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"Cuss 'im!" croaked the old woman in a sympathetic manner, as she took a drink from the broken cup. "I tooked up with a Chinerman," went on her granddaughter, wearily, "an' lived with 'im for a bit it's orful, ain't it?" she said with a dreary laugh, as she saw the disgust on the lawyer's face. "But Chinermen ain't bad; they treat a pore girl a dashed sight better nor a white cove does.
He moved over toward the wheel. "Where is your Helma and Freda, Olaf?" he said. Huldricksson turned his head toward him. "The shining devil took them," he croaked. "The moon devil that spark " A yell broke from him. I had thrust the needle into his arm just above one swollen wrist and had quickly shot the drug through. He struggled to release himself and then began to rock drunkenly.
Three years ago, when they made it fifty-six hours, we were fools to keep up the pay. I said so then, at the conference, but they wouldn't listen to me. They listened this time. Holster and one or two others croaked, but we shut 'em up. No, they won't get any more pay, not a damned cent." Orcutt had listened patiently, lugubriously. "I told them that." "What did they say?"
There was no sign either of the servant or of the girl herself. He was now thoroughly alarmed. As he ran up the stairs he was confronted by what he took to be an old witch in a purple wrapper. She barred his way in a decidedly militant manner, her sunken black eyes flashing anger. She seemed about to spring at him. "Bien," she croaked, "qui diable are you?" He paused.
'There's fifty-one pounds in my dressing-bag, croaked Paul. 'When you've buried me and paid your bill, send the balance to my father. 'Buried you? said the doctor. 'You don't suppose you're going to peg out, do you? 'I hope so, said Paul. 'Oh, said the doctor, casting a shrewd, good-humoured eye at him, 'you feel like that, do you?
Streets did not exist; they were but tortuous prolongations of the roads which led to Rome; arteries formed at random, twisting hither and thither, following the sinuosities of a disorderly construction, and suddenly broadening into wide, untilled lands where the refuse of the houses was accumulating in piles, and where crows croaked by night, pecking at the carrion of dead dogs and asses.
Then he heard the report of a gun, and as he stepped from the burnt area on to the short grass that had offered no fuel for the fire, something came springing around him, and before he could pull trigger it was off with a yelp into the darkness under the canopy of smoke. "Coo-ee coo-ee! Compton ahoy! Compton!" Compton croaked and hobbled on.
"Dear me! what could I do over there in the mud with the queer green frogs?" laughed Kitty, as this song was croaked at her. "No, no, come and fly Through the sunny sky, Or honey sip From the rose's lip, Or dance in the air, Like spirits fair. Come away, come away; 'Tis our holiday."
Down it came to his hand. Once more the eyes of the waiter and myself rushed to it; the result was capable of no adjustment. I felt my heart bump painfully. The broad coin lay on his hand, pile uppermost. I drew the rest of the money to me." "'A thousand thanks, I croaked from a throat constricted with surprise. Rigobert swore." Cobb laughed. "Is that all that is troubling you?" he asked. "All!"
Fowler, "needed you more than I did." "Did they hurt you?" insisted Douglas. "No. Don't try to talk till you are rested, my boy." "That won't take long!" croaked Douglas. But, as a matter of fact, it was morning before he heard the preacher's story or told his own. He was warmed and fed enormously and rolled into a feather bed.
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