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If any of the rail birds is lookin' they'll think we're goin' under a strong wrap, even when we're all out." Lang don nodded his head. He was a man not given to exuberant appreciation. The boys averred that when Dick Langdon didn't curse at them they had done pretty well, indeed. "What's your weight?" he asked of Westley, abruptly.
He came in kinder quiet, like he always does, an' he stood in the door, an' Mr. What's-his-name was talkin' to Miss Lang so fast, an' lookin' at her so hard, they didn't neither of 'em notice.
"If it was here where all the neighbours 'ud be lookin' at it, it 'ud be somethin'-like. But what signifies what kind of an ould gully-hole they throw us into over beyant there'll be nobody to pass a remark about us, or to put up a prayer for us afther we're gone, only Larry and his wife; an' I question if she's the lady to be throublin' her head over the like of us." Mrs.
I just stared at her till Struthers looked over my shoulder, and says, excited: "'Why, it's Olive Troop, the singer! "'Not any more, says Morrow, smiling. "'Oh! So you're the fellow she gave up her art for? I knew her on the stage. "Something way deep down in the man grated on me, but the kid was lookin' at the picture and never noticed, while hunger peered from his face.
Maggard shook himself like a dog roused from contented sleep and sat up straight. "I hain't nuver seed her but jest one time, an' I hain't nuver passed no word of speech with her," he replied. "When I come by ther house an' tarried ter make my manners with ther old man, she was a-standin' in an upstairs winder lookin' out an' I seed her thar through ther branches of that big old walnuck tree.
Lookin' back'ards now, it seems to me we couldn't'a' had nothin' to do, day or night, 'fo' he come.
They do not fly back towards me!" sez I, lookin' him betune the eyes. "You're a good man," sez he, lookin' me betune the eyes an' oh he was a gran'-built man to see! "you're a good man," he sez, "an' I cud wish, for the pure frolic av ut, that I was not a Sargint, or that you were not a Privit; an' you will think me no coward whin I say this thing."
It got deeper and deeper towards the middle, and lookin' at one of them roses half-opened was like lookin' down into a gold mine.
I knew he was doin' it for Miss Jane. I reckon I was so blame thankful I didn't think of it then not till I went to his room later. But he was sittin' in the dark, lookin' out the window, an', as he didn't hear me, I slipped back." The sheriff's face was a study, but no one could have described the look on another face pressed close to the folds of the library window curtains.
I'll go up village for the news in a minute. I lay 'tis knawn theer." "Ban't I tellin' of 'e? 'Tis like this. Will Blanchard's been mixin' a bit of chopped fuzz with the sheep's meal these hard times, like his betters. But now I've seed hisself today, lookin' so auld as Cosdon 'bout it. He was gwaine to the horse doctor to Moreton.
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