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She believed that Margarita's jealousy had imagined all. "And the Senora; she'd send you packing off this place in an hour, and me too, long's I've lived here, if ever she was to know of you blackening the Senorita. An Indian, too! You must be mad, Margarita!"
And she must have believed him, for she brought his cheek down to hers with such a sigh of content, though she said, "But are we at all suited to each other?" "Probably not," Heyl answered, briskly. "That's why we're going to be so terrifically happy. Some day I'll be passing the Singer building, and I'll glance up at it and think how pitiful it would look next to Long's Peak.
She could not be kinder now than she was then, but she looked so poor and old! He saw her taste her cup of tea and set it down again with a trembling hand and a look at him. "No, I wanted to come myself," he blustered, wiping his eyes and trying to laugh. "And you 're going to have everything you need to make you comfortable long's you live, Mother Robb!"
Peg seemed to guess something of her thoughts, for she caught her by the arm, twisting her round so that they were face to face. "Look here," she said. "How long's it going on like this?" The bright colour rushed to Faith's cheeks. "What do you mean?" "You know quite well what I mean," Peg said bluntly.
"Yes?" The trainer raised his thick eyebrows and lowered his thin voice. "Kind of tony, ain't yeh? Beggars can't be choosers." "They needn't be crooks, Dan. I know you meant it all right enough," said Garrison bitterly. "You think I'm crooked, and that I'd take anything anything; dirt of any kind, so long's there's money under it." "Aw, sneeze!" said Crimmins savagely. Then he checked himself.
And that's just what she says she's goin' to do with you and Jim, she broke right out crying, out loud, just like a little baby, and says she, "'If the Lord don't bless Hetty Gunn for bein' so good to us! she sha'n't ever be sorry for it's long's she lives." "Of course I sha'n't," said Hetty, bluntly.
Long's you want to see where Joanna lived No, 'tain't breakin' over the ledges; we'll manage to fetch across the shoals somehow, 'tis such a distance to go 'way round, and tide's a-risin'," he ended hopefully, and we sailed steadily on, the captain speechless with intent watching of a difficult course, until the small island with its low whitish promontory lay in full view before us under the bright afternoon sun.
By this time, however, an important dispatch was flying east, bearing four different addresses: To the Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Washington; To Colonel Joseph Wilcox, Vice-President pro tem., Baltimore Gun Club, Md; To J.T. Marston, Esq. Long's Peak, Grand County, Colorado; and To Professor Wenlock, Sub-Director of the Cambridge Observatory, Mass.
Do you mean that here, with this expanse of level prairie before us, we are up among the clouds, so to speak, far up on the very backbone of the continent, and that is why, instead of towering thousands of feet aloft in air, the great peaks Long's and Hahn's and Pike's seem so near us to the south'ard and no higher at all?
"I know what I mean," said Mrs. Starling, "and I commonly say it. That is, when I say anything. I don't wish anything about Josiah. I've given up wishin'. He's an unaccountable boy. There's no dependin' on him. And the thing is, he don't care. All he thinks on is his own victuals; and so long's he has 'em, he don't care whether the rest of the world turns round or no."
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