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He waved toward the vehicle, toward the peacefully grazing horse, Mrs. Caley sitting upright and sallow. "And take him right along with you," Meta Beggs added; "your money's tight around his neck." Resentment at the implied ignominy penetrated his self-esteem. "We're going right on now, Lettice," he continued; "we must drive as careful as possible."
But they are nimble and quick with their curved swords; and the fierceness of their faces, and their shouting, would have put men out of countenance who had less reason to be confident than ours." "And the trading has gone well?" asked Mistress Beggs, who was known to have a keen eye to the main chance.
As soon as the anchor was dropped and the sails were furled, the captain, Reuben Hawkshaw, a cousin of Master Beggs, took his place in the boat, accompanied by his son Roger, a lad of sixteen, and was rowed by two sailors to the landing place.
"I threw the stone that hit Buck, didn't I! I busted his head open, didn't I! Oh, of course, I'm to blame for it all ... put it on me." "Well, how did you get in it? how did you get mixed up with the school-teacher?" "I got Mrs. Caley to thank for this, and I'll thank her." He hotly recited the obvious aspect of his connection at the camp meeting with Meta Beggs.
Then came the other two, wondering what the plan of campaign might be; for even Shack Beggs, finding himself so strangely thrown in with these boys whom in the past he had hated and scorned; was already as deeply interested in the outcome as any of the chums might be; and Bandy-legs no longer frowned at his proximity, for he could not forget how it was Shack's strong hand that had helped him make a landing on the sloping roof just a short time before.
Anyway, I want to take them to Miss Beggs." "Do you know where she lives?" asked Laura, stooping and helping Billie at her task. "She sent me there one time to get some papers," Billie explained, as she rose to her feet, clutching the newspaper package. "It's a boarding house on Main Street, only a few blocks from here."
Well, look at that print Max is pointing to right now! Don't think any Shafter, Toots or Beggs made that, do you?" "Gosh!" exclaimed Bandy-legs, staring; "he must 'a' been a giant, sure. I never did see a bigger shoe print, honest now. And, boys, it ain't the nicest thing going to know that monster is right here, marooned on this island with us."
"I am Roger, sure enough, aunt," he said, stooping and kissing her; and then shaking hands with his uncle, and kissing Agnes. "And your father," Diggory asked, "and the Swan?" "It is a sad story," Roger said. "A very sad story, uncle. Six years ago, the Swan was wrecked on the coast of Tabasco; and every soul, save myself, lost." It was a blow for Diggory Beggs.
There a man is better understood, and women as well." "I have never been out of America," Miss Beggs admitted. "But you might well have been," he assured her; "you are more Continental than any one else I can think of." He moved toward the middle of the bench and she said quickly: "You must not misunderstand. I am not cheap nor silly. It might have been better for me."
If I can get things with it that's what I'm going to do." Gordon Makimmon found these potent words from such a pleasing woman as Meta Beggs. Any philosophy underlying them, any ruthless strength, escaped him entirely. They appealed solely to him as "gay," highly suggestive. They stirred his blood into warm, heady tides of feeling. He moved over the smooth covering of pine needles, closer to her.
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