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They're a thieving, treacherous lot, smooth to your face, but ready to stab you the minute your back's turned. I'll bet you a five-dollar bill he's got a knife hid somewhere about him. He might take a notion some night to cut all our throats." "Whittington," said Spurling, bluntly, "under the circumstances it might be better taste for you not to speak until you've heard from the rest of us.
So saying, he rolled, with a nautical gait, towards the door by which the domestic had re-entered the room, and having reached the stairfoot, and finding himself alone, he added, with a sudden snarl, 'I'd like to give three of ye a chance of earning a wooden leg anyhow coming into my house and guzzling my best beer the very minute my back's turned on ye.
Geological Transactions, vol. vi. p. 415. I have there shown that the apparent exceptions to the absence of erratic boulders in certain countries, are due to erroneous observations; several statements there given I have since found confirmed by various authors. Geographical Journal, 1830, pp. 65, 66. Richardson's Append. to Back's Exped., and Humboldt's Fragm. Asiat., tom. ii. p. 386. Messrs.
"My back's maybe a wee bit sore; but a body gets tired lying always in the yin position. Forby, the day aye seems long when you are out, and I dinna like to think of you out working all day, and then sitting down to knit at nicht. It must be very tiring for you, Nellie."
Catty, my dear, your back's asy up, but it's asy down again. Catty. Not when I've been trod on as now, counshillor: it's then I'd turn and fly at a body, gentle or simple, like mad. O'Bla. There's my own pet mad cat and there's a legal venom in her claws, that every scratch they'll give shall fester so no plaister in law can heal it. Catty.
"Lucky guy; he can get around on his feet, and I'll bet he isn't starving, either. You know, speaking about food, I'm going to feel like a cannibal eating carniculture meat, now. My whole back's carniculture." He filled his mouth with whatever it was they were feeding him and asked, through it: "Did I miss Steve Ravick's hanging?" I was horrified. "Haven't these people told you anything?"
At that moment the front door of the house opened, and presently a shrill voice came through the door: "Shmokin', shmokin', are ye, Kilquhanity? As soon as me back's turned, it's playin' the fool " She stopped short, seeing the Avocat. "Beggin' yer pardon, Misther Garon," she said, "I thought it was only Kilquhanity here, an' he wid no more sense than a babby."
"Certainly, certainly, you can take the silver," said the colonel genially. "Bring me the films." The man was half-way out of the room when he turned round. "No tricks, mind you," he said, "no doing funny business when my back's turned." "I shall not move from the chair, Tom. You don't seem to trust me." The ex-valet made two journeys before he deposited a dozen shallow tin boxes on the desk.
One of us better take a look through that young stock in the lower field, too, and see if there's any more sign uh blackleg. Which you ruther do?" Brit tilted his chair backward so that he could reach the coffeepot on the stove hearth. "I'll haul down the posts," he decided carelessly. "They're easy loaded, and I guess my back's as good as yourn."
"Oh, never mind," interrupted Eve, with a little smile, on seeing that he hesitated; "my friends never see me except in bed. Indeed I live in bed; but you must not think I'm lazy. It's only that my back's bad. Come in and sit down." "Well, boy," demanded the skipper again, "were you sent here to find me?" "Yes, sir," said Lumpy, with his eyes still fixed on the earnest little face of Eve.
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