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Updated: June 11, 2025
"It isn't because you love me." "I don't know." "I know there's no mistakin' it when it's there. I've lain awake a lot o' nights wondering what you're after. You must have your reasons. You take a deal o' trouble." Then she put her hand on his. It was the first time that she had ever, of her own accord, touched him. "I'm gettin' to like you," she said. "Seein' so much of you, I suppose.
A'm a sairgeant, an' A' thocht a' the time ye were mistakin' me for an officer, an' A'd no' the heart to stop ye, for it's a verra lang time since A' spoke wi' a lady, an' it was verra, verra fine." He rose slowly and walked to his cycle she ran after him and laid her hand on his arm. "I've been a low snob," she said frankly.
"Sure thing he is, I'd bet my life on it," she insisted, as we, too, hurried back to the table and took up our towels and napkins once more. "There's no mistakin' them signs, and you'd be a little fool if you wasn't to help him along. Men's all sort of bashful, some more 'n others, and it's a good thing to help along. I like the looks of that fellow he'd be awful silly and soft with his wife."
Wan av us will loose off, an' a close shot ut will be, an' shame to the man that misses. 'Twill be Mulvaney's rifle, she that that is at the head av the rack there's no mistakin' long-shtocked, cross-eyed bitch even in the dhark. "The thief misnamed my ould firin'-piece out av jealousy I was pershuaded av that an' ut made me more angry than all.
"Look here," he said, tapping his stick sharply on the floor; "as it happens, I didn' come here to lose my temper nor to talk about your conduct leastways, not that part of it. 'Tis about your granddaughter. She've been stealin' my wood." "Liz?" "Yes; I caught her in my yard at nine o'clock last night. No mistakin' what she was after. There, in the dark she was stealin' my wood."
There was no mistakin' them big letters. They was on soft paper, and lots o' stamps, as I said." "You gave them out? Who to?" "To Mis' Starlin' herself. I mind partic'lerly. She come for 'em herself, and she got 'em. You don't mean she lost 'em on her way hum? They was postmarked some queer name, but they come from Californy; I know that. You hain't never forgotten 'em?
Others are cooking, others are cleaning their rifles. The proceedings are superintended by a contemplative tabby cat, coiled up in a niche, like a feline flower in a crannied wall. "She used ter sit on top of the parapet," explains a friendly lance-corporal; "but became a casualty, owin' to a sniper mistakin' 'er for a Guardsman's bearskin. Show the officer your back, Christabel!"
Henry thought long over it before he went to sleep, and as his eyelids fluttered down and he dozed off, the thought in his mind was: "There's no mistakin' it, Bill's almighty blue. I'll have to cheer him up to-morrow." The day began auspiciously.
Thure, stepping a little behind Bud and holding the paper so that no eyes but his own could see it, cautiously opened the note and slowly read these words: If you wil give us the miners map and promice tu say nuthin bout the gold kave Bill and me wil sudenly diskuver that we is mistakin in thinkin that you was the ones tu kil old Stakpole and you wil go free.
"'Shore y'u wasn't smart if y'u was aimin' to be one of Ellen Jorth's lovers, said Bruce, with a leer. 'Fer if y'u hedn't give y'urself away y'u could hev been easy enough. "Thar was no mistakin' Bruce's meanin' an' when he got it out some of the men thar laughed. Isbel kept lookin' from one to another of them.
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