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"And if you're successful, am I to have the pleasure of your company for the rest of my life?" demanded the captain. "That will be for you to decide," was the reply. "Is it a bargain?" The captain looked at him and deliberated. "All right. Mondays and Thursdays," he said, laconically. Hardy saw through the ruse, and countered.
"If you ate much more, you'd have a quartermaster officer coming around to find out what was the matter with you," countered Tom. "The trouble with you is, that you don't understand my motives," complained Billy. "Personally, I dislike food, and, if I had my way, would make a canary bird look like a heavy eater.
He wouldn't risk his neck without a definite plan in mind. "Well, what do you say, Murdock? Are you with me or not?" "I'll take some time to chew it over " "Time is what you do not have, boy. Tomorrow they will tape you. Then no over the wall for you." "Suppose you tell me your trick for fooling the tape," Ross countered.
"If this goes through," he countered, "we'll all quit. That's why I'm doing it. I'm sick of the game." He turned to the work in hand with increased energy. "Come, you, Griggs and Red, and push that desk down a bit so that I can stand on it." The two men bent to the task, heedless of Mary's frantic protest. "No! no! no! no! no, Joe!"
"Bring on the check. I should like to settle the bill at once, and have it off my mind." "You may take off your gloves," she countered. "I know that you must feel uncomfortable with them on. To clasp one's own hands is a kind of personal sympathy. Try it." He drew them off, not ungracefully, and tucked them away. He spread his thin brown muscular fingers a few times, then folded his arms.
"I won't read that at all," I countered; "I'll read nothing but the ship news to see if you are stranded." "Well, I won't do it!" snorted Bunch. "You'll have to do it if you want to win out that wedding money," I retorted. "Is this the way you thank me for what I've done for you?" "Done for me, nothing!" Bunch bit back. "I put up as much coin as you did, and now you want me to do all the work!"
She hesitated an instant and then went on frankly, "To tell the truth, when you first came in I was hoping you might be looking for a job." For an instant Buck had all he could do to conceal his amazement at this extraordinary turn of events. "You mean I'd stand a chance of being taken on?" he countered, sparring for time. "Of course! That is You are a cow-puncher, aren't you?"
"Gail!" stammered Joy. Then her courage came back, as it usually did when she summoned it, and she laughed. "Heavens, I am discovered!" she quoted. "Why, John, you don't mean to tell me you ran away too?" "I didn't run away," countered John. "I promised Philip yesterday that I'd stay here to luncheon with him. In fact, I think I promised to summon you.
I was scrutinizing the house across the way rather intently, but honestly there was no burglary in my thoughts." "I'm rather sorry to hear that," he countered with a simulation of disappointment. "I've never burgled and I had begun to hope you'd initiate me and let me share the adventure."
He countered his questioner: 'Just to liberate you from your moribund state, my friend. And he told the story of the wrecked sailor, found lying on the sands, flung up from the foundered ship of a Salvation captain, and how, that nothing could waken him, and there he lay fit for interment; until presently a something of a voice grew down into his ears; and it was his old chum Polly, whom he had tied to a board to give her a last chance in the surges; and Polly shaking the wet from her feathers, and shouting: 'Polly tho dram dry! which struck on the nob of Jack's memory, to revive all the liquorly tricks of the cabin under Salvationism, and he began heaving, and at last he shook in a lazy way, and then from sputter to sputter got his laugh loose; and he sat up, and cried; 'That did it!
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