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In fact, I didn't even know my own name or even recall you and Ma, or my old home back here. I say, it was all a plumb blank till till " "I know, till you heard about Hettie and and but go on. I'm a listenin'." "Well, there ain't much to tell." Dick Wrinkle was perspiring freely. He took off his hat and wiped his red neck and bald pate with an impatient hand.
"I've allus allowed that the story ye hev to tell yourself is a blamed sight funnier than the one ye're listenin' to," said Dan'l. "Put that down among my sayin's, will ye?" "But your story was never anythin' more than one o' them snippy things ye see in the papers, drored out to no end by you.
Captain Killam is demandin' of Meyers. "Wait," says the operator, fittin' on his tin ear. "He's just calling." Then, after listenin' a while, he announces: "He wants to know who we are." "Don't answer," orders Killam. "Oh, all right," says Meyers, and goes on listenin'. Pretty soon, though, he gives out another bulletin. "It's the United States gunboat Petrel, and he's demanding who and what.
He's been standin' there listenin'. He's got a chunk of ice stuck in his chest that you have to look at through smoked glasses. He's got another one just as big on his south hook. Take him all 'n' all he looks like the real persimmon. "'Do you own him? says the fat guy. "'You've had no call to insult a stranger, I says. 'But it's on me I owns him.
Wait on the table the best ye know how, and at the end of it, when I ring the bell three times, do ye go to the cellar and bring plenty of wine, and let's have no more nonsinse about it. "'Niver say it twice, says Jack; 'yer honor can depind on me. "Well, ye may belave I was listenin' to all this, for I wasn't in the cellar all the time.
Drew schooled himself into the old shell, the shell of trying not to let himself care. "General Buford said I was to ride in one of the headquarters wagons. He needs an extra driver. That's doin' something useful, not just sittin' around listenin' to a lot of bad news!" The boy's tone was almost raw in protest. And some of Boyd's argument made sense.
"I know there ain't no medals on Joe, Babe, but if you don't stop listenin' to town talk, you're going to get them pretty little ears of yours all sooty." "I know, Blutch; but I could tell you things about him back in the days when my mother " "Me and him are goin' over to Al's to-night and try to win my babe the first chicken for her farm. Whatta you bet?
"'Don't you touch that money! she screams. 'Don't you lay a finger on it! Ain't you got any self-respect at all, you miser'ble, low-lived and so forth and so on. All the way to the front gate I see Effie leanin' out, lookin' and listenin' and smilin'.
How he had arrived early, and found the church empty. How he had taken a seat near the door to be handy when the parson came. How he just felt "kinder kam and good," listenin' to the flies buzzing, and must have fallen asleep, only he pulled himself up every time, though, after all, it warn't no crime to fall asleep in an empty church!
"Well, here's Maurice Levy gone and seen part of the secrets," said Sam, in a voice of equal plaintiveness. "Yes; and I bet he was listenin' out here, too!" "Lemme up!" begged Maurice, half stifled. "I didn't do any harm to your old secrets, did I? Anyways, I just as soon be 'nishiated myself. I ain't afraid. So if you 'nishiate me, what difference will it make if I did hear a little?"
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