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"Come down inter the cabin," he said. "We'll need all our wits." "That's a gunboat patrol," he said. "Japanese, for a million! None other this far west. An' it's damned funny it should come up right at this minnit. We've made the trip on schedule time, an' here they show. But we'll let that slide. We've got to think fast. They'll board us. They'll overhaul us lookin' for seal pelts.
"I don't mean ter ax ef yer's jes got nothin' agin' him, but is yer that kind ob a friend ez 'll stan' by him in trouble?" "What do you mean, Nimbus?" asked Hesden in surprise. "Will yer come wid me, Marse Hesden slip on yer clo'es an' come wid me, jist a minnit?" Hesden did not think of denying this request. It was evident that something of grave importance had occurred.
An' she'd kill you in a minnit, Buck, if she ever got wise. You ain't mistaken her none, are you?" "Not me, Euchre. She's a woman. I'd fear her more than any man." "Wal, you'll have to kill Bland an' Chess Alloway an' Rugg, an' mebbe some others, before you can ride off into the hills with thet girl." "Why? Can't we plan to be nice to Mrs.
But, look here, I daren't stop another minnit. Tell his lordship tell Mr. Fitzroy that I'll dodge the Earl in some way an' remain here. He says he has been tricked, wot between me an' the Frenchman, but he means to go back to London to-morrow. Good-by, mam. You won't forget strickly private?" "Oh, no, I won't forget," said Mrs.
"I want to see you got to have a talk. Come right down here." "Jest been measurin'," said Scattergood, "and I figger it's a mite longer from here to there than it is from there to here. If you want to see me, here I be." "Where?" Scattergood gave an office address and hung up the receiver. "They'll be here in a minnit," he said to Mr.
But Miranda was not dashed. “Why, that’s all right. ’Course you ken go right up. Jest you set in the keepin’ room a minnit while I run up’n be sure the water pitcher’s filled. I ain’t quite sure ’bout it. I won’t be long.” Miranda seated them in the parlor with great gusto and hastened up the back stairs to investigate.
Once more a faint sense of revulsion fought with his natural inclination to aid the handicapped mariner, and he shook it off. "The Karluk sails to-morrow," he said. "Aye, so so they told me, matey. You've bin aboard?" "I had a short talk with Captain Simms when she docked. Not much of a yarn. She didn't have a good trip, you know." "Why, I didn't know. But hold hard a minnit, will ye?
And you drop in on the way at the Waterfield. dairy not Jenkins's: Jenkins's milk ain't good enough for them and tell 'em to send round two penn'orth of fresh this very minnit, do y'ear, John, this very minnit, as it's extremely pertickler.
Although jest one minnit afore, I wur putty nigh skeart out o' my seven senses, that sight made me larf till I wur like to bring on a colic. "Thur wur the bar wi' his head right a-through the blanket. One minnit, he 'ud rear up on his hind-feet, an' then the thing hung roun' him like a Mexikin greaser.
I've played in 'Amlet, yer honour, along with Octavius Bumpus's travellin' theatre, and I can nail a made-up livin' ghost in a minnit; but this ghost didn't look made up. There was no blood, yer honour; she looked as if she 'ad bin waccinated forty times." "And were the movements of her legs and arms natural?" "No j'ints, Master Blake. She looked like a wooden figger without proper j'ints!
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