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Updated: May 16, 2025
"I like fine nights, but I like to take care of my shins; and if I get star-gazing the lamp will be blown out, and we shall be going down one of those holes into the old gold-mine. There is one just in front isn't there?" "Two," I said; "but there are great stones laid across now." "Across the middle; but there's plenty of room to go down on one side. Look! Here we are."
He'll turn up all right, and come stalking in some day with a gold-mine in one pocket and a prairie in the other, as jolly as a grig, said Ted, who was in no haste to deliver Octoo to her rightful owner. 'Perhaps he has gone to Montana and given up the farm plan. He seemed to like Indians best, I thought'; and Rob went to help his mother with her pile of letters and his cheerful suggestions.
Here's the shell, plain enough; but the old Tyre and Sidems, as you call 'em, took away all the gold, sure enough. Trust 'em!" "What!" cried Denham, laughing. "Is it likely? Here's a gold-mine, sure enough; but if there's one here, don't you think there must be plenty more places in this country where people could dig down and get gold?" "May be, sir," said Briggs, scratching his ear.
"Oh, a little matter of six or seven hundred miles from here." "Glory to God!" "Might as well be six or seven thousand." "And very probably isn't a bona-fide strike at all," said the priest, "but just a stampede a very different matter." "Well, I tell you straight: I got no use for a gold-mine in Minook at this time o' year." "Nop! Venison steak's more in my line than grub-stake just about now."
You certainly don't want a sugar plantation which hasn't been paying its way since the Civil War. That just isn't reasonable. And you ought to know that we can't afford to buy you off. We must be living over a gold-mine that we haven't discovered. Come on, tell us where it is," Val prodded. "Cut the cackle," advised Red, "an' le's git down to it."
I was in hopes that we were going to make a dash through them and get out of this prison of a place." "What! and leave all that splendid beef, Briggs?" said Denham, who came up in time to hear the Sergeant's words. "Yes; and the gold-mine too, sir. We could come back and take possession of that." "But the bullocks?" "They'd find their way out and get their living on the veldt.
"You two lads have made a most curious discovery. It may be valuable or worthless; but here it is. I think that, besides being a splendidly strong place for a base, it is otherwise worth holding." "You feel sure it is an old gold-mine, then, sir?" "Undoubtedly, and it must have been of great value.
Jim laughed when he saw the girls' evident regret. "Any one would think you two girls were anxious to share your gold-mine with the heir of old Montresor. Now what is there to hinder me from claiming the old man as my uncle and telling you he is a twin-brother of my father's? That will make me the heir to that mine."
It was not until he found himself in a very lonely part of the park, where there were no other witnesses than the timid deer, lurking here and there under the poor shelter of a clump of leafless elms, it was not till Major Vernon felt himself quite alone, that he gave way to the full exuberance of his spirits. "It's a gold-mine!" he cried, rubbing his hands; "it's a regular California!"
The stranger, however, was rather insistent and asked if she would rent the cow, then, for fifty francs an hour? Was there ever a queerer offer? Of course fifty francs was a gold-mine to Mère Gavin, so she accepted, and was fairly overcome when the man laid down three hundred francs on the table and told her to keep them for him.
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