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"There was two." McKee was silent. "Bud Lane was the other man," hazarded Slim. "No " began Buck, but Slim interrupted him. "He was with you that night. He came to the weddin' with you. It ain't no use in denyin' it. I've been thinkin' it all out. I was fooled by Jack's pacing hoss. You and Bud " Here McKee interrupted with a solemn denial.
"There's a pretty kettle o' fish!" exclaimed Ruby aloud. "So 'tis, lad; so 'tis," said Bremner, who at that moment had placed a superb pot of codlings on the fire; "though why ye should say it so positively when nobody's denyin' it, is more nor I can tell." Ruby laughed, and retired to the mortar-gallery to work at the forge and ponder.
But let him beware how he cavils at his own handiwork. 'Tis not for the untrained man under thirty-five to complain of us, when now he knows why we are so. "I'm not denyin' that women are foolish," says George Eliot. "God Almighty made 'em to match the men." "Last night in blue my little love was dressed; And as she walked the room in maiden grace, I looked into her fair and smiling face.
"First inflict punishment on you for denyin' Miss Gracie Sheraton pretties' girl whole C'fedrate States America. Girls like John Cowles too much! Must mash John Cowles! Must mash John Cowles sake of Gracie Sheraton, pretties' girl in whole wide worl'!" He came toward me as best he might, his hands clenched.
There was another short silence, which presently Bill opened his lips to break. "Lin, it makes me sick to quit. I ain't denyin' thet for a long time I've had hopes of ketchin' Wildfire. He's the grandest hoss I ever laid eyes on. I reckon no man, onless he was an Arab, ever seen as good a one. But now, thet's neither here nor there.... We've got to hit the back trail."
"Ye're a master-hand at talkin'," retorted Captain Sam. "I ain't denyin' of it; but it was luck, good luck, that's all."
Don't you understand? 'No, Passon, sez I, 'I can't say as I do! Then he laughed, but sad like an' went away with his 'ead down as he's got it now. Something's wrong with him an' it's all since Miss Vancourt came. She's a real worry to 'im I 'spect, an' it's true enough the place ain't like what it was a month ago. Yet there's no denyin' she's a sweet little lady for all one can say!"
"I'm the worst in the world I'm the worst in the world," replied Skinadre; "but it wasn't till I knew that you'd be put out o' your farm that I offered for it, and now you've taken away my carrecther, an' spoken ill o' me everywhere, an' said that I bid for it over your heads; ay, indeed, an' that it was your husband that set me up, by the way oh, yes an' supposin' it was, an' I'm not denyin' it, but is that any raisin that I'd not bid for a good farm, when I knew that yez 'ud be put out of it?"
I sez, an' at my voice she turned her face an' looked a little frightened, "I ain't denyin' that I'd rather marry you than be sure of gettin' into Heaven; but I want you to remember one thing, an' that is that if I ever do marry you it will be because you ask me to yourself."
"He seems to have gone off awfully sudden at the last. I thought you said he was getting on well when you went down to see him awhile ago?" "Bedad, I did that, sir; father's no denyin' it," answered the Irishman, off-hand. "But I niver s'id he'd git over it, cap'en.
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