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"Why d-do you speak of such things?" she repeated with a fierce little indrawn breath "why do you? when you know when I said explained everything?" She looked at him fearfully: "You are somehow spoiling our friendship," she said; "and I don't exactly know how you are doing it, but something of the comfort of it is being taken away from me and don't! don't! don't do it!"
He proffered the basket. "No, thank you," Hall answered. He resumed his walk up the highway with the boy at his side. "D-do you live around here," he asked. "Just up the road a ways." The lad studied his companion for a minute. "You stutter, don't you?" "A little." "There was a boy in my class who used to stutter.
"I don't see what YOU are making such a fuss about," he said unfeelingly. "He wasn't your cat." "But I l-l-oved him," sobbed Sara, "and I always feel bad when my friends d-do." "I wish we could believe that cats went to heaven, like people," sighed Cecily. "Do you really think it isn't possible?" Uncle Blair shook his head. "I'm afraid not.
Wouldn't surprise me if he turned into a killer of the worst kind." Bob's eyes fastened to his uneasily. "You think he's after me?" "I think he'll d-do to watch." "Yes, but " Blister rolled a cigarette and lit it before he asked casually, "Stayin' long in town?" "Leavin' to-day for the ranch." "What size gun you carry for rattlesnakes?" "Mine's a forty-five."
"You are fooling me," she said. "You are going into some danger or other." "I'm going s-s-straight into the infernal regions," he answered languidly. "D-do you happen to have any friends there you want to send that ivy to? You n-needn't pull it all down, though." She had fiercely torn off a handful of the climber from the pillar, and now flung it down with vehement anger.
She now leaned comfortably against the wall beside the sink, her eyes closed and her mind oblivious to her surroundings, and dimly hearing through her dreams that sibilant call: "A-A-A-Alfy!" Then her ear was pinched and she brought back to reality. "What you doin' to me, Montgomery Sturtevant? I'll tell your grandma!" "Ain't meanin' to hurt you, A-A-Alfy. I Don't you d-do that.
I turned instantly, and, perceiving something black, concluded I was discovered by some spy, employed to watch for that purpose; aroused at this conjecture, by which the reputation of the virtuous Narcissa appeared in jeopardy, I drew my sword, and would have sacrificed him to her fame, had not the voice of Strap restrained my arm, it was with great difficulty he could pronounce, "D d d-do! mum um um murder me if you please."
I I loved you so dearly so fearlessly " Tears blinded her; she bent her head, and they fell on the soft delicate stuff of her gown, flashing downward in the sunlight. "Dear," he said gently, "nothing is altered between us. I love you in that way, too." "D-do you really?" she stammered, shrinking away from him. "Truly. Nothing is altered; nothing of the bond between us is weakened.
"Damn it, I believe my pistol was fixed to overshoot in order to save that fellow. I never missed such a shot before." Moorehouse broke in upon his raving, so astounded at these intemperate words as to stutter in his speech. "D-do you d-dare to in-insinuate, Major Brennan" he began, "that I have " he paused, his mouth wide open, staring toward the shed.
"They couldn't be better matched," said Nestie. "Speug and Jock they've had l-lots of things in hand together, and they'll d-do it yet. See!" and at that moment Speug sent a ball to the boundary. Now there were only seventeen, instead of thirty-three runs to make.
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