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It's enough to make a fellow desert. Here, I know; I'll do something. It's all the fault of that miserable renegade. I'll go in and half-kill him an insolent, insulting brute!"
He was about to half-kill himself with the labors of a long and arduous expedition, and at the end of it he foresaw himself returning home defeated, dejected, in the deepest throes of mortification and chagrin. And look what he was giving up.
"By the way," said Archie, "when you two have settled that knotty point, will you tell me who is to take the news of Dan's accident to Mrs Davidson? We'll have to carry him up to the house, you know, on a blanket 'tween two poles, an' she'll be sure to think that he's dead, or has been killed, an' that'll half-kill her, it'll give her such a fright. Somebody will have to go on ahead and tell her."
"If you could only do something daring," he murmured; "half-kill some-body, or save somebody's life, and let her see you do it. Couldn't you dive off the quay and save some-body's life from drowning?" "Yes, I could," said Blundell, "if somebody would only tumble in." "You might pretend that you thought you saw somebody drowning," suggested Mr. Turnbull. "And be laughed at," said Mr.
"I ain't," said Bob, with a malicious grin. "Why, if a fellow was to serve me such a trick as that I should half-kill him."
"Nay: Master Mark would hit me if I did, and Sir Edward'd half-kill me." "What nonsense, sir! Let go directly." Dummy shook his big head, and trudged on by the pony. "Oh!" cried the girl, with the tears of vexation rising in her eyes. "I will not be led, as if I were a little child. Go behind, sir, directly." "Nay," growled Dummy. "Let go, sir, or I'll beat you with the whip. Ah! where is it?"
"I'll half-kill you!" he snarled through his set teeth. "Then I'll sit here till you change your mind."
"No, no!" cried Dexter; "pull hard, and we shall get out into the river, and he can't follow us." "Yes, he can," cried Bob, blubbering now aloud. "He means it, and he'll half-kill us. Let's get out to this side and run." "Pull!
"If you could only do something daring," he murmured; "half-kill some-body, or save somebody's life, and let her see you do it. Couldn't you dive off the quay and save some-body's life from drowning?" "Yes, I could," said Blundell, "if somebody would only tumble in." "You might pretend that you thought you saw somebody drowning," suggested Mr. Turnbull. "And be laughed at," said Mr.
I could fight that Ralph Darley and half-kill him now. Here, let's go and see how miserable all the men are; it'll do me good."
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