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"She said I must n't mind a hotel much 'cause her husband minded company more, an' I did n't see any sort of meanin' to her remark, but David in the lions' den was a roarin' lion himself compared to me that minute, so I just walked behind her an' she took me in an' up in a elevator an' into a room with a bathroom an' a bouquet an' there she told me to give her the key of the valise an' she'd unpack while I was in the bath tub.
"Meanin'?" said the fair young man in the white tie. "That I'm going to wipe my boots on 'im straight away," said Mr. Hoopdriver, reverting to anger, if with a slight catch in his throat than which threat of personal violence nothing had been further from his thoughts on entering the room.
The expression of the girl's face changed in a flash and she sprang out and caught one of his hands in both of hers. "Kill him? Ye bain't meanin' to kill him, Denny Nolan?" she whispered. "Aye, but I bes, curse or no curse," he said, dully. "To-morrow mornin' I bes a-goin' to kill him man to man, in fair fight." "But for why, Denny?" "For the girl." "Bes ye lovin' her so desperate, Denny?"
The boyish face of the young countryman had paled under his sunburn and he spoke with the suppressed passion of a man who is not easily angered and who responds to the pressure of some absorbing emotion. "Lord, Lord, Abel, Mr. Jonathan warn't meanin' no particular disrespect, not mo' was I," quavered old Adam. "You're too pipin' hot, miller," interposed Solomon.
Is it an American sport? "'Yes, sais I, 'it is; and the most excitin' thing, too, you ever see. "'You are a very droll man. Mr Slick, said he, 'a very droll man indeed. In all your books there is a great deal of fun; but in all your fun, there is a meanin'. Your jokes hit, and hit pretty hard, too, sometimes. They make a man think as well as laugh. But, describe this Gander Pulling.
"I was meanin' to pay you a visit straight away; indeed I was," said Captain Cai contritely. "Troy streets be narrow and full o' friends; and when a man's accustomed to sea-room " He broke off and drew a long breath. "But O, friends, if you knew the good it is!" "Ay, Cap'n: East or West, home is best."
It's the normal, and bein' put out of office he and Ruby Ann. They've run things long enough. They say he did swear offel at the last school meetin' about normals and ingrates and all that, meanin' they'd forgot all he'd done for 'em; but, my land, you can't b'lieve half you hear. I don't b'lieve nothin', and try to keep a close mouth 'bout what I do b'lieve.
We've both done ye ill, an' both meanin' the verra best. Juist what I'm always sayin' to Sarah." "I am mighty proud of what you have been telling me, Duncan," said Freckles. "I need the warning, sure. For with the books coming I might be timpted to neglect me work when double watching is needed. Thank you more than I can say for putting me on to it. What you've told me may be the saving of me.
Old Matt spoke so suddenly and in such a tone that the other jumped in alarm. "I ain't a meanin' no harm, Doc; but you oughtn't to tell his name, and anyway I don't want to know. Preacher or no preacher, he's a man, he is, and that's what counts in this here country. If Dad had wanted us to know about himself, I reckon he'd a told us, and I don't want to hear it until he's ready."
I was meanin' to pass him the word how she was waitin' to see him; but after he'd registered his big howl, and Old Hickory had first smeared him and then soothed him down, he left so sudden that I didn't have a chance. Besides, I was some rushed myself.
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