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He took his knife from one pocket and from another a twist of tobacco, and, cutting off a mouthful, began his story: "You see, me and Bud Merritt and Joe Dorman have most generally agreed on paternage, and that was all right. You are well fixed. You don't want the bother of them little giblets of paternage. We've 'tended to 'em for what there was in 'em and for the good of the party.
Latham's plan of soon closing her cottage and transferring the servants to Newport, with the exception of the stable men and a couple of caretakers, was announced, as she was going abroad for the baths. The same day Lavinia Dorman received an urgent note from Sylvia, asking her "when and where she could see her alone, if, as she thought likely, she did not feel inclined to come to the house."
Dorman squirmed away from her. "I los' one shiny penny, Be'trice and I couldn't open de door. Help me find my shiny penny." Keith picked him up and set him upon one square shoulder. "We'll take you up to your auntie, first thing, young man." "I want my one shiny penny. I want it!" Dorman showed symptoms of howling again. "We'll come back and find it. Your auntie wants you now, and grandmama."
A man rode quietly over the grass and stopped two rods away, that he might fill his hungry eyes with the delicious loveliness of his Heart's Desire. "Got a bite yet?" Dorman turned and wrinkled his nose, by way of welcome, and shook his head vaguely, as though he might tell of several unimportant nibbles, if it were worth the effort.
I am bruised all over, and I wonder some of my ribs are not broken; at present they hurt me a good deal more than this wound in the hip. Still, that is only an affair of a day or two. Who have been killed besides the major?" "Dorman, Phillips, and Henderson are killed.
You'll fall under the wheel, and then auntie would not have any dear little boy. Dorman, do you hear me? Redmond, do take that child down! How I wish Parks were here. I shall have nervous prostration within a fortnight." Sir Redmond Hayes plucked at the white collar, and the small boy retired between two masculine forms of no mean proportions. His voice, however, rose higher.
"He's doing his best to cure those beautiful eyes of his," said Bandy Robinson. "I'm giving it to you straight that he was out to-day and went down to the nearest gun store," declared Dorman. "Collins says he bought a Winchester rifle, a shotgun, two revolvers, a bowie knife, a slungshot, and a set of brass knuckles." "Wo-o-oh!" groaned Dismal Jones.
Nellie looked at him, shrugged her shoulders, and said, "Here." "You were in the Carquinez Woods with Low Dorman; you went there in disguise; you've met him there before. He is your clandestine lover; you have taken pledges of affection from him; you have" "Stop!" she said. He stopped. "Did he tell you this?" she asked, with an expression of disdain. "No; I overheard it.
Dorman held to the horn with one hand, to the reins with the other, and let his small body swing forward and back with the motion of the horse, in exaggerated imitation of his friend, Mr. Cameron. At the gate he allowed himself to be set down without protest, smiled importantly through the bars, and thrust his arm through as far as it would reach, that he might wave good-by.
Dorman swished his rod in unpleasant proximity to his divinity's head. "Because, honey" Beatrice dodged "you might step on a snake, a rattlesnake, that would bite you." "How would it bite, Be'trice?" "With its teeth, of course; long, wicked teeth, with poison on them." "I saw one when I was ridin' on a horse wis Uncle Dick.
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