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"You're just a little too previous in your talk, I reckon, Brant," returned Gilroy lazily, "and as to legality, I reckon we stand on the same level with yourself, just here. Beginnin' with what you came for: as we don't know where your Jim Hooker is, and as we ain't done anythin' to HIM, we don't exackly see what we could do with YOU in his place.
"There was Jackson," said the sailor, slowly; "and there was Fall; and there was a steerage passenger seems to me his name was Smith, but I can't rec'llect exackly." "It was not Stretton?" "No, it warn't no name like that, ma'am." "Then they are both lost," said Elizabeth, rising up with a deadly calm in her fixed eyes and white face; "both lost in the great, wild sea.
In her eyes there was a far-away light as of a seeress groping. "I don't just know exackly, but I know there's somep'n if we could only think of it if we could just " And her voice became inaudible, as in dreamy concentration she seated herself upon the discarded ice-cream freezer, and rested her elbows upon her knees and her chin upon the palms of her hands.
"Well, arter all, Josey's nothin' but a meanderin' old idgit!" he thought angrily: "'Ere 'ave I been an' took 'im for a wise man wot would know exackly 'ow to begin and ask for the sparin' of the old trees, and if he ain't gone on the wrong tack altogether and made the poor little lady cry!
She says I'm stodgy; but I say it's better to be practical than flighty. Don't you think so, Alf?" "Exackly!" said Alf, in a tone of the gravest assent. "Exackly." vi "I mean," pursued Emmy, "you must have a little common-sense. But she's been spoilt she's the youngest. I'm a little older than she is ... wiser, I say; but she won't have it.... And Pa's always made a fuss of her.
He felt that he was allowing himself to be more wrought up than was good for him, and this added to his annoyance. She considered this, sullenly. "I'm not exackly straight in my mind what I understand and what I don't understand, yet," she replied. "But I got this much straight: If I done what I done to please you, I done it to please me, too!"
When the PEPLE cheer me I feel pleesed, fur I know they meen it; but if these one-horse offishuls cood know how I see threw all their moves & understan exackly what they air after, & knowd how I larft at 'em in private, thayd stop kissin my hands & fawnin over me as thay now do. But you know, Mr.
"Not exackly; but, you see, the rain's turned out a few, and some on 'em, folks says, was buried with lots o' goold platted up in their pig-tails. Now, if any money's washed out, there's no harm in a body's pickin' of it up, as I see." "What luck have you had?" asked Gilbert. "Nothin' to speak of; a few buttons, and a thing or two. But I say, Mr. Gilbert, what luck ha' you had?"
But the words sufficed; and Herbert was so perfectly intimidated that he was even unresentful. "Well, you can have your ole two dollars and a half, whether you got a right to it or not," he said. "But you got to carry the basket." "No," said Florence. "This has got to be done right, Herbert. We're partners now and everything's got to be divided just exackly even.
Thus speaking, she took the poem from her pocket and with dignity held it forth to her cousin. "What's that?" Herbert inquired, not moving a hand. He was but an amateur, yet already enough of an editor to be suspicious. "It's a poem," Florence said. "I don't know whether I exackly ought to have it in your ole newspaper or not, but on account of the family's sake I guess I better. Here, take it."
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