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Don't I tell ye dey's gwineter kill Marse Harry!" Mrs. Cheston, sitting beside Kate, was the only one who seemed to understand. "Alec!" she called in her imperious voice "Alec! come to me at once! What is the matter?" The old butler shambled forward and stood trembling, the tears streaming down his cheeks. "Yes, mum I'm yere! Oh, can't ye git de colonel ain't nobody else'll do " "Is it a duel?"
We're all journeying to it together, anyway. And as for my business somebody else'll turn up. I always felt Algonquin would be too small for Rod. You'll see he'll make a name for himself that'll make us all proud." He did it splendidly, and Angus was comforted. He blamed himself for what he termed his lack of faith in the boy and in his Father.
Many a groan did Ned give when he studied the mounting cost sheets. Tom, however, was deaf to all his chum's protestations. "I had hoped your new bendable glass would more than repay the cost of your telescope," grumbled Ned. "That's gone, and it looks to me as though everything else'll go too. The Swift Construction Company will soon be bankrupt, Tom Swift, if you don't slow down!"
"Somebody else'll be sacked as well as the mate," said another. "We must take her back," said the captain, raising his voice to drown these mutterings. "Stand by there!"
They had 'er anchored up a ways here, right off Cerry's Hill, an' they was out in the skiff floppin' 'round some said fishin'." "They was bobbin' fer eels, that's wot they was doin'," said the other man. "Well, wotever they was doin' it was night 'n' thar was a storm. An' that's every bloomin' thing me or you or anybody else'll ever know about it.
Business and just business, that's all there is to her. How long are you goin' to keep her here?" "How long? Why, forever, I hope. What are you talkin' about?" The drummer winked. "That's all right," he observed. "You want to keep her, I don't doubt: but one of these days somebody else'll be wanting her more than you do. Mr. Right'll be coming along here some time and then good night!
Then she yielded to the inevitable and said tartly: "Very well, she can go, since nothing else'll please you." Anne flew out of the pantry, dripping dishcloth in hand. "Oh, Marilla, Marilla, say those blessed words again." "I guess once is enough to say them. This is Matthew's doings and I wash my hands of it.
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