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"Durn you, Lute! Don't you see the Jedge has something to say?" demanded the man behind the bar. Judge Fulsom slowly tapped his pipe on the arm of his chair. "If you all will keep still a second and let me speak," he began. "I want my rights," interrupted a man with a hoarse crow. "Your rights!" shouted the Judge. "You've got no right to a damned thing but a good horsewhipping!"
An' now youse say dat you'll be sorry fer der feller wot hired me ter do yer! I'd like ter know jes' how ye're put up." "I can't help being sorry to know that a fellow I have considered white and a friend is crooked and an enemy, if it is to prove that way." "Say, young feller, I likes you, durn me ef I don't!
'Durn me if I wasn't waiting for old Paisley to "But when I got that far," concluded Telemachus Hicks, "I thought somebody had shot this left ear of mine off with a forty-five. But it turned out to be only a lick from a broomhandle in the hands of Mrs. Hicks."
The old man wrote me that he was coming over in June, and said he'd take me home in August, whether I was done with my education or not, but durn him, he didn't come; never said why; just sent me a hamper of Sunday-school books, and told me to be good, and hold on a while.
A little beyond they met the brigade of Putnam. It was moving toward the city and had stopped for its noon mess. The odor of fresh beef and onions was in the air. "Cat's blood an' gunpowder!" said Solomon. "Tie me to a tree." "What for?" Preston asked. "I'll kill myself eatin'," the scout declared. "I'm so got durn hungry I kin't be trusted."
I knew the boys would pull it off for me, but I didn't reckon on it so durn soon." "Shut up!" ordered the man behind the gun, without moving his eyes from Flatray. "I'm a clam," retorted the other. "I'm waiting for those hands to go up; but I'll not wait long, seh." Jack's hands went up reluctantly. "You've got the call," he admitted.
Indeed it might complicate matters, for Jared had no belief in Jude rising above the dead level of St. Angé standards. "You're a durn fool!" he ejaculated at last, while the new impression of his daughter's beauty stirred him painfully. "You are a durn fool to fling yourself away on Jude when you might have done most anything with yourself if you was managed right."
I ain't sayin' they're all of 'em bad I c'n afford to give the devil his due and still say that men is the limit. The good ones is so durn scarce it ain't one woman in fifty lucky enough to git one. All I blame you for is stayin' with him as long as you have. I'd of quit long ago; I was beginnin' to think you never would come to your senses.
"He's got his chance," said Dade. "It's up to him." Young McCrae launched a string of epithets at him, the cream of the vocabularies of certain mule skinners of his acquaintance. Meanwhile his finger itched on the trigger. "You're a durn poor persuader," said McHale. "The kid will stick. Far's I'm concerned, if you want me, come and get me. Don't show your hide no more.
"Oh, durn their skins," he said in the cheerfulest way, turning to me with a smile, "they got me twice a splinter of a shell in the foot and a bullet through the calf of the same leg when I was being carried back from the firing line." "A sharpshooter?" "The son of a mongrel was up in a tree." "And you're walking back to Siboney. Wasn't there room for you to ride?"
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