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That wasn't much to care about. If you hadn't taken it so hard they'd have let up on you." "Mebbe I might have stood that. But they taunted me with bein' loony about you." Joel spoke huskily. There was no doubt that he had been deeply hurt. Lucy saw tears in his eyes, and her first impulse was to put a hand on his and tell him how sorry she was. But she desisted.
"He's loony on the subject of weapons," grunted Roy. Allen led the way down cellar, the girls and the servants not venturing, though Betty did want to go. But her mother kept her back. A glance served to show that the diamonds were in the box, safe. As far as could be learned the intruders had not been near them.
"Hush! be still! Don't get her in here. Keziah, you're single and so am I. You ain't got nobody to take care of you and I ain't, neither that is, I don't want to be took care of I mean, I've been took care of too much." Mrs. Coffin took another step in the direction of the kitchen. "He IS loony!" she exclaimed under her breath. "No, no! I ain't loony. I want to make a proposal to you.
"Who's runnin' this boat, you or me?" The astounded passenger stared at his companion. "Why, you are," he replied. "But that's no reason What's the matter with you, anyway? Have your dime novels driven you loony?" Issy hesitated. For a moment chagrin and rage at this sudden upset of his schemes had gotten the better of his prudence. But Bartlett was taller than he and broad in proportion.
I was near a gambling house, but I was too tired to care, nature asserted herself, and I gently crossed the river into the land of Nod. The next morning I was really sick with a high fever, and when Bill came in I was well nigh loony. "Hello," he said, "this won't do. Tom, I say, you Tom, go and tell Doctor Bailey I want him here quick. D n quick. Do you hear?" and black Tom answered, "Yas, suh."
He spoke of Swen Brodie and old Loony Honeycutt and Gus Ingle all in one breath, and King knew that Gus Ingle was sixty years dead; he dwelt hectically on the "luck of the unlucky Seven." And when, far on in the night, he at length grew silent and King went to peer into his face by the light of his camp-fire, Andy Parker was dead. Mark King made the grave in the dawn.
"Oh, M. Dagobert! my legs tremble under me. How you did scare me, to be sure!" "Will you begone, brute?" resumed the veteran; and seizing Loony by the arm, he pushed him towards the door, while Spoil-sport, with recumbent ears, and hair standing up like the quills of a porcupine, seemed inclined to accelerate his retreat.
"I wonder who's loony now?" hummed Dave to himself, as he marched briskly along on his way to the office of the officer in charge. There be picked up two of the report slips, dipping a pen in ink. First, in writing, he reported himself on the charge of having his shoes unlaced. In the space for remarks Darrin wrote tersely: "Untrue."
Inspired by a common instinct, they began at once to bait one of their number, a slight youngster of twelve years, much better clothed than the rest, who had adventurously strolled in from a neighbouring manufactory. This child answered their jibes in an amiable, silly, drawling tone which seemed to justify the epithet 'Loony, frequently applied to him.
Blenkiron was settled in his chair again, with one leg hoisted over the side. 'We've closed a fair number of his channels in the last few months. No, he don't suspect me. The world knows nothing of its greatest men, and to him I'm only a Yankee peace-crank, who gives big subscriptions to loony societies and will travel a hundred miles to let off steam before any kind of audience.
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