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Now, what have I said?" "That Sam that Mr. Turner would even dream of marrying that Westlake girl, just in order to get the better of a business transaction," and very much to Theophilus Stevens' surprise and consternation and dismay, she suddenly crumpled up in a heap in her chair and burst out crying. "Well, I'll be busted!" her father muttered into his beard.
When we saw that oil go over the crown block, and when they told us that black stuff was really oil, Ma busted out cryin' and said she'd see the mountains, after all then she wouldn't mind if she died. Pa he cried, too, we'd allus been so pore You see, Ma's kind of marked about mountains been that way since she was a girl. She cuts out stories and pictures of 'em.
It was about this time I began to notice a fellow named Tyne on the beach a thin, tall, hungry-looking man in a derby hat, very shabby black clothes, and no socks who was said to be a busted doctor landed off of a French bark.
You'll be as keen as a w'istle in a couple o' months. An' 'ere! Christmas in Blightey, son! S'y! I'll tyke yer busted shoulder if you'll give me the chanct!" "They ain't nothin' they can't do fer you back at the base 'ospital. 'Member 'ow they fixed old Ginger up? You ain't caught it 'arf as bad!" In England, before I knew him for the man he is, I said, "How am I to endure living with him?"
"Why, fifty gulden is But what for, son? Why the financial statement?" "Want to start right, that's all. You've paid for everything so far, Little, and I'm busted clean. Keeping tally, that's all." "Forget it," smiled Little. "I've got a note on Houten's bankers in Surabaya for the exes. Pitch that pencil out o' the window before it gives you indigestion.
"How do I know you can give me good title?" "Ain't I tellin' you so?" "Yes, but why should I believe you?" "You shouldn't, unless you've got sense enough to see that we ain't gettin' you 'way up here, an' we ain't living round these parts a couple of years on a busted proposition." The stranger evidently debated this.
The hurried entrance and startled cry of the grocer's boy in the kitchen below, and the loud talk that followed, made her move to the head of the stairs. There she stood listening, her heart in her mouth, her knees trembling. Such expressions as "drownded," "more'n a hundred of 'em " reached her ears. Then came the words "de boss's work busted; ain't nobody seen him alive, so dey say."
The pueblo seemed like an ancient city of his dreams; the adobe houses details of a weird phantasmagoria; his adventures of the past forty-eight hours a succession of wild imaginings which he now reviewed with a sort of detached interest, as though he had watched them from afar. The moonlight shone on him; he heard Levins exclaim sharply: "Your arm's busted, ain't it?"
You see, that was back in the days before Dan busted loose. When he was about the range most usually he was the quietest man I ever sat opposite to barrin' one and that was a feller that went west with a bum heart at the chuck table! Ha, ha, ha!" The marshal's laughter boomed through the big room as he recalled this delightful anecdote.
He was such a comfort to me, although he tormented my old heart out of me, 'most." "The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away Blessed be the name of the Lord! But it's so hard Oh, it's so hard! Only last Saturday my Joe busted a firecracker right under my nose and I knocked him sprawling. Little did I know then, how soon Oh, if it was to do over again I'd hug him and bless him for it."
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