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Hoffman, "and I know dey vill knit if you gif dem a chance. If all goes vell she vill valk again in t'ree months." "I'd like to see you do it," said Dr. Lord. "Patience, my friend," said Dr. Hoffman, "first ve make a little plaster cast." When Mrs. Brewster came in the afternoon she found a strange doctor in command and Dr. Lord and the nurses obeying his orders as if hypnotized.
He had lived with a "familiar spirit" so long, he feared the issue of this next excursion into the fens of crime. Dupont was on his feet now. "He will be here only three days more I haf find it so. To-night it mus' be done. As we go I will tell you what to say. I will wait at the Forks, an' we will come back togedder. His check will do. Eef he gif at all, the check is all right.
Philip's pace quickened with his heart-throb as he looked at her and thought of the little ghostly hands that had brought theirs together; and as he looked the smile that meant his welcome and his happiness broke over her face, and with the sound of her voice all the shades of this world and the next dissolved in light. "'Christmas gif', Marse Philip!" called Shelby.
She could give the name an' age of every cow an' calf on the farm, an' relate any circumstance thet has took place within her recollection or mine without the loss of a single date or any gain through imagination, either. I don't know but I think that's a greater gif' than the other, to be able to reproduce a event after a long time without sort o' thess techin' it up with a little exaggeration.
I tell God's truth, when I say he had then no thought of keeping this money. Deborah had hid it in his pocket. He found it there. She watched him eagerly, as he took it out. "I must gif it to him," he said, reading her face. "Hur knows," she said with a bitter sigh of disappointment. "But it is hur right to keep it." His right! The word struck him. Doctor May had used the same.
There was a fine scorn in the old man's tone. "Money! I hate the name of it. It turns the honour and cleanliness of men into trashy circles of metal. To business then. What chance has Barraclough of winning through?" "Very small." "Go on!" "If you want that thiss radium company shall be floated you would haf the better chance if " "Well?" "You gif to us one-third interest."
And then when the robbers have made a finish comes to the window of the coach a mascara and have say, 'Who is the Don Andreas Pico? And my father have say, 'It is I who am Don Andreas Pico. And the mask have say, 'Behold, your watch is restore! and he gif it to him. And my father say, 'To whom have I the distinguished honor to thank? And the mask say " "Johnson," interrupted Demorest.
'You gif me a yob, he kept saying, until I explained I wasn't in the business, had nothing to do with the Pullman works. Then he sat down and looked at the floor. 'I vas fooled. Well, it seems he did inlaying work, fine cabinet work, and got good pay. He built a house for himself out in some place, and he was fired among the first last winter, I guess because he didn't live in Pullman."
I'll tell you there ought to be luck in the day, for it was hidden on Christmas and it should be found on Christmas; so on Christmas morning we'll have another look, and if you find it I'll catch you 'Christmas gif'' as the darkies do, and you'll have to give it to me, and if I find it I'll give it to you; so that's fair, isn't it?
Ay, ye may look surprised, my friends, but I've got a way o' findin' out these things that is not known to every wan. Now, Tonal', gif them that as best ye can, and look sherp, for there iss more to come.
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