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"Why, what all has Scannel ever done to you?" demanded the other, amazed. "Nothing, but I found out the other day that old Hargus poor old, broken-backed, half-starved Hargus I found out that it was Scannel that ruined him. Hargus and he had a big deal on, you know oh, ages ago and Scannel sold out on him. Great God, it was the dirtiest, damnedest treachery I ever heard of!
The old man sat erect and stared into the face of his guest, whose eyes had narrowed and whose lips had curved into an icy smile. "First, I'll give him the damnedest licking with my two fists that he ever got in his life; then I'll turn him over to the authorities." Daddy Dunnigan leaned forward and, laying a gnarled hand upon his shoulder, shook him roughly in his excitement: "Yer name, b'y?
Morgan rode a bay an' the Chief run it off after he shot Morgan. But Morgan didn't die right away, an' the Chief he had to slope, he said an' he did leavin' me an' Dolver to finish old Morgan. "We was tryin' our damnedest when this guy on the black horse pops up out of nowhere an' salivates Dolver." "Who was it?" This was Deveny.
His glance took in Undine, widened to astonishment and passed into apostrophe. "Well, if this ain't the damnedest !" He came forward and took her by both hands. "Why, what on earth are you doing down here?" She laughed and blushed, in a tremor at the odd turn of the adventure. "I live here. Didn't you know?" "Not a word never thought of asking the party's name."
Outside the plain was a vast sheet of snow, over which the cold wind moaned, and out of the east the night was coming. When "King" Plummet left Harley and Sylvia on the plain, he strode blindly forward, his heart filled with rage, grief, and self-accusation. He said aloud: "William Plummer, you are fifty years old, and you have made of yourself the damnedest fool in the whole Northwest!"
Then his pent-up emotions broke their bounds in one deep, shuddering breath, and he sank down beside the boulder, flung his tensed arms across it, and buried his face on them. At last he spoke, hoarsely, and without raising his head. "I done my damnedest ter kill ye, an' now yo' ... yo' saves Lou's life fer me.
"You can all four of you go plumb to hell!" "My dear friend!" the Count cried, shocked "you forget " "I forget nothing!" Lanyard cut in coldly "and my decision is final. Consider yourselves at liberty to go ahead and do your damnedest! But don't forget that it is you who are the aggressors.
The public-school spirit of pride in name and tradition was in each battalion of the New Army, extended later to the division, which became the unit of esprit de corps. They must not "let the battalion down." They would do their damnedest to get farther than any other crowd, to bag more prisoners, to gain more "kudos." There was rivalry even among the platoons and the companies.
He drank his ale from the hands of Sillabin, our impassive new butler, who had succeeded Sewis, the squire told him, like a Whig Ministry the Tory; proof that things were not improving. 'I thought, sir, things were getting better, said the captain. 'The damnedest mistake ever made, William. How about the Fall of Man, then? eh? You talk like a heathen Radical.
"Good God, Kate," exclaimed the woman irritably; "how many times must I tell you to unhook the traces before you do up the lines? One of these days you'll have the damnedest runaway in seven states."
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