? Those golden pheasants, or humming-birds' wings?" She lifted her face. "Both b-because I won't have to cook 'em.
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