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"Not in the stables, nor up or down the road. And the DOG'S missin', madam," added Jarvis. Ethel sprang up. "No, miss. SHE'S gnawin' a bone on the lawn. The OTHER." "That will do," and Mrs. Chichester dismissed them. As they disappeared through the door, the old lady said appealingly to her children: "Where IS she?" "Heaven knows," said Alaric. "Oh, if I could only throw the whole business up."
But, moind ye, phwin th' bird's-eye shtar-rts movin' ye don't notice nothin, or some foine avenin' ye'll turn up missin'." "What is this bird's-eye thing?" asked Bill. "What has it got to do with Moncrossen and me?" The Irishman considered the question and, without answering, walked to the corner of the bunk-house near which they were standing and peered into the black shadow of the wall.
Well, dey fine de white man was done missin, an it bin dat I was strikin' fish in de mill pon' de same nite, dey 'gin to look for me, an my daddy tole me dat I had better go into the desart, which was de Dismal Swamp. I took his 'vice and lef. De runaway ketchers cum in dar to look for me, but didn't get me. I staid dar 'til de war was ober.
Hit was August but O-o-h, hot enough to fry eggs on a shingle, the day I tramped down to Cottonville with them specimens; and here it is" he threw up his head and took a comprehensive survey of the grove about him "airly spring March, I should say ain't it, Johnnie? Yes," as she nodded. "And who is this here young man that you name that's missin', honey?" The girl glanced at him apprehensively.
Yis, the boy knows his danger and he took the vantage of the rift to signal me with his piece, for oars couldn't help him in the rift and the missin' of a single stroke wouldn't count. I trust the boy got the pups, arter all," added the old trapper, his mind instantly reverting to his loved companions the moment it was relieved from anxiety touching his comrade.
Be th' same token, there's goin' t' be no ind iv sin an' throuble down there, an' I'd be sorry to be missin' it. 'He's no true digger who'll stand out when the time comes, Ryan. 'Thrue fer you, man. Och! it's a lovely land fer a gravyince, an' I'll niver lave it. He looked Jim up and down again. 'It's put th' good heart in you, Done. Jim nodded smilingly.
Why, the earth looked as if the devil had gone over it with a brush of brown paint, missin' a spot here an' there that come up green after the critters had got away. There was only one thing they didn't eat, an' that was themselves more's the pity! He tended to my interests before his own, because, as he said, I was a widow an' must not suffer.
There's a waiter here with long hair and two teeth missin' that I'm goin' to bust in the nose if he doesn't stop." "Stop what, Charlie? "Oh, lookin' at me...." The luncheon progressed. Olives, watery soup, delicate sandwiches.... An air of breathlessness about Rachel seemed to discommode her friends. Charlie, piqued at her inattentiveness, essayed a volubility foreign to his words.
It niver happened i' Fosters' days, that's a' I know. 'He'll maybe come back yet, said Hester. 'It's not so very late. 'It were market day, and a', continued Phoebe, 'just as if iverything mun go wrong together; an' a' t' country customers'll go back wi' fine tale i' their mouths, as Measter Hepburn was strayed an' missin' just like a beast o' some kind.
"If Weeks is a friend o' yours I should get used to missin' 'im, as I tell his wife." There was at that time an ingenious system by which the skipper might buy his smack from the owner on the instalment plan as people buy their furniture only with a difference: for people sometimes get their furniture. The instalments had to be completed within a certain period.
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