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"'Cause I'd go get drunk if there wasn't . Wonder if a feller could get any boot-leg liquor?" "Better leave it alone," Old Heck warned, "that kind's worse than none. It don't make you drunk just gives you the hysterical hydrophobia! "Well, I'd drink anything in an emergency like this if I had it," Skinny declared doggedly.
The others whom I knew were somewhat dry. A faint flavour of the gardener hung about them, but sophisticated and dis-bloomed. They had engagements to keep, not alone with the deliberate series of the seasons, but with man- kind's clocks and hour-long measurement of time. And thus there was no leisure for the relishing pinch, or the hour-long gossip, foot on spade.
I was in there the other night she wanted to see me about some work and 't was neat as wax, and an awful good scent o' somethin' they'd had for supper." "That kind's always smart enough," granted the widow Topliff. "I want to know if she cooks him a hot supper every night? Well, she'll catch him if anybody can. Why don't you get a look into some o' the clusets, if you go there to work?
He ain't goin' to be any more trouble than a wax doll! I guess he ain't been used to much attention, and that kind's always the easiest to take care of."
And scour the pot with a double-handful of clean sand; it will be for your health as well as the kind's. Come here, jongen give me a look at the little tongue." The boy went to him confidently, and stuck it out, looking up with innocent wide eyes in the square, powerful face, as Saxham swung round his wallet, continuing, "Here, mevrouw, is a packet of Epsom salts.
Ashburn was not without hopes that her brother might be brought to understand in time that the family did not end with Mark, but she might have spared her pains just then. 'Oh, he said, with a rather contemptuous toss of the head, 'I wasn't hinting. I've nothing partickler against him he's steady enough, I dessay. One of the other kind's enough in a small family, in all conscience!
Why, he never spoke a word of love to me in his life!" "Humph! that silent kind's the worst; you don't give him a chance." "And I don't mean to does that satisfy you?" she demanded. "If it doesn't, I'll tell you something but it's a secret; you won't tell?" "Not if you don't want me to; I ain't that kind." "I know you're not, Tave; that's why I'm going to tell you.
They don't want to start anything with the Lorrigans!" "Well, I left the oven door open. She ain't burning to hurt. Yuh see, Scotty Douglas, he's religious and he don't never pack a gun. Them kind's bad to tangle up with; awful bad. There ain't nothing much a man can do with them religious birds. Them not being armed, you can't shoot it's murder.
She'll try to go the men one better in everything, and wind up by making a darn fool of herself. Either kind's bad enough." "I'll bet she don't run in either bunch," began Weary.
"You knaw best, Will, dearie; you nearly allus knaw best; but your heart's bigger 'n your pocket an' a li'l child do call so loud for the spendin' o' money." "Aye, I knaw, I knaw; 'tis a parent's plaace to stand up for his offspring through fire an' water; an' I reckon I won't be the worst faither as ever was, either. I can mind the time when I was young myself. Stern but kind's the right rule.
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