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I tell you Prescott's hooked." "I hope you're right" Mudge's tone was doubtful "but get it out of your head that he's an easy mark. I know that outfit; they're conservative as a country bank. Prescott didn't ask questions enough." "Didn't ask questions enough? Lord amighty, he was cocked and primed." Mudge smiled grimly. "Not for Prescott.
He understood that in Mudge's present condition one side of the flask was open to space and he could drink without removing the stopper. He could hardly have had a more interesting proof of what he had been hearing described at such length. But the next moment the very same moment it almost seemed the German band stopped midway in its tune and there was Mr.
"I am indeed most grateful to you for your offer," said my father; "but whom do you propose taking with you? I confess that, for the sake of my wife and daughter, I am unwilling to weaken our party, in case the natives should visit our camp, and, seeing only a few men, might be tempted to molest us." As soon as I had heard Mudge's proposal, I determined if I could to accompany him.
I observed a peculiar hollowness in Mudge's voice, too, and I was conscious that my own also sounded unusual. Still it would not do to give in, and we were not so far gone yet as to think of doing that. On, therefore, we went, though not without suffering. My knees felt weak, and I breathed with difficulty; but I would not tell Mudge this, lest it should discourage him.
The real cost he believed would frighten possible investors and with the peculiar sanguineness of the short-sighted, he thought that it would work out somehow. And all had gone well until Mudge's unheeded warning had come that some subtle but formidable influence was at work to their undoing.
"I thought it might be so from his manner," said Ben, enjoying Mrs. Mudge's evident alarm. "There was a little accident," said Mrs. Mudge, reluctantly. "Some mischievous boy had been knocking and running away; so, when your father knocked, I thought it might be he, and and I believe I threw some water on him. But I hope he has forgiven it, as it wasn't intentional.
Mudge's removal to a higher sphere to a more commanding position, that is, though to a much lower neighbourhood would have been described still better as a luxury than as the mere simplification, the corrected awkwardness, that she contented herself with calling it. He had at any rate ceased to be all day long in her eyes, and this left something a little fresh for them to rest on of a Sunday.
I prefer an inland route to one along the coast, because in the latter case we should have to follow its various sinuosities, and have to cross the rivers at their mouths, where they are probably the broadest; whereas by keeping inland we may steer a direct course, and are more likely to find game and obtain fresh water." "I am of Mr Mudge's opinion," observed Burton.
"There's my best broom broken; cost forty-two cents only last week." She turned and contemplated the scene of devastation. This yielded her little consolation. "At least thirty cabbages destroyed by that scamp of a cow," she exclaimed in a tone bordering on despair. "I wish I'd a hit her. If I'd broken my broom over her back I wouldn't a cared so much. And it's all Mudge's fault.
"Why, yes," said Symes not too willingly. "They're going to the Hall now to hold the services." He hated to be separated from Capital even for so short a time, besides he had a hope that his "magnetic personality" and personal explanations might go a long way toward softening any criticisms he might make when he noted the discrepancies between Mudge's statements and the actual conditions.
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