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"Are you coming back?" she asked, smiling brightly. "Are you going to open up the mine?" Wiley's face fell for a moment. "What gave you that idea?" he inquired bluffly, but the Widow pointed a finger and laughed roguishly. "I knew it," she cried. "I've known it for months and I wish you the best of good luck." "Oh, you do, eh?" grunted Wiley, and stood undecided as Mrs.
"It was in question whether Perrot or I should bear Count Frontenac's message. Perrot knew the way, I did not; Perrot also knew the Indians." "But Perrot," said the governor bluffly, "would have been the letter-carrier; you are a kind of ambassador. Upon my soul, yes, a sort of ambassador!" he added, enjoying the idea; for, look at it how you would, Iberville was but a boy.
"Good-bye!" he cried, nodding bluffly at the three as one, and fled. They watched his abrupt muscular stride through the grounds of the house. He looked like resolution on the march. Mrs. Doria, as usual with her out of her brother's hearing, began rating the System. "See what becomes of that nonsensical education! The boy really does not know how to behave like a common mortal.
She has forgotten them, I know, them and me, else she could not be so happy, nor have a bloom in her cheeks. Yes yes yes," continued he, still with the same torpid utterance; "with many thanks to you, Mr. Hollingsworth, I will creep back to town again." "You shall do no such thing, Mr. Moodie," said Hollingsworth bluffly.
We made a snug little party in the corner, and talked, smoked, and comforted ourselves, after the children had been put to bed, and while the landlord, landlady, and an old grandfather told stories to each other in Low German by the fire. At nine o’clock the landlord lighted his lantern, and told us bluffly that we might go to bed.
And still once more the two women fell to bemoaning their fate of exile beside the expiring embers, while the elder Gilhooley's voice sounded bluffly outside calling the oxen, and his son was rattling their heavy yoke in the corner. They were well advanced on their journey ere yet the snowy Christmas dawn was in the sky. So slow a progress was ill-associated with the idea of flight.
He finished, hesitatingly, "I guess the English are kinda hard to get acquainted with." "Lonely, eh?" she mused, abrupt and bluffly kind as a man, for all her modulating woman's voice. "You don't know any of the people here in the house?" "No'm. Say, I guess we got rooms next to each other." "How romantic!" she mocked. "Wrenn's my name; William Wrenn.
"Oh yes," responded Mrs. Falchion, still looking at the cable; "The Padre, I know, is very clever." "He is more than clever," bluffly replied Mr. Devlin, who was not keen enough to see the faint irony in her tones. "Yes," responded Mrs. Falchion in the same tone of voice, "he is more than clever. I have been told that he was once very brave.
"Stand up before me; hold up your Head; look me in the face! Now, then, answer me truly, and don't be afraid. Would you like to go to school, eh?" Ishmael did not speak, but the moonlight radiance of his pale beaming face answered for him. "Have you no tongue, eh?" bluffly demanded the old sailor.
She turned and threw a challenging glance at him. "You didn't know I had a pa? Well, I have and a good one." Then she raised her voice and called: "Pa, hello! I've corralled a man who'll take that ad." From the open door of the barn a man of burly figure appeared. He nodded to Mark, bluffly friendly. "That's good.
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