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He faced Ben without looking at the others. "The doctor wants both gem'man to come. I show the way. Quick." Phoebe sat up very straight and looked at the boy. "I don't know you," she said. "Who are you?" "I come from that away," answered the boy, pointing with his thumb toward Indian Head.
As they drifted in toward shore slowly, weaving their way among the moored craft, Whistler suddenly began to sniff the air and show excitement. "What's the matter?" demanded Torry, his closest chum. "You act like a hound dog on a hot scent." "Or a colored gem'man smelling po'k chops on the frypan," suggested Frenchy, chuckling.
At a time when the court was sitting in Buffalo, N. Y., and all the public houses were full, there came to the principal hotel a starched up little Frenchman, and called for lodgings. He was shown into a small, but well-furnished room, which was the only one in the house that was vacant. He thought himself insulted; and with much warmth said, "Me gem'man me no sleep here!"
The coachman threw his whip to the ostler, and the reins upon the horses' backs; he then dismounted, and calling to me, "Now, young gentleman, I'se a-waiting," he put a ladder up for me to get down by; then turning to a porter, he said to him, "Bill, you must take this here young gem'man and that ere parcel to this here direction. Please to remember the coachman, sir."
Her mincing politeness made him laugh, in spite of his irritation. "I think you'd like it in New York?" he urged. Lily's amber eyes were full of sympathy but she was firm: "I wouldn't live in New York for anything!" "Mr. Gem'man," said Jacky, sidling crabwise into the room to the shelter of his mother's skirt; "I " "Say, now, Sweety, be quiet! No, Mr.
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