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"I am cold," said Sarah Block. "At first I got along all right, with all these furs, and goin' down-stairs every time I felt chilly, but the freezin' air is beginnin' to go into my very bones like needles; and if winter is comin' on, and it's goin' to be worse than this, New Jersey is the place for me.
Lathrop, to go 'way back to the beginnin', seems as Mrs. Macy set out last night, as I said before, to make over her carpet. Seems as she wanted to turn it all around so's it'd fade away under the stove an' fray out in the corner where it don't show. I don't say as the idea was n't a good one although it's come pretty hard on Mrs.
"Um-m It ain't what it ought to be, still I can't complain. It takes time to work into a fashionable clienteel. All I get a whack at now is Injuns, but I'm gradually beginnin' to close in on the white teeth."
They was goin' to shoot him Corrigan put 'em up to it. That Carson fello' heard it an' put 'Firebrand' wise. An' the shootin' didn't come off. But that's only the beginnin'!" "Did Trevison tell you to tell me this?" The girl was stunned, amazed, incredulous.
Between the two words was a perceptible pause. "I ain't shootin' nobody in the back. I never have yet, and I ain't beginnin' now, not for you or any other damn man." "Say " began Lanpher, threateningly. Alicran Skeel turned a grim face on his employer so suddenly and sharply that Lanpher almost dodged.
"Beginnin' to talk us to death ag'in, are you, Tom Ross?" he exclaimed. "Runnin' on forever with that garrylous tongue o' yourn! You jest let me have this out with Henry!" Again Tom Ross blushed in the darkness and under the tan. A terrible fear seized him that he had indeed grown garrulous, a man of many and empty words.
Pan went swiftly up to the wall, and thence along it to the corner. The light came from an open door. He listened. There was no sound. Luckily Hurd was alone. Pan slipped round the corner and entered. Hurd sat at the table in the flare of a lamp, turned down low. "Ha! Was waitin' fer you, an' beginnin' to worry," he said, in hoarse whisper. "Plenty of time, if Blake's all ready," replied Pan.
Then them two wus in cahoots frum the beginnin'. That's what I told the Jedge last night, but he said he didn't give a whoop; thet he knew more poker than both ov 'em put tergether. I tell yer them fellers stole that money, an' they killed Beaucaire " "Hold on a minute," I broke in, my mind cleared of its first passion, and realizing the necessity of control. "Let's keep cool, and go slow.
Weatherby," explained Sol Peterkin, carefully closing the shutter after his entrance. "My wife's took so bad that I'm beginnin' to fear she'll turn out as po' a bargain as the last. It's my luck I always knew I was ill-fated but, Lord a-mercy, how's a man goin' to tell the state of a woman's innards from the way she looks on top?
An' he went to work a-practicin' 'air-dyes the very next day, beginnin' on some white rabbits he had, an' then he drored all Rip's markin's on t' back of a white Commissariat bullock, so as to get his 'and in an' be sure of his colors; shadin' off brown into black as nateral as life.
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