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He deciphered the flourish, and read the following addition: "I know your feather does not like me; but never mind his not being agreuble. As shure as my name's Will, I'd carry you hoff, night or day; and Bob would fight your brothers along with me, if they said a word: for Bob loves fun. I will be at your windor this night, if you are agreuble, like a gurl of spirit."
"Wal, thet gurl would starve if it wasn't fer me," replied Wilson, genially, and he walked over toward her, beginning to address her, quite loudly, as he approached. "Wal, miss, I'm elected cook an' I'd shore like to heah what you fancy fer dinner." The outlaws heard, for they guffawed again. "Haw! Haw! if Jim ain't funny!" exclaimed Anson. The girl looked up amazed.
Collins had enjoyed the advantages accruing from even the rudiments of a liberal ed" "He's got summick to do with Gub'ment lately," said Price cunningly. "My 'pinion, he's shadderin' summedy." "He ain't a gurl o' that sort," interposed Bum hastily. "My 'pinion, he's a spieler. No more a detective nor I am." I returned to the group.
An' here's where I performed the greatest stunts of my life. I hed on my big spurs, an' I jest sit down an' rid an' spurred till thet pertickler buffalo I was on got near another, an' then I'd flop over. Thusly I got to the edge of the herd, tumbled off'n the last one, an' rescooed the gurl. "Well, as my memory takes me back, thet was a most affectin' walk home to the little town where she lived.
"He fired the boy, did the ould carmudgeon," said Madame Perrotte in one of her rages, "and druv him off from the town." "Nonsense, Mother," Annette had replied, "you know well enough Tony left of his own accord. Why should you shame him so? He went because he wanted to go." This was a new light upon the subject for her mother. "Thrue for you, Annette, gurl," she said, "an' ye said it that time.
THE VOICE: Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror. BEAUTY: What will I be? Tell me? THE VOICE: At first it was thought that you would go this time as an actress in the motion pictures but, after all, it's not advisable. You will be disguised during your fifteen years as what is called a "susciety gurl." BEAUTY: What's that?
"Yes, you had, child; and there's no use in your going for to deny it. You stole the notes and the gold, and the purty bit of a purse, and you put the blame on Will, 'cause you wanted to get scot-free yourself, and you wanted to take his gurl from him. You're a bad boy, Isaac Dent, and you desarves the least taste in life of the rod. Come along, neighbors, hould him, and do your dooty."
Light work ut was, wid lashins av beer and the gurl that dhressed the orf'cers' ladies but she died in Aggra twelve years gone, an' my tongue's gettin' the betther av me. They was actin' a play thing called Sweethearts, which you may ha' heard av, an' the Colonel's daughter she was a lady's maid. The Capt'n was a boy called Broom Spread Broom was his name in the play.
I did not even know where she was concealed, or how I could lay hands on Kirby. The genial Rale pushed out a black bottle and we drank together. "Wal'," he said, picking up the conversation where it had ended, quite satisfied with his diplomacy, and wiping his lips on his sleeve. "What ye say, Moffett? Thar's a hundred dollars in this job." "Whar is the gurl?"
Her baby! ... An' she's been my slave my dog to beat an' kick! She's been through Benton! A toy fer the riff-raff of the camps! ... She's as vile an' black an' lost as her treacherous mother! "Allison Lee shrunk under thot shame. But the gurl! Lord! she niver looked wot she was painted by thot devil. She stood white an' still, like an angel above judgment.
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