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In course she goes wild directly. Blood!" Bill raised his glass, softly swirled its contents round and round, tasted it, and set it down. "The kepple o' words I had to say to ye was this: Git up and git!" Something like this had passed through Jeff's mind the day before the Mayfields came. Something like it had haunted him once or twice since. He turned quickly upon the speaker.
He paused to search his mind for something suitable to suggest to her; at length he questioned: "Now, what have you been reading lately?" The Girl's face broke into smiles as she answered: "Oh, it's an awful funny book about a kepple. He was a classic an' his name was Dent." Johnson knitted his brows and thought a moment.
He felt full of life and anxious for happenings. He went back and sat down upon the iron bedstead beneath the banyan, that Kepple had lain upon through the day, and he watched the soft immensity of the Indian night swallow up the last lingering colours of the world. It left the outlines, it obliterated nothing, but it stripped off the superficial reality of things.
He looked over his shoulder, and there were the two little tents, one that sheltered Kepple and one that awaited him, and beyond, in an irregular line, glowed the ruddy smoky fires of the men. One or two turbaned figures still flitted about, and there was a voice low, monotonous it must have been telling a tale.
And you sez to me, ez man to man, 'Bill, sez you, 'might you hev a kepple o' hundred dollars about ye that ye could lend a man ez was leaving the county, dead broke? and I sez, 'I've got it, and I know of an op'nin' for such a man in the next county. And you steps into THAT op'nin', and your creditors 'spesh'ly Parker slips into THIS, and in a week they offers to settle with ye ten cents on the dollar."
And Kepple, refreshed by a night's rest and coffee, was wondering loudly where the devil he had gone. Benham was the son of a schoolmaster. His father was assistant first at Cheltenham, and subsequently at Minchinghampton, and then he became head and later on sole proprietor of Martindale House, a high-class preparatory school at Seagate.
Her mind was not the abode of hardened convictions, but was tender to sentiment, and something in his manner at once softening her, she said: "Nonsense? I dunno 'bout that. You see " and her eyes took on a far away look "I had a home once an' I ain't forgot it a home up over our little saloon down in Soledad. I ain't forgot my father an' my mother an' what a happy kepple they were.
He spoke to none but one word, and it was inevitable, to Admiral Kepple, who had bouche son passage. When he was upon the throne the Chancellor was at his right hand, and looking with such a countenance as affords to the people of Brooks's much occasion of abuse. Arnold was behind the throne. The King looked much displeased with Mr. Conway, the mover, at the right hand of the Speaker.
"Steady, Banana," remonstrated Stanley, "don't tease the kid." "They're not teasing me. I don't care what they say or what any of you do." "What a little liar it is!" taunted Banana-Skin, "when he's fairly blubbing there." "I'm not!" "Fetch the cane out," pursued Banana-Skin, unheeding. "It's no good talking. Get him over that chair, Kepple." "You shan't!" said Doe, trembling terribly.
Bill, taking in the voice of the speaker more than his words, dropped his own. "I said I had a kepple of words to say to ye. Thar isn't any time in the last fower months ever since ye took stock in this old shanty, for the matter o' that that I couldn't hev said them to ye. I've knowed all your doin's.
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