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"Chickie, Chickie, Chickie," he said. "I can't till by your dress whether you are a hin or a rooster. But I can till by your employmint that you are working for grub. Have to hustle lively for every worm you find, don't you, Chickie? Now me, I'm hustlin' lively for a drink, and I be domn if it seems nicessary with a whole river of drinkin' stuff flowin' right under me feet.
And presently he made a wry mouth, as if he were taking something unpleasant; and he began to hustle Freddie and Euphemia so as to get away from that closed door as quickly as possible. The girl who had run away was talking with Mr. Holiday when suddenly she began to grow conscious and uncomfortable.
Why had he pursued the mail until his dogs were nearly dead, and he himself had fallen unconscious in his tracks? Was Minnetaki dead? Had the Woongas killed Wabi's beautiful little sister? Again and again he implored his friend to speak to him, until the courier pushed him back and carried Wabi to the mail sled. "Hustle up there to that bunch of spruce and build a fire," he commanded.
Around me was a family of migrant workers who spoke neither Hindi nor English and who were quite busy doing their own things. I did not speak with them nor with anyone else on the journey but contented myself with watching the countryside we passed through and the hustle and bustle at each station, and when I was bored I just went to sleep.
Tooting opened the study door and glanced over the public-spirited citizens awaiting, on the porch, the pleasure of their leader. "Come along, Caldwell," said Mr. Tooting. "He wants your report from Kingston. Get a hustle on!" Mr. Caldwell made his report, received many brief and business-like suggestions, and retired, impressed. Whereupon Mr. Crewe commanded Mr.
Miss Recompense came in and lighted the candles. They were going to have supper in five minutes and he must take off his coat and stay. "I've sort of run away, and no one would know where I am. Wife would keep supper waiting. No, I must hustle back, thanking you for the asking. I wanted to see Doris.
I believe I could learn." "You wouldn't have time to bother," objected Linda. "You're a man, with a man's business to transact in the world. You have to hustle and earn money to pay for the bridge and changing the brook." "But I had money to pay for the brook and the bridge before I agreed to them," said Peter. "Well, then," said Linda, "you should begin to hunt old mahogany and rugs."
Or, suppose a gang of pickpockets hustle a passenger in the street, and the mob set upon them, and proceed to execute summary justice upon such as they can lay hands on, am I to conclude that the rogues are in the right, because theirs is a system of well-organised knavery, which they settled in the morning, with their eyes one upon the other, and which they regularly review at night, with a due estimate of each other's motives, character, and conduct in the business; and that the honest men are in the wrong, because they are a casual collection of unprejudiced, disinterested individuals, taken at a venture from the mass of the people, acting without concert or responsibility, on the spur of the occasion, and giving way to their instantaneous impulses and honest anger?
Some people revel in surroundings of hustle and bustle, and find therein no hindrance to great accomplishment.
"He's all hustle, and smarter than a steel trap that's why I put him in charge of the gang in the lower shanty besides, I saw the boys wanted him." "I must see Mr. Bergstein in the morning," was Thayor's reply. "He left day before yesterday," said Holcomb. "He told me an uncle of his had died in Montreal; he'll be back, he said, in three or four days." "Ah, indeed," said Thayor with a nod.
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