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Kendric could scarcely do less than look at the wound. Presently he straightened up with a grunt of disgust. "It's only a flesh wound," he said coolly. "The bone isn't even touched and it's a clean hole. You'll last for a lot of devilment yet." Rios sat up. He felt of his hurt with tender fingers and slowly the fear went out of his look and his old craft and hate came back.
We watched the distant figures, and presently they flashed into the water. "Oh, me!" sighed Gazza. "If I were a boy!" Hortense looked at him. "You would be afraid." The devilment had come out again, suddenly and brilliantly: "I never have been afraid!" declared Gazza. "You would not jump in after me," said Hortense, taking his measure more and more provokingly. Gazza laid his hand on his heart.
He looked up to see Yasmini's face framed in the opening, and he thought there was more devilment expressed in it, for all her loveliness, than in her voice that never quite lost its hint of laughter. He did not answer, and the trap-door closed again.
O, but I'll soak 'em for that yet." "Trouble is," said Si, laughing, "the boys've bin layin' around doin' nothin' too long. They're fuller o' devilment than a dog is of fleas." "But I haint told you half," continued the Orderly-Sergeant.
"Hit's a comfort to know you won't be mixed up in all this devilment," he said; and then, as though he had found more light in the gloom: "Hit's a comfort to know the new rider air shorely a-preachin' the right doctrine, 'n' I want ye to go hear him. Blood for blood-life fer a life! Your grandad shot ole Tom Lewallen in Hazlan. Ole Jack Lewallen shot him from the bresh.
For hours he would sit in his chair, twisting his hair in little ringlets. Then I used to say, "Bill is studying up some new devilment." His clothes were always several sizes too large, and his face was as smooth as a woman's and never had a particle of hair on it. Canada was a slick one.
He was sufficiently master of himself to know that no harm could come of that. His absolute love for his wife shielded him from all danger. The very thought of infidelity nauseated him. And then, as the idea became more familiar to him, other emotions succeeded that of anger. There was an audacity about his old flame, a spirit and devilment, which appealed to his sporting instincts.
Why, for three months after I married Molly I didn't touch a single drop, and I'd have kept it up, too, except for grandpa's devilment. It's his fault; he drove me back to it as clear as day." His weak mouth quivered, and he sucked in his breath in the way he had inherited from Fletcher.
There is nothing that these fellows are not capable of; they seem to do mischief out of pure devilment." Ned had scarcely finished his meal when a tramping of horses was heard outside. "The saints protect us!" the landlord exclaimed. "Here are either these fellows coming back again, or another set doubtless just as bad." A minute later the door opened and a party of a dozen soldiers entered.
He had seen it silent in the dry season; he had seen it divided by the great rain-wall and answering the downpour with snow-white billows of mist and spray; he had heard it roaring in the dark; it had trapped him, beaten him with its wet, green hands, sucked him down in its quagmires, shown him its latent, slow, but unalterable ferocity, its gloom, its devilment.
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