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I'll take care of you; and I'll give you a chance to make a man of yourself." Nick laughed coarsely. "So, that's your game, is it? Well, it won't work. I know now why Bill Baldwin's got you hangin' 'round, pretendin' you're a tenderfoot, you damned spy. Come on, Joe." He turned to ride on; and Joe, with a slinking, sidewise look at Patches, started to follow.
They'd never 'a' come down here, pretendin' they was doin' good, killin' one bedbug out of ten million and offerin' one pair of good pants where a hundred thousand pairs is needed. They'd better go read about themselves in their Bible what Jesus says. He knew 'em. He belonged to us and they crucified him."
Yes, I like an English church; but as for Minister pretendin' for to come for to go for to preach agin that beautiful long-haired young rebel, Squire Absalom, for 'stealin' the hearts of the people, why it's rather takin' the rag off the bush, ain't it?
And when a short time afterwards he asked me what time of day it wuz, pretendin' his watch had stopped, I looked full and cold in his face for several minutes before I sez in icy axents, "I don't know!" Every word fallin' from my lips like ice-suckles from a ruff in a January thaw, and then I turned my back and went away from him. Vain attempt! What wicked arts men do possess!
The other boys began to catch on and grin. The Aid's face flushed, but Shorty continued his loud objurgations at the mule: "You misbegotten pill o' perdition; you pompous, puddin'-headed staff officer; you miserable errand-boy for the General, puttin' on more airs than the General; you half-hatched officer, runnin' around yit with the shell on your head, and pretendin' to be cock-o'-the-walk, won't you git up?"
She's got some plan in her head, she told me so. She may pretend " His daughter interrupted him. "Father!" she exclaimed indignantly. "Why, Daddy! did you tell Mother THAT?" "Course I did! Why not? It's so, ain't it? What is the plan, Gertie? What are you up to? You are pretendin', aren't you? Don't tell me you ain't! Don't tell me " "I shan't tell you anything. You don't deserve to be told.
This done, she administered a smart slap, plunged over to the nearest tree, and set the doll with a thud on the grass to rest against its trunk. "Sit up like a lady," she commanded. "Oh, don't!" cried Phronsie, quite horror-stricken, and running over on distressed feet. "She's my child," she gasped. "No, she's mine, an' I'm teachin' her manners. I ain't through pretendin' yet," said the girl.
In other words, the thing seems to be a syndicate of robbers operated and directed from a central point by men of brains and resource." "An' whar's ther central p'int?" "St. Louis." "Ah, I begins ter smell a mice. So yer gradooly led up ter this place, pretendin' ter sell hosses, eh?" "No; we'll kill two birds with one stone.
"Oh, come now," laughed "Dora"; "we're not all so bad as that!" "Not at your time of life w'en you're after the girls and pretendin' you're angels to catch 'em; it's after you've got 'em in your power that things change," said Mrs Bray.
"`My Betty at Brighton! says I pretendin' great surprise, for I had a darter at that time whom I had called after your mother, for that was her name too but she's dead, poor thing! she was dyin' in hospital at the very time we was speakin', though I didn't know at the time that her end was so near `my Betty at Brighton! says I. `Why, she's in hospital. Bin there for some weeks.
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