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He pushed up a chair and said: "Set down and make yourself comfortable, Jud. I'll see if I can't find a handful of buttons for you, and you can put 'em on the counter and play checkers with your nose." The men laughed at this, and Pike went on: "We met your pardner out here, the dark-complected feller.
And above Winona you'll have lovely prairies; and then come the Thousand Islands, too beautiful for anything; green? why you never saw foliage so green, nor packed so thick; it's like a thousand plush cushions afloat on a looking-glass when the water 's still; and then the monstrous bluffs on both sides of the river ragged, rugged, dark-complected just the frame that's wanted; you always want a strong frame, you know, to throw up the nice points of a delicate picture and make them stand out.
Fox looked up quickly at her daughter, but Dorcas continued quietly stirring, and without turning round. "Mahala Dorr, I guess," said she. "Wall, M'hala'll be, an' so'll others," answered Cely, prudently. "But I expect likely Swan'll do well, ef he don't die. They say the atemuspere is pison there! especially for dark-complected folks." To this hopeful remark Mrs.
From memory he quoted: "Medium height, slender, dark-complected, smooth-faced and about thirty-one years old; a good dresser and well educated; smokes cigarettes constantly; has one upper front tooth crowned with gold " He hesitated, searching his memory for more details. "Remember anything else about him that was striking?" prompted Green. "Let's see?" pondered Mr. Cassidy.
It showed the running figure of a negro woman carrying her personal property in a knotted handkerchief slung from a stick over her shoulder, and was supposed to represent "a fugitive slave." Mr. Dimmidge's eyes brightened. "I'll take that, too. It's a little dark-complected for Mrs. P., but it will do.
"First place, I stopped at the doctor's, because I felt they might fix up the marrying business some other time, but if a leg that's broke in the upper joint ain't set right, you can see a large dark-complected hunk of trouble over the party's left shoulder for the rest of his days.
Here her auditor expressed a desire to know something definite and certain about his future wife, whereupon the red-haired prophetess shuffled the cards again with the following result: “You will have but one more wife. She will be good and true, and will not be mixed up with any dark-complected man.
While he could not understand English, he knew by the tone of the conversation that these men were not the enemies of his weazened master. "Seen anything of a kind of dark-complected young fella wearin' a black Stetson and ridin' a blue roan?" queried Houck. "Where was he from?" countered The Spider. "The Concho, and ridin' a hoss with the Concho brand." "Wanted bad?" "Yes a whole lot.
And above Winona you'll have lovely prairies; and then come the Thousand Islands, too beautiful for anything; green? why you never saw foliage so green, nor packed so thick; it's like a thousand plush cushions afloat on a looking-glass when the water 's still; and then the monstrous bluffs on both sides of the river ragged, rugged, dark-complected just the frame that's wanted; you always want a strong frame, you know, to throw up the nice points of a delicate picture and make them stand out.
She has heard that "country people in furren parts a'most live upon slops and grass and eggs and frogs, and supposes that's the reason Frenchmen are so small and dark-complected."
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