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For answer Lamy dug into his trousers' pockets, under his chaps, and produced two more rolls of bills. "That's the chunk," he said with a sneering inflection in his voice. "If you want I'll stand a frisk." "No, I won't search you. I take it you're too sensible to lie!" "Thanks," replied Lamy dryly. "I suppose I'm free to go now, unless you figure you'd be safer by killin' me off."
Come on down to the market an' we'll git some A-1 sirloins outen ye, anyway. Do your folks that much good." It was things like this that made Luke want to burn, poison, or shoot Uncle Clem. He was not a bad man, Uncle Clem a thick sandy chunk of a fellow, given to bright neckties and a jocosity that took no account of feelings.
Her fear of spooks was so great that her impulse was to run away with Chunk as far from that haunted plantation as he would take her. Trembling like a wind-shaken leaf, she stole into the garden shrubbery and whispered, "Chunk?" "Hi! yere I is." There was no tantalizing coquetry in Zany's manner now. In a moment she was in Chunk's arms sobbing, "Tek me way off fum dis place.
Hippy said he would cut out a steak, but Nora decided that he must have assistance or he would be sending something that not even the mountaineers could eat. A black chunk of meat that weighed all of twelve pounds was the result of the carving. This Hippy tied up in a roll and gave to Washington to take to the Thompsons.
I sat down at the supper table last night at Riddle's, and I looked at Rosy, and I says to myself, 'Chunk, if you get the girl get her on the square don't try any hocus-pocus with a thoroughbred like her. And I keeps the paper you give me in my pocket.
I remembered, on the drunk on the Idler, how Scotty and the harpooner and myself had raked and scraped dimes and nickels with which to buy the whisky. Then came my boy code: when on a day a fellow gave another a "cannon-ball" or a chunk of taffy, on some other day he would expect to receive back a cannon-ball or a chunk of taffy. That was why Nelson had lingered at the bar.
If you get that vessel you'll deserve her, and when you're forming the S.S. Valkyrie Company I'll head the list of stock subscribers with a healthy little chunk. You know me, Gus! I'm the old bell mare in shipping circles; a lot of others will follow where I lead." "I forgive you the spruce deal, Cappy. You're an awful pirate; but, for all that, you're a grand piece of work. God bless you!"
My 'specs." "Be off, you skeleton. Make time for the house and help get supper for me and the men. If you don't run like a red deer, I'll ride you down." "Good Lawd! w'at gwine ter hap'n nex'?" groaned Chunk, as he disappeared toward the mansion. He burst like a bombshell into the kitchen, a small building in the rear of the house. "Did you eber see de likes?" exclaimed Zany. "What yo' manners "
On my file I find one report, Señor Casparis, that you have not made ice in accord with your contract. And here the bay man smiles at me, 'cute. "'Oh, well, says I, 'I guess the report's straight. I know they caught me. That's all there is to it. "'Do not say so, says the bay man. He pulls off a glove and goes over and lays his hand on that chunk of glass.
At the same time the pursuer was raising his revolver, sighting. Jack felt a little shiver. He had never been suspected of being a coward, yet he was willing to admit that he didn't want to feel a chunk of lead plowing its way through him. "Last word to halt!" yelled the pursuer, in an ugly tone. "Fire, then!" dared Jack Benson. Crack! Whizz-zz! Chug! The weapon was discharged promptly.
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