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He may be everything that's dear, and good, and kind" her voice broke "but it'd hit him dreadfully hard. A man like that can't forget such a thing. When I've once said it, I shall have changed everything between us.
"I should like to try to reveal the underneath fine instead of the underneath filth. It'd be a new experiment for me." He laughed. "Perhaps I should make a failure of it. But if you'd allow me I would try to make a start with you." "I can only say I shall be honoured," said Sir Seymour, with a touch of almost shamefaced modesty which he endeavoured to hide with a very grave courtliness.
It is just that you chaps seem so sympathetic makes me tell you all this; but you must swear never to breathe a word of it, for no one knows but you. My son and daughter-in-law think I'm an archæologist. It'd be an awful shock to them to find that I'm a pirate."
Five rifles they'll think the French is after them." "Well, but I want to get back," said Hugh. "We mustn't waste any time. What about the store-keeper's horses?" "Ho! it'd never do to take them straight back again," said Tommy. "Never do. They must have a spell. Besides, what's the hurry?"
"There's a steak coming a good-sized one, the waiter said it'd be." "Very well." Susan spoke indifferently. "Aren't you hungry?" "I don't know. I'll see." Susan was gazing straight ahead. Her eyes were distinctly gray gray and as hard as Susan Lenox's eyes could be. "What're you thinking about?" "I don't know," she laughed queerly. "Was it dreadful?"
"You know," he said huskily. "I've lost my head I'm in love I can't think of baseball I'm crazy about you." Miss Ellston's sweet face grew rosy, clear to the tips of her ears. "Billie Sheldon," she replied, spiritedly. "You're talking nonsense. Even if you were were that way, it'd be no reason to play poor ball. Don't throw the game, as Pat would say. Make a brace! Get up on your toes!
It'd be absurd for her to waste her time in this stuffy old place, when there are so many more attractive ones. It ought to be enough that those of us who have only a few remnants of beauty left, should devote them to this work." "Well," snapped Mrs. Grimes, "your donation of good looks to the cause even if you give all you got will be quite modest, something on the widow's mite order.
Cochrane said crisply: "Jones, what speed would that be?" "It'd take a slide-rule to figure it," said Jones' voice, very calmly, "but it's faster than anything ever went before." Cochrane waited for the next beep. It did not come in ten seconds. It was easily fifteen. Even he could figure out what that meant!
You count three, Max; and remember, Bandy-legs, don't you dare shoot till you hear him say 'three' plain as dirt." "But, Steve," said Max. "What d'ye want?" grumbled the other, trembling with eagerness to begin operations. "I hope you've only got one hammer raised," continued Max. "It'd be pretty tough if you fired both barrels again, and lamed your left shoulder, too." "Cracky!
In making its circle to come back, the cow lost her bearings sufficiently to miss the stern of the Mary Turner by twenty feet. Nevertheless, the bore of her displacement lifted the schooner's stern gently and made her dip her bow to the sea in a stately curtsey. "If she'd a-hit . . . " Captain Doane murmured and ceased. "It'd a-ben good night," Daughtry concluded for him.
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