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They rise from the ruins of one abortive sentence, to launch forth into another with unabated vigour. They have all the manner of an orator. From the tone of their voice, you would expect a splendid period and lo! a string of broken-backed, disjointed clauses, eked out with stammerings and throat-clearings. Withal, they never cease to hope.
She was very kind, and meant to make herself very agreeable, and asked many questions, and volunteered various kinds of information as to what Christie might expect in her new place, which she might far better have withheld. Christie had little to say, and made her answers as quietly and briefly as possible.
"But why do you wish to find out her tribe?" said Mary. "Because I'm an old man, miss, and must soon expect to be gathered to my fathers, and then this poor little girl will be quite alone, unless I can marry her to some one before I die: and if I do marry her, why then she will leave me alone; but that can't be helped, I'm an old man, and what does it matter?"
"I am glad you are to be in the city. I hope to see you often." "You will, if I can have my way. I have hired a handsome and roomy flat on Madison Avenue, and I expect you to come and live with me." "I shall be delighted to do so if you will let me pay my share of the expenses." "You will pay me with your company. I will receive no other pay.
"If praise corrupts weak minds, it is the nourishment of great souls; and the grand deeds of heroes are ties which bind them to their country. To recapitulate them is to say that we expect from them a combination of those grand thoughts, those generous sentiments, those glorious deeds, so nobly rewarded by the admiration and gratitude of the public.
He had understood at last that there was nothing to expect from a longer stay, neither accounts nor money, nor truth of any sort, but he stayed on, exasperating Cornelius to the verge, I won't say of insanity, but almost of courage. Meantime he felt all sorts of dangers gathering obscurely about him.
I am main sorry, old hoss, that I've got you into this scrape, but I expect we shall get out again somehow. I don't think Rube Pearson is going to be wiped out yet. "I hoped not too. I warn't a bit tired of life, but I did not see my way out of it. However, I had one comfort: I knew if any two men could get out of an ugly mess, those two men were Rube and I.
"Well done!" said Jim. "Now, I must look to this dog." All his flank along the ribs was laid open, and Jim, producing a needle and thread, proceeded to sew it up. "Will you let me do that for you?" said Halbert. "I wish you would. I'm fond of the poor thing, and my hand shakes. You've seen the surgeons at work, I expect." "Yes, indeed."
"Gentlemen," he said, "I shall expect you to take Amochol, dead or alive, before this command marches into the Chinisee Castle. How you are to accomplish this business is your own affair. I leave you full liberty, except," turning to Boyd, "you, sir, are not to encumber yourself again with any such force as you now have with you. Twenty men are too many for a swift and secret affair.
"My, but it will seem funny to me down there with you gone! I expect you and I both been gettin' to be pretty much dead-wood in the place, the way the young fellows look at it, and the only one that'd miss either of us would be the other one! Have you told the ole man yet?" "Well " Adams spoke laboriously. "No. No, I haven't. I thought well, that's what I wanted to see you about."
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