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She had lost her fear of the automobile and had even begun to hint to the miller that she wished he would buy a small car. "Land o' Goshen!" grumbled Uncle Jabez, "what next? I s'pose you'd want to learn to run the dratted thing, Alvirah Boggs?" "Well, Jabez Potter, I don't see why not?" she had confessed. "Other women learns." "Huh!
It's a forger; and I didn't send them off on a false scent O no! I thought there was no use in having them over our way; so I give them "very valuable information," Mr. Lavender said, and tipped me a tizzy for myself; and they're off to Luton. They showed me the 'andcuffs, too the other one did and he clicked the dratted things on my wrist; and I tell you, I believe I nearly went off in a swound!
"Oh, look out, Mother!" wailed Father, rushing after her, his own hands going down to his sides in his agitation. "Look out, aunty!" echoed Crook McKusick. "That's a bad actor, that guy." But Mother continued straight at the gun, snapping: "Don't point that dratted thing at me. You bother me." The sheriff wavered. The gun dropped. "Who are you?" he demanded. "Never you mind who I am, young man.
The boy had a winning way with him, and but for his hatred of Victor, who was soft and womanish, but extremely tenacious, Marshall would have liked to have had a hand in his upbringing. As it was, he could only look on from afar and condemn the vagaries of "that dratted boy," prophesying disaster whenever he saw him and hoping that Sir Beverley might not live to see it.
I wish to ask you respectfully respectfully, mind who wouldn't chuck a dratted job like this? 'Tain't safe, s'elp me, it ain't! Only I am one of them fearless fellows . . .
"The last time I saw that Pepper in town he grinned at me in a way that made me want to break my old umbrel' over his dratted head!" "I don't care," said Hiram, sullenly. "I don't want to sit idle all winter. I'll cut the logs, anyway, and draw 'em out from time to time. If we have to leave, why, we have to, that's all."
"I told yer I never could stand it here amongst all these dratted women-folks," Abe would declare. "It's all your fault that I didn't go to the poorhouse in peace."
Go on, get out before I put the dog on you!" He waved an imperious hand at Bruce. "Hullo, Bude," said the boy, "you've grown very inhospitable all of a sudden!" "God bless my soul if it isn't young Mr. Wright!" exclaimed the butler. "And I thought it was another of those dratted reporters.
Thereupon Prescott fell back for an instant, darting over to a pile of boxes and picking up the air rifle that had been brought along. "Let's see if this air rifle is working?" pondered Dick aloud. He took quick aim and pressed the trigger. "You dratted little pirate!" roared Mr. Fits, tensing for a leap forward. "I'll show you "
The smoke hung lazily, drifting into vague patterns and then began to coalesce into a green houri without costume. He swatted at it negligently. "Dratted sylphs. There's no controlling the elementals properly any more." He didn't seem too displeased, however, as he watched the thing dance off. Then he sobered.
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