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The wolves serenaded us through the night with a chorus of their agreeable howling, but none of them ventured near the encampment. But Mr. Back's repose was disturbed by a more serious evil: his buffalo robe caught fire, and the shoes on his feet, being contracted by the heat, gave him such pain, that he jumped up in the cold, and ran into the snow as the only means of obtaining relief.
She came upstairs she'd come right up from the train, and not seen any one but Dad; and he wasn't very intelligible, I guess and she sat down and took the baby in her arms, and says she, looking at me sort of patiently, yet as if she was exasperated too: 'Well, this is a nice way to do, the minute my back's turned!
Hold on, I says; 'take me hat and let me have yours, for I don't git a good hat every day, and the bag's that dirty it'll spile it. "'Go on, he says; 'I've carried it all the way from the yard and me back's broke. Well, I pulled his hat ever me eyes and started up the stairs wid the bag on me shoulder.
"And why not?" said Lucy, rather roughly. "And dame Greystock, from Bobsborough, has sent you here to keep you out of her son's way. I see it all. And that old frump at Richmond has passed you over to me because she did not choose to have such goings on under her own eye." "There have been no goings on," said Lucy. "And he's to come here, I suppose, when my back's turned?"
"It may be a big job, Issy," he remarked, relighting the stump of cigarette, "or it may be a little job. But what I say and what I do is, impress your client. Impress your client, Issy. Let that be your maxim through life. And if I catch you again takin' a draw at my cigarette when my back's turned, as I see you just now, I'll damn well turn you inside out and chuck you through that door.
I suppose Miss Pinshon herself had never been used to it nor known it; for she did not seem to guess at what was in my mind. But it made my mornings hard to get through. By the afternoon the spirit was so utterly gone out of me and of everything, that I took it all in a mechanical stupid way; and only my back's aching made me impatient for the time to end.
"That's all, sir," he snarled, displaying his empty palms in token of his absolute tractability. "Good enough. Now right about face quick! Your back's prettier than your face, and besides, I want to know whether your hip-pockets are empty. I've heard it's the habit of you gentry to pack guns in your clothes.... None? That's all right, then.
No, it's a fifty-two-kyard deck all right, an' the dealer depends on "puttin' back" to keep all straight. An' I'm driven to concede that the put-back work of said party is like a romance; puttin' back's his speshulty.
"Why, Tod," the big man smiled, "you did the same thing." "He knew I was nothing. But you're a growed man. But what's this, Bull? Your back's all wet." "It's nothing much," said Bull calmly. "When I fell, my head hit a stone. There's some things worth paying for, and Diablo's one of them." The cut proved, as he had said, to be a small thing; but it turned out that Diablo was far from won.
This explanatory note she gave in a low confidential tone, and the spectators of that credulous generation did not hear it without an involuntary shudder. "The gudeman and her disna aye gree weel, and then I maun pay the piper; but my back's broad eneugh to bear't a' an' if she hae nae havings, that's nae reason why wiser folk shouldna hae some."
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