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The sister of Fanchet, the mail robber, was beautiful, but her beauty had failed to save Fanchet. The Law had taken him in spite of the tears in Carmin Fanchet's big black eyes, and in that particular instance he was the Law. And Carmin Fanchet was pretty deucedly pretty. Even the Old Man's heart had been stirred by her loveliness. "A shame!" he had said to Carrigan. "A shame!"
After all, there was no fire to be playing with. The coldness of being absolutely alone again chilled through her whole body, and she shivered. "Now," said Traill everything was ready at his hand. "The making of coffee's the simplest thing in the whole world; that's why everybody finds it so deucedly difficult. We'll put this kettle on first."
I take odds you'll exclaim, 'twixt a grunt and a stare, 'Gottferdummi' the beggar's gone mad, I declare, And his wits must have followed his 'peeper' not so; He will give you the wherefore, will William Barlow Viz: he's so seedy and blue, he's so deucedly triste, He's so d d out of sorts, he's so d d out of tune, That for mere consolation he cannot resist The temptation of holding with Tommy commune.
He hoped they would not discover his absence from the veranda until he was better; it was deucedly awkward that he should have had this attack just now and after he had made so light of his previous exertions. They would think him an effeminate fraud, these two bright, active women and that alert, energetic man.
Moreover, Lord Dreever was not by nature an introspective young man, but, examining his position as he walked along, he found himself wondering whether it was not a little unheroic. He came to the conclusion that perhaps it was. Of course, Uncle Thomas could make it deucedly unpleasant for him if he kicked. That was the trouble.
But by this time we were deucedly tired, and Massa Aaron's mansion, situated on its little airy hill above a sea of canes, which rose and fell before the passing breeze like the waves of the ocean, was the most consolatory object in the view; and thither we drove is fast as our wearied horses could carry us, and found every thing most carefully prepared for our reception.
"Of course one talks like that when one hasn't enough to eat and can't sell a picture. I don't pretend to have altered my opinion about photogravures, and all that. But come now, the thing itself? Be honest, Warburton. Is it bad, now? Can you look at that picture, and say that it's worthless?" "I never said anything of the kind." "No, no! You're too deucedly good-natured.
Into the look of mingled admiration and pity with which Holderness had regarded Henry crept a touch of defiance. "You're deucedly confident, old chap," he said. "You don't seem to think that we amount to much here, and yet Colonel de Peyster has undoubtedly saved you from the Indians. You should be grateful to him for that much." Henry laughed. This ingenuous youth now amused him.
"Deucedly glad to 'ave a chance to serve you, don't you know. Now, just what is your plan again, gentlemen?" The plan was carefully gone over, this time with Willis as spokesman. Mr. Pembroke listened carefully till he had finished, then he replied, "Ba Jove, I like the idea, it 'as points to it. I'd like to furnish the necessary lumber for the desired addition myself.
"Seems deucedly like it," assents Mr. M . "I said, just now, that, being a Russian, he was sure to be courteous and agreeable, if nothing else; but it seems as if there are exceptions to this rule as to others;" and, talking together, we try to find consolation in the thought that he may be merely eccentric, and turn out a very good sort of fellow after all.
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