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I think I shan't mind you." Anyway, Mrs. Friend took it as a feeler and a friendly one. She stammered something in reply, and then sat silent while guardian and ward plunged into a war of chaff in which first the ward, but ultimately the guardian, got the better.
I am glad of it, for Stuart is the best cavalry officer ever foaled in North America!" The morning of the 6th of May was ushered in with thunder. The battle of the preceding day had been a sort of "feeler" now the real struggle came. By a curious coincidence, Grant and Lee both began the attack and at the same hour.
"The fellow is all well enough, for aught I know, but he has wheedled the colonel out of fifty thousand dollars, and I can never forgive him for that," said Jaspar, in what was intended for a playful tone, but which was designed as a "feeler" of the attorney's conscience. "But there is still an immense property left, even after deducting the liberal charitable donations," said Maxwell.
If he wanted more, I'd let him have an eighty j'inun'" "I'd like t' try that m'self," said Lime, as a feeler. The old fellow said nothing in reply for a moment. "Ef you had a team an' tools an' a woman, I'd jest as lief you'd have it as anybody." "Sell me your blacks, and I'll pay half down the balance in the fall.
Rue Barree shook her head. The gardener smiled. She evidently did not want the pansies. She had bought many pots of pansies there, two or three every spring, and never argued. What did she want then? The pansies were evidently a feeler toward a more important transaction. The gardener rubbed his hands and gazed about him.
But now Blackhawk was not satisfied, and while he did not care to offer another deadly challenge, by way of a feeler he offered, some days after the peace, to try a friendly throw for scalps. "Fists left out!" Just what Beaver wanted, and the biggest boy was sent flying.
"Why, Nan, I thought you were fond of me!" and Tommy's voice was full of tender reproach. "If you mind Jack's laughing I don't care for you one bit." "Then you may take back your old ring; I won't wear it any longer;" and Tommy plucked off a horsehair pledge of affection which Nan had given him in return for one made of a lobster's feeler.
Impersonal they were and yet they were sexed, female and male. Frank looked about him carefully. A little distance away, the trail sent off a tiny feeler into the jungle. It dipped into one of the pretty glades which diversified the flatness of the island. Creeping slowly, Frank followed the sound. Half-way down the slope, Honey Smith was standing, staring upwards.
Baffled upon this interesting point, Churchill retired to write his interview; but as he rested his pad upon the car-seat and sharpened his pencil he flung out a feeler or two. "I say, Hobart," he said to the mystery man, who sat just in front of him, "I think there's something at the bottom of this Plummer revolt that we haven't probed.
It twisted back out of the way, like a startled worm; and Little Sword lunged at the next one. He pierced it all right, but at a point where it was so thick that the stroke did not sever it, and the tip, curling over, fastened upon him. At the same moment another feeler fixed itself upon the base of his tail, half paralyzing his struggles. "Little Sword was now being drawn implacably downwards.
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