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"We've come to help you move over right away." "Well, not while I have a voice in the affairs of my own husband's niece! How are you, Evelina, and are you crazy, Sallie Carruthers?" came in a deep raven croak of a voice that sounded as if it had harked partly from the tomb, as Aunt Augusta Shelby stood in the doorway, with reproof on her lips and sternness on her brow.
Then the old woman got very angry and cursed the queen, saying, "You will become half a frog and half a human being, and you will stand outside your co-wife's bath-room and croak like a frog." But the queen did not mind her the least little bit, and she laughed so loud at the old woman that the noise was like two chains rattling together.
If The General was elated The Oskaloosa Kid was at once relieved and terrified. Relieved by ocular proof that he was not a murderer and terrified by the immediate presence of the two who had sought his life. His cigaret drawing well Dopey Charlie resumed: "This Oskaloosa Kid's a bad actor," he volunteered. "The little shrimp tried to croak me; but he only creased my ribs.
An owl hooted and a swart raven disengaged himself from the coppice about the door of the pavilion, and fluttered away with a croak of disdainful anger. Black Darnaway turned his head and whinnied anxiously after his master.
Then they walked on together, and the sisters behind, with Amabel clinging to her mother's hand. "Jim's goin' to work if he has had a little windfall," said Eva, proudly. "Oh, Fanny, only think what it means!" "I hope it will be a lesson to both of them," said Mrs. Zelotes, stalking along after, but she smiled harshly. "Oh, land, don't croak, if you've got a chance to laugh!
Billy found the one he wished and presently he was free. He still stood looking at the deputy sheriff. "I ought to croak you," he murmured. "I'll never make my get-away if I don't; but SHE won't let me God bless her." Suddenly a thought came to Billy Byrne. If he could have a start he might escape. It wouldn't hurt the man any to stay here for a few hours, or even for a day.
No nightingales were singing here, but I heard the melancholy scream of the hawk and the harsh croak of the raven. And yet, when I looked down into the bottom of this steep desert of stones, what soft and vernal beauty was there!
From the bed her mother's voice, changed from its usual ring to a croak that was crepuscular as the creepy room, wheezed: "That you deary? I got summer cold so sorry leave work undone " "If you would only keep your windows open, my dear mother " Una marched to the window, snapped up the blind, banged up the sash, and left the room. "I really can't see why!" was all she added.
He has it in for all gringos, and that bull you passed him about me being from a foreign country called Grand Avenue! He fell for it like a rube for the tapped-wire stuff. He said if I wouldn't stay and help him he'd croak the bunch of us." "How about that ace-in-the-hole, you were telling me about?" asked Bridge.
He must have hooked his missus's stocking with all the savings gained at very hard work. It wasn't clean money they had used, but money that could infect them with any manner of vile diseases. Well, anyway, they hadn't thought to invite her for a drink. If you wanted to drink by yourself, you could croak by yourself.
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