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It would be difficult to state which face expressed the most of embarrassed concern as they stood silently gazing at each other. "I was comin' over to your house," said Hiram. "I was startin' for yourn," said the Cap'n. Then both, like automatons pulled by the same string, dove hand into breast-pocket and pulled out a crumpled letter. "Well, I'll be dummed!" quoth the two in one voice.
"Dummed if she hain't got red hair," was the deacon's astonished contribution. It was as near to congratulations as the deacon ever came. "The ox is dressed and hung," said Pliny Pickett, with the air of a man announcing that the country has been saved from destruction.
At first he could not find any word in his vocabulary big enough to swear by, but after a little one came to him, and what do you think it was? Jerrie could not guess, and Tom continued. He said, "by the great Peterkin!" and then he swowed, and vowed, and snummed, and vummed, and dummed, and finally said he was glad of it, and had always known you were a Tracy.
"Ain't jest eggzac'ly used t' this kind uv a sickle," said D'ri, as he felt the edge of his sabre, "but I 'll be dummed ef it don't seem es ef I 'd orter be ruther dang'rous with thet air 'n my hand." He knew a little about rough fighting with a sabre. He had seen my father and me go at each other hammer and tongs there in our door-yard every day of good weather.
As the afternoon was stretching toward evening, Scattergood sauntered into Sheriff Ulysses Watts's barn. "Who's feedin' and waterin' Asa Levens's stock?" he asked. "Dummed if I didn't clean forgit 'em," confessed the sheriff. "Any objection if I look after 'em, Sheriff? Any logical objection? Hoss might need exercisin'. Can't never tell. Want I should drive up and do what's needed to be done?"
'Tain't all pleasure, neither. In a sight of trouble this minnit." "I want to know," said Scattergood. "Stand to lose my job," said John, sadly. "Dunno where I'll find me another." "What you been doin', eh? What got you in bad?" "One of them dummed gold shipments from the state bank. Hadn't ought to speak about it, 'cause the comp'ny's bein' awful secret. Hain't lettin' it out."
What does the girl mean? Is she crazy? Is she a fool? Is she in love with some other idiot? 'I th-think so, yes; th-though it did not occur to me then, Billy answered, very meekly; 'and if so she ca-can't care for me any mo-more that I ca-can care for any other girl. 'And you are a fool, too, was the affectionate rejoinder. 'I'll be dummed if you ain't a pair! Who is the lucky man?
When I get back " But the rest was lost, for distance had overcome her voice. Ellinwood stood and grinned benignly at his goddess. Then he slapped his thigh with an eleven-inch hand and made a noise with his mouth like a man clucking to his horse. "Sprightly as a gal, she is," he allowed. "Dummed if she ain't!"
Want to go to bed, I s'pose. Well, come along." He took up one of the absurd little lamps and tried to get more light out of it. "Dummed if a white bean wouldn't be better." "Spit on it!" suggested Albert. "I'd throw the whole business out o' the window for a cent," growled the man. "Here's y'r cent," said the boy.
You're a dummed good girl! The best and squarest yes, and the spunkiest little girl I ever saw. You're a brick." "I'm awful sorry I went into the parlor, Cap'n Gould." "Blast the parlor! I don't care if you stay in there a week and smash everything in it. And and, see here, Mary-'Gusta, don't you call me 'Cap'n Gould' any more. Call me 'Uncle Shad, will you?" Just before bedtime that night Mr.
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