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Guess I was the first man he sent for last spring. He knows I go through all them river towns. He says, 'Bije, you get 'em. I understood." William Wetherell began to realize the futility of trying to convince Mr. Bixby of his innocence in political matters, and glanced at Jethro. "You wouldn't think he was listenin', would you, Will?" Mr. Bixby remarked. "Listening?" "Ears are sharp as a dog's.
Marks, decisively, as his wife re-entered the chamber "I don't want you; you've no call to hear what I've got to say I only want Mr. Audley, and I wants to speak to him all alone, with none o' your sneakin' listenin' at doors, d'ye hear? so you may go down-stairs and keep there till you're wanted; and you may take mother no, mother may stay, I shall want her presently."
As sune as he was oot o' the hoose crying their names I sat up in my bed listenin'. Sune I heard speakin', an' in a minute Leeby comes runnin' in to me, roarin' an' greetin'. She was barefeeted, and had juist her nichtgown on, an' her teeth was chatterin'. I took her into the bed, but it was an hour afore she could tell me onything, she was in sic a state.
I will say this for her, she supported me better than the other two did, a lot better. And it's her own fault her nose is flat. If she'd stood still that time But I'm not goin' to discuss family affairs with you, Mr. Yol " "Sh! Easy!" "It's all right. He ain't listenin'." "What is your brother-in-law's name?" in a whisper.
And out of this swift estimate grew a new pity for poor Moll Hawk, the pity one feels for the vanquished. "You will be surprised to find how many friends you have, Moll," he said gently. There was no indication that she was impressed one way or the other by this remark. She drew back from the window and faced him, her eyes keen and searching. "Do you reckon anybody is listenin'?" she asked.
I sits quiet, listenin' an' this guy drops into the garden an' wuz crawlin' past me bench an' I pinches 'im. He wuz fer havin' a fight, an' we knocks over one of the big urns an' lit in the tank. He says it's a thousand bones an' ye turn me loose, he says, an' I soused 'im ag'in fer that."
De missus had been wakin' an' fearful-like mos' ob de night, but at las' we was all a-dozin'. I was in a char by her side, an' Missy S'wanee laid on a lounge. She hadn't undress, an' fer a long time seemed as if listenin'. At las' dere come a low knock, an' we all started up. I goes to de doah an' say, 'Who's dar? 'A message from Cap'n Lane, says a low voice outside.
Bunker quickly, but emphatically, "the fishing interest ought to be American and protected by the State, with regular charters and treaties." "I say, Mollie," said her astonished but admiring husband, "you've been readin' the papers or listenin' to stump speakin' sure." "Go on," returned Mrs. Bunker impatiently, "and say what happened next."
Hannah didn't have to say, 'If you are a spirit, rap so many times. No: she knew the voice. God prepares the listenin' soul His own self. 'They know my voice, so the Lord said. "Daniel and the lions didn't have to 'form a circle' for him to see the one in shinin' raiment.
I've set great store by that family from the outset, and I'm turrible glad they're goin' to fix up the house some more when it comes spring. I'm willin' to work cheap for such folks as them." "You owe 'em somethin' for listenin' to you, Osh! Seems if they moved here jest in time to hear your stories when you'd 'bout tuckered out the rest o' the village!"
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