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The door opened, a man came out with a horde of children cowering at his heels, a volley of frightened words pouring from his mouth in a strange tongue. John Duff was plying him with questions in French, and presently the man became calmer and lapsed into broken English. "Kaskaskia yes, she is prepare. Many spy is gone out cross la riviere. But now they all sleep."
"You'll stay tied," retorted Duff grimly. "I knew it," sighed Reade. "What's the use of talking about honor and square dealing where a gambler is concerned? Loaded dice, marked cards or tying a man before you dare to hit him it's all the same to your kind."
Lots of duff I had it morning, noon and night, until I found something fresh to cook and I haven't made duff since. And here we are at the creek!" The party had for some time been walking near the creek, so close to it that it was within sound, although they seldom got a glimpse of water, save where the ti-tree scrub on the bank grew thinner or the light wind stirred an opening in its branches.
In speaking of the Yale-Princeton game at New Haven, some of the things incidental to victory were told that evening by Sam White, who said: "In the Yale game of 1911, Joe Duff, the Princeton guard, came over to Hart, Captain of the Princeton team, and said: "'Ed, I can't play any more. I can't stand on my left leg. "'That's all right, answered Hart, 'go back and play on your right one.
The mate roared with laughter, while Long Tom grinned broadly, and the sailors snickered. "I guess you'll do, my lad," exclaimed Mr. Duff in high good humor. "Come with me and I will show you what the doctor is. Bludson, have that peak block on the foresail gaff slung a little higher. I think she will hoist easier."
Jan had said somebody might be going dead while the parish was being scoured for him; and, in point of fact, Jan found, on reaching home, that that undesirable consummation was not unlikely to occur. As you will find also, if you will make an evening call upon Mrs. Duff. Mrs. Duff stood behind her counter, sorting silks. Not rich piece silks that are made into gowns; Mrs.
Duff got out of the way to enable the newly-introduced Head of the Department of Education to inform Miss Howe that he never went to the theatre in Calcutta himself, it was much too badly ventilated; and Stephen Arnold, arriving late, shot like an embarrassed arrow through the company to Alicia's side, and was still engaged there in grieved explanation when dinner was announced.
"I'd read books if I could stay awake long enough to do it and I'd find out what there was in 'em to make a good sensible man like Jim Blaisdell daft over 'em and Maggie Duff, too. Why, that little woman used to go hungry sometimes, when she was a girl, so she could buy a book she wanted. I know she did.
It is given to affection to hive sweetness like honeycombs. It is given to wit and imagination to produce perpetual joy and gladness. It is given to love in the person of a Duff, a Judson, and a Xavier to transform dark continents. Great is the power of love! "No abandoned boy in the city, no red man in the mountains, no negro in Africa can resist its sweet solicitude.
A little way from her was a fine cow feeding, with a long iron chain dragging after her. The girl was too far off for me to see her face very distinctly; but something in her shape, her posture, and the hang of her head, I do not know what, had attracted me. "Oh! there's Elsie Duff," said Turkey, himself forgetting his mother in the sight "with her granny's cow!
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