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Don't you remember how skeered the Boston people were durin' the war with Spain? Feared the Spanish shells might go a little high an' smash up the town? Islands nothin'! They've got away out into deep water by this time, boys. 'y Gosh, I'm anxious about Rosalie. S'posin' that derned boat struck a rock er upset er somethin'! They never could swim ashore."
The answer took my breath: "Pretty soon after I looked at him through that knot-hole, w'en you had put something in his w'isky, you derned Borgia!" Recovering somewhat from my surprise at this astounding charge, I was half-minded to throttle the audacious accuser, but was restrained by a sudden conviction that came to me in the light of a revelation.
A rough sense of justice in the community, while doubting her ability to take care of the whole fortune, suggested that she ought to be content with three hundred thousand dollars. "She's bound to throw even THAT away on some derned skunk of a man, natoorally; but three millions is too much to give a chap for makin' her onhappy. It's offerin' a temptation to cussedness."
I was brought up ter fight, an' fight like ther devil hisself when it come ter fightin', but I reckon I'm too much o' a derned coward ter murder cold." "Well, this is one o' ther times when it's got ter be did, an' I reckon we might as well be about it. Git ready." "No, sir, I'm not goin' ter do it." "Tom, yer a fool.
"Why the deuce didn't he shoot?" indignantly demanded another, as a tale of escape from heathen pursuers was read. "Shot up wimmen in a derned dark room! Well, I'll be durned!" soliloquized a yellow-haired Missourian, as Thompson read an account of a Zenana. "Reckon they'd set an infernal sight higher by wimmen if they wuz in the diggins' six months hey, fellers?"
"What you so derned anxious to sell for?" demanded Anderson Crow, listening from a distance to see if he could detect a blemish in the horse's breathing gear. At a glance, the buggy looked safe enough. "I'm anxious to sell for cash," replied the stranger; and Anderson was floored. The boy who snickered this time had cause to regret it, for Mr.
And more than that, they got to listen to the testimony of a lot of policemen, and their own derned fool lawyers, tryin' to deprive them of their bread and butter, and the judge's instructions that nobody pays any attention to except the shorthand reporter, and them just settin' there sort of helpless and not even able to say a word in their own behalf because the law says they're innocent till they're proved guilty, why, I tell you, Mr.
"Stern all!" shouted the old man, throwing another startled, backward glance at the Queen of Sheba. "Drat the derned old critter! Don't she know nothin' at all? Tunis! Do you see what's goin' to happen?"
I have not brought Dick Lane back, but I hope I come from him bearing something of his loyalty and simple faith. If you ever can learn to trust me again if you ever can learn to love me " he said to Echo humbly. "Don't be a derned fool, Jack," blurted Slim; "can't you see she ain't never loved no one else?" "Echo, is it so?" asked Jack eagerly. Slim grinned.
I don't mind the money, Eva; I jest hate to think of losin' her, now that she's such a credit to us. Besides, I'm up a stump about next year." "Well, what happens then?" "Derned if I know. That's what's worryin' me." "I don't see why you " "Certainly you don't. You never do. I've got to do all the thinkin' fer this fambly. Next year she's twenty-one years old an' her own boss, ain't she?
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