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Slim dropped the berries hastily. "Thanks, old man, for telling me," he said warmly. "Whew! What a chance for a comeback he would have had on Slim!" said the Captain that night as the campers sat around in an informal family council while the twins were out in the launch with Mr. Evans. "The fact that he didn't take it shows that he's a pretty good sort after all. I didn't think he had it in him."
Harkless," he shouted; "he's in them elders," and then: "Fer God's sake, comeback!" Empty-handed as he was, the editor dashed for the treacherous elder-bush as fast as his long legs could carry him; but, before he had taken six strides, a hand clutched his sleeve, and a girl's voice quavered from close behind him: "Don't run like that, Mr. Harkless; I can't keep up!"
"Nonsense, child," said Lady Margaret, "you do seem tired. Mrs. Dalton and Falkland shall go to the rock, and I will stay here with you." "Nobody will run away with me; and I can very easily amuse myself with picking up shells till you comeback." After along remonstrance, which produced no effect, this plan was at last acceded to.
I sold two thousand five hundred dollars' worth of gowns the first week." "Sure enough?" "'Girl, old man Lichtig said to me the day I quit 'girl, he said, 'if ever you need this job again, comeback; it's waiting." "Fine chance!" "I've got the last twenty-five dollars I earned pinned away this minute in the pocket of the little dark-blue suit I wore to work.
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