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The commonplace remark saved the situation from bathos, as I am now certain shrewd old Yank knew it would. "What are you going to do with your shares, boys?" asked Talbot after a while. "Going back home, or mining? Speak up, Yank." Yank spat accurately out the open window. "I've been figgering," he replied. "And when you come right down to it, what's the use of going back?
"Well," echoed the foreman; and the other noted the quiet derision in his tone, "seems to me you've done a deal of figgering." Tresler nodded. Jake turned away with something very like a smile. Evidently he had decided upon the course to be pursued.
A couple of years after that, when they was both about twenty-five or six years old, they run acrost each other accidental in New York one autumn. The doctor, he was there figgering on going to work at something or other, but they was so many things to do he was finding it hard to make a choice.
He groaned and commenced to develop lumbago symptoms, but she cured 'em in a hurry by remarking that her doctor's book said vig'rous exercise was the best physic, for that kind of disease, and so he must chop hard. She waited till she heard the ax "chunk" once or twice, and then she went into the house, figgering that she'd gained the first lap, anyhow.
"I've done with this fool talk," Steve cried almost roughly. "I've listened to too much already. I'm not figgering to let you break things between us. There's more than you and me in it. There's that poor little kiddie in the other room. Say, I've seen this coming. I've seen it coming weeks. I've seen a whole heap that hurts a man that loves his wife, and guesses he wants to see her happy.
"Guess she's a millionaire if that's her own money she's been figgering," said Stevens. "Notice that figger there!" He pointed with a stubby forefinger. "Pretty near a billion, ain't it?" "Seven hundred and fifty thousand," said Aldous. He was thinking of the "pound" sign. She had not looked like the Englishwomen he had met. He folded the slip of paper and put it in his pocket.
Old Dillaway Peter's father-in-law had decoyed the pair on from Montana because him and some Wall Street sharks were figgering on buying some copper country out that way that Stumpton owned.
'Specially such a mother. She's too big to ask you herself. That's her way. It makes me feel bad when I get back to find her doing and figgering at this desk when she ought to be sitting around at her ease after all she's done in the past. It's that, or get white help in from down south. And it don't seem good getting white help in, not while we can keep this outfit going ourselves.
'He's figgering on something hard, said Dave Terril. 'Might be about Jim Courtot. 'Or them tracks, suggested Sandy Weaver. 'The barefoot's and the gigantic wolf. 'Or, put in a chuckling voice from the shadows, 'a girl, huh? Having took a good look at old man Longstreet's girl, I wouldn't blame Al overmuch.
"Just as I was figgering that I was growing fast to the limb, I heard somebody calling my name. I unglued my eyes from the dog and looked up, and there, looking over the fence that I'd tried so hard to reach, was Barbara Saunders, Cap'n Eben Saunders' girl, who lived in the house next door to mine.
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