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He looked across the lake, and essayed a yawn with feeble success. "There was a good many standin' around when I got there. What sort o' lookin' felluh was he?" "I just told ye; with a sandy mustache, short, and middlin' heavy set." "Sh-h-h!" said Parker, reaching for his gun. Idy stopped the horses.
He took off his hat, and nervously wiped the damp hair from his forehead. His daughter did not look at him. Ricardo could see the frayed plume on her jaunty turban quiver. "My fawther here's a temperance man, a prohibitionist: he don't believe in wine; he hates it; he wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. That felluh Barden knowed it didn't he, pappy? He lied!"
"It's always seemed to me that a felluh who rigs himself out like that has got a lot of show-off stuff in him." "The first time I clapped me eyes on wan av them cowbhoys I thought so, too," said Carson. "That was back on the other section. But I seen so manny av them rigged out like thot, thot I comminced to askin' questions. It's a domned purposeful rig, mon.
He helped set 'em out, an' he says they got the cuttin's from your folks; but I thought he wuz sayin' it just to plague me, so my fawther here thought he'd come an' ask. If they are wine-grapes, that felluh Barden lied didn't he, pappy?" The Mexican gazed at her pensively through the smoke of his cigarette. "Yass, 'm," he said slowly and softly "yass, 'm; Ah gass he tell good deal lies.
"I saw what happened at the monorail station," drawled the third member of Section 42-D, leaning against the bannister of the moving belt. "By the craters of Luna, that Manning felluh sure is a hot operator." "We found out for ourselves," grunted Astro. "Say, since we're all bunkin' togethuh, let's get to knowin' each othuh. My name's Phil Morgan, come from Georgia. Where you all from?"
I feel as if I'd been scared out o' ten years' growth." As they drove home in the chill, yellow evening, Idy turned to her lover, and asked abruptly, "Who was that felluh?" "What felluh?" "The young felluh with the sandy mustache, the one that stopped the team." Parker's manner had been evasive from the first, but at this the evasiveness became a highly concentrated unconcern.
"I s'pose you think I'm awful touchy," she broke out at last, "an' mebbe I am; but before I promise to marry anybody, there's two things he's got to promise me he's got to sign the pledge, an' he's got to get even with that felluh Barden." Parker's face, which had brightened perceptibly at the first requirement, clouded dismally at the second.
"You drop that, Parker Lowe!" she said, with dignity. "I ain't so far gone as all that. There's that Gonsallies felluh lookin' at us. You just straighten up, or I'll hit ye a cut with this whip!" Her lover gave a short, embarrassed laugh. "Oh, come now, Idy; Ricardo don't understand United States." "Well, I don't care whether he understands United States or not.
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