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Presently the talking stopped and the plapping of the bare feet approached the door of the room shutting the two men in. The Squire set it slightly ajar, in spite of Dylks's involuntary, "Oh, don't!" and faced some one close to the opening. "That you, Sally? You haven't come to borrow anything at this hour of the night?"
Why, you oughtn't to be sent to the penitentiary, or even lynched. You ought to be put amongst the county idiots in the poorhouse, and " There came a soft plapping as of bare feet on the puncheon floor of the porch; hesitating about and then pausing at the door of the opposite room. Then there came with the increased smell of cooking, the talking of women.
Oh, I suppose she was crying then some of her tears, idle tears Hark, there is Barnes Newcome's eloquence still plapping on like water from a cistern and our thoughts, where have they wandered? far away from the lecture as far away as Clive's almost.
Flanigan, the stewardess, and the ladies of our party, and the tips of the noses of the Constantinople beauties as they passed by leering from their yakmacs, waddling and plapping in their odious yellow papooshes. And this day is to be marked with a second white stone, for having given the lucky writer of the present, occasion to behold a second beauty.
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