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Updated: June 16, 2025
"However, that don't seem to occur to Tucson Jennie; an' Doc Peets who's the wisest sharp in Arizona allows to me afterwards as how Tucson Jennie is cuttin' the kyards with herse'f desp'rate to see whether she declar's war at the very time we makes our start. If she does, she turns the low kyard, for she don't say nothin', an' we gets away, an' all is profound peace.
Y' ain't never sure when you're like to strike them chewed-up features o' his after nightfall. Y' see he's kind o' quit drinkin' leastways, he's frekent sober. Mebbe he can't sleep easy. Ther's suthin' worritin' his head, sure. He 'pears ter me desp'rate restless kind o' like an old hoss wi' the bush-ticks. Et don't fit noways wi' the Joe Nelson I oncet knew. Mebbe it's religion.
Miss Foster no less. 'And what makes you think I won't? I asks her. 'Oh, of course I know you will, she says, 'and deliver it to him in good order, too. 'I'll try, I says, as though it was a desp'rate job I had on hand to put a seine in the hold and turn it over to another vessel when I met her. 'But what makes you worry about this partic'lar seine, Miss Foster? I asks."
What do you call reasonable?" "I'll sell 'em to you for for well, say nineteen dollars a share." "Humph! Don't bother me any more, Raish." "Well, say eighteen dollars a share. Lord sakes, that's reasonable enough, ain't it?" "Cruise along towards home, Raish. I've talked all the business I want to on Sunday. Good-by." "Look here, Jethro, I I'm hard up, I'm desp'rate, pretty nigh.
"Where was that?" demanded Mr. Hennessy, in great excitement. "Lord save us, but where was that?" "Th' Alger gyards," said Mr. Dooley, "bruk fr'm th' corral where they had thim tied up, atin' thistles, an' med a desp'rate charge on th' camp at Tampa.
"The avaricious gent adds a third king to his list an' feels like sunny weather. Cherokee picks up his hand after the draw, an' the avaricious gent, who's viewin' him sharp, notes that he looks a heap morbid. "All at once Cherokee braces up mighty savage, like he's ugly an' desp'rate about his bad luck. "'If this yere limit was any size at all, a blooded gent might stand some show.
At the conclusion of this address, Mr. Weller brushed his hat with his right elbow, and nodded benignly to Jinks, who had heard him throughout with unspeakable awe. 'Who is this man, Grummer? said the magistrate. 'Wery desp'rate ch'racter, your Wash-up, replied Grummer. 'He attempted to rescue the prisoners, and assaulted the officers; so we took him into custody, and brought him here.
Winthrop stirred restlessly and muttered. All at once the tramp realized that this easygoing young Easterner, wealthy, unused to hardship, delicate of health, had his battle to fight, as well. "I've knowed 'em to get over it," reflected Overland. "She's high and dry up here on the desert, and I reckon to go where it's higher. He's game, but he's desp'rate.
The idea is that the sheriff, arter getting his prisoner comf'ble in the stateroom, took off Jack's handcuffs and locked the door; that Jack, who was mighty desp'rate, bolted through the window into the river, and the sheriff, who was no slouch, arter him.
For, whatever's inside, it's going to make me one bit more desp'rate than I am now." He snatched up his hat, went out of the house, and walked along the road holding her letter pressed tight against his heart.
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