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"Lifts cut, mains'l blowed out, and a lee shore a quarter of a mile away! I've knowed fools, lunatics, and idjits, and I don't want to insult 'em by callin' you them names. You " "Well, if we are any crazier for wantin' to go ashore where we belong than you was for settin' out to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a night like this, I'd like to have it stated why," declared Hiram.
Parker merely winked at it as the vagaries of a disordered mind," and she was free to quote her grammar from morning till night. Whenever she was crazier than usual, her command of language was proportionately greater, and her references to her grammar more frequent, while no one in the house could venture a remark without being immediately corrected for some impropriety of speech.
Josh!" called the woman. "Come up here and help me! She's gettin' vi'lent!" "Violent!" repeated Dorothy, "I ought to get crazy, to be shut up here this way." "Well, dearie, I didn't want to scare you," said the woman, in that tantalizing voice, "but if I was you, I wouldn't get any crazier than I was if I was you." "Crazy! Do you think I'm crazy?
I just forgot when the boys teased me about my calico plug and you wouldn't have stood for that if you'd been in my place. You just know you wouldn't. You used to do crazier things when you were a girl for Uncle Athol has told me just dozens and dozens of them. Why did you spy upon me? Why? Why? I loathe being distrusted." The storm had burst with a vengeance. "Beverly hush and listen to me.
Crazy, of course; for who could pause to work on the trail with pick or shovel, with winter coming on at the Sierra crossing? But not crazier than the other band who had come in three days ago, also ahead of the main train. Woodhull? Yes, that was the name Woodhull. He had twelve or fifteen wagons with him, and had bought supplies for California, though they all had started for Oregon.
He was convinced these people were crazier than any of those in the mad cells of Salpetriere.... Long since Henriette had evaded the worse sights and sounds by creeping as best she could along the side walls of the buildings, watching her chance to get away from the revelers. Again, at the street corner, another swirl passed over her, knocking her down. Ruefully she picked herself up again.
"What's your name?" she asked, suddenly. Pierce told her. "And yours?" he inquired. "Laure." "Laure what?" "Just Laure for the present." "Humph! You're one of this theatrical company, I presume." He indicated the singers across the room. "Yes. Morris Best hired us to work in his place at Dawson." "I remember your outfit at Sheep Camp. Best was nearly crazy " "He's crazier now than ever."
You need somebody around you with brains, to make up for Joe and Herb." "That pie must have gone to your head," said Joe. "We'd better try to get him home where they can take care of him, Herb. He'll probably be telling us he's Napoleon, if we let him get a little crazier." "I'm going right away, anyway," said Jimmy, hunting back of the door for his cap.
"Not so much at that time; but this is nearly twenty years later, and I have the fate of my children in my hands. I wish you'd go to bed and let me think!" said Kate. "Yes, and the longer you think the crazier you will act," cried Nancy Ellen. "I know you! You better promise me now, and stick to it." For answer Kate turned off the light; but she did not go to bed.
Hawkins regarded me sadly, and I sadly regarded the street below and tried to assimilate the fact that we were two hundred feet above the ground and rising at every puff of wind; that we were in a crazy clothes-basket, suspended from a crazier pair of wings, absolutely at the mercy of the breeze and likely at any moment to drop to eternal smash!
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