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I'd be expecting every minute to have the ghosts of dead and gone Indians rise up and scalp me." "Thought you didn't believe in ghosts," gibed Chet. "I don't," flared Billie, adding rather weakly: "But I'm not going to take any chances, anyway."
How wilt thou warm the little baby when thou art like the bear after a famished winter, thou maid of skin and bones!" "Long-nose! Long-nose! may thy nose freeze!" she called. The other maidens laughed and gibed at her. In anger she fled into her tupik, or tent. Being very thin she, too, like Papik, suffered from the bar sinister of nature.
Give us a nickel all round, you nabob, you. Rides in a sleigh every day, he does, and never thinks no more of Newspaper Square and nights on the old steam holes, he don't!" gibed Battles fiercely. But Lionel scarcely heard this taunt.
The artist's exclamation drew a sarcastic chuckle from the other. "I am prepared, now, to testify to your unworldly innocence of heart and mind," he gibed. "And, pray, why not his wife? You see, she was the ward of old Rutlidge a niece, it is said. Mrs. Rutlidge as you have no doubt heard killed herself. It was shortly after her death that Jim took this little one into his home.
"Then every merry knight, That was in Arthur's court, Gibed and laughed and flouted, To see that pleasant sport. "Down she threw the mantle, No longer bold or gay, But, with a face all pale and wan To her chamber slunk away.
They're working in ahead of us. Here, I'll have a shot at 'em, for luck!" A howl followed the second spurt of flame in the dusk. One of the gray, gaunt portents of death licked, yapping, at his flank. "Got you, all right!" gibed Stern. "The kind o' game you're after isn't as easy as you think, you devils!" But now from the other side, and from behind them, the slinking creatures gathered.
Tessa removed the cigarette to poke her tongue out at him, and continued her war-dance just out of reach. It was Netta to the life. Monck glanced at the watch on his wrist. "I give you one minute," he said, and returned to his work." "Why don't you chase me?" gibed Tessa. He said nothing further, but to Stella his silence was ominous. She watched him with anxious eyes.
"There's a cure for most things," he observed. "Can the Ethiopian change his skin?" gibed Saltash. Larpent was silent for a space. Then: "A painful process no doubt!" he said. "But more wonderful things have happened." "Pshaw!" said Saltash. Nevertheless when Larpent rose a little later and bade him good-night, he reached up a couple of fingers in careless comradeship. "Good-night, old fellow!
"Come on, Shorty; we'll be getting along," Smoke said, mushing the dogs. The crowd formed in behind and followed. "Say, ain't you-all made a mistake?" Shorty gibed. "When we met you you was goin', an' now you're comin' without bein' anywheres. Have you lost your tag?" "You go to the devil," was Saltman's courtesy. "We go and come just as we danged feel like. We don't travel with tags."
"Don't try to gloze it over," cut in Blake. "Let's have it straight. You're a thoroughbred. I'm a broncho." "Mistaken metaphor," rejoined his friend. "I'm a well-bred nonentity. You're a diamond in the rough. When once you've been cut and polished " "Then the flaws will show up in great shape," gibed Blake. "Never think it, old man!
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