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Arabella was too spunkless to applaud; Patricia was too jealous. Arabella, after her own dull fashion, had enjoyed the music. Patricia surely had not. Patricia never could bear to see or hear any one do anything! "Let's go up to our room," she whispered. "P'rhaps some of the others will play or sing," ventured Arabella, who wished to remain. "Let 'em!"
Anisty stuffed something bulky back into his pocket and wadded another something green and yellow colored into a little pill, which he presently flicked carelessly across the table. The detective's large mottled paw closed over it and moved toward his waistcoat. "As I was sayin'," he resumed, "I'm sorry yeh don't see yer way to givin' us a hand. But p'rhaps yeh're right.
"I suppose Mary is gone somewhere else," said little Joan, half grieved; "it was n't in her way to come here, p'rhaps, or you and me we'd have been so glad, Rhoda!" "Perhaps she 'll come next Christmas," answered Rhoda.
"How can you say that, Missis," said Will Garvie, "you bein' old enough to remember the time w'en there wasn't five joiners' shops in Clatterby, with p'rhaps fifty men and boys employed, and now there's hundreds of joiners, and other shops of all kinds in the town, besides these here railway works which, as you know, keeps about 3500 hands goin' all the year round?"
"Well," said Leander, "they tell me it's very gay in the season. P'rhaps I went at the wrong time of the year for it." "What you call wrong time for it?" "Slack nothing going on," he explained; "like it was when I went last Saturday." "You went last Saturday? And you stay a long time?" "I didn't stay no longer than I could help," Leander said. "All our party was glad to get away."
"If by accident you should happen to see the desperado in question who, I assume, can be in no way your friend I hope you will tell him that I, too, will be at the Bella Union at eight o'clock, and that I will come heeled." "You'll be comin' alone?" said the man, "or p'rhaps yore friend "
Didn't know but you was. Somebody said you was. Richard. Somebody is mistaken. Giles. P'rhaps to-morrow, or nex' day? Richard. Rather doubtful, Giles. Slocum ain't goin' to give up business, is he? Richard. Why shouldn't he, if it doesn't pay? The business is carried on for his amusement and profit; when the profit stops it won't be amusing any longer. Mr.
"Th' pa-apers say, 'Two gr-reat fortunes united'; an', if that's it, they didn't need th' sarvices iv a priest, but a lawyer an' a thrust comp'ny. P'rhaps, with all th' certyfied checks, 'twas two rale people that was marrid; an', if that's so, it explains th' prisince if Father Murphy."
"That's a real nice boy you said so, didn't you, Lottie? And I wish he'd come and play with me," said the little fellow by the young lady's side, as Billy turned away, gracefully thanked, to come back to me with his cheeks roseate with blushes. As he heard this, Billy sidled along the edge of the tank for a moment, then faced about and said: "P'rhaps I will some day where do you live?"
'Now, look ye here, my lad, said the Captain to Rob, when he had matured this notable scheme, 'to-morrow, I shan't be found in this here roadstead till night not till arter midnight p'rhaps. But you keep watch till you hear me knock, and the moment you do, turn-to, and open the door. 'Very good, Captain, said Rob.
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