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But it can't be helped now," added Miss Pritty, with a resigned shudder, "and we have the greatest reason to be thankful that their hope of a good ransom made them treat us as well as they did; but go on, dear, you were saying that it was fortunate that these p-pirates "
"Oh!" screamed Miss Pritty, suddenly, as she drew the clothes over her head. "What's the matter?" exclaimed Aileen; "are you going to be " "Oh! No, no, no," said Miss Pritty, peeping out again; "how could you bring these dreadful creatures to my remembrance so abruptly? I had quite forgotten them for the time.
"`Das good, says I; `an' you better look out an' obey your orders, else de bowstring bery soon go round your pritty little neck. But tell me, Angelica, who brought me here? "`De Dey ob Algiers an' all his court, says she, wid a larf dat shut up her eyes an' showed what a enormous mout' she hab. "`Is he all safe, Angelica, says I `massa, I mean?
Casey, the old lineman, grinned at him over the familiar short, black pipe. "B'gorra, it's me ould fri'nd Neale." "It sure is. How're you Casey?" "Pritty good fur an ould soldier.... An' it's news I hear of yez, me boy." "What news?" "Shure yez hed a boost. Gineral Lodge hisself wor tellin' Grady, the boss, that yez had been given charge of Number Ten." "Yes, that's correct."
I fear that we have also lost our Canoe.all our involedes are on the recovery. we gave the Sick Chief a Severe Swet to day, Shortly after which he could move one of his legs and thy's and work his toes pritty well, the other leg he can move a little; his fingers and arms Seem to be almost entirely restored. he Seems highly delighted with his recovery.
Richling, incensed, had turned her back, and Richling was saying good-day. "She did say the room was vacant!" exclaimed the little wife, as they reached the sidewalk. But the next moment there came a quick twinkle from her eye, and, waving her husband to go on without her, she said, "You kin paz yondeh; at Madame La Rose I am shoe you be pritty sick."
Very proud he was of her, and prouder still when one Saturday he stood all comers glasses round at the Blandamer, and bid 'em drink to a pritty little lass what his wife had given him. Now he'd got a brace of 'em, he said; for he'd kep' that other little boy what Sophia brought when she married him, and treated the child for all the world as if he was his very son.
Then he unrobed, and drawing on his trousers and a canvas jacket he issued from behind the funnel which had been his robing-room and went aft, where he found Aileen seated between her friend Miss Pritty and her father. "Miss Hazlit," he said with a peculiar smile, "allow me to introduce you to an old friend." He held up before her the carved steel box.
After Miss Pritty had gone out, the first person who chanced to call was the spouse of Mr Timms, the green-grocer, who had obviously recovered from her illness. "Is Miss Pritty at 'ome?" she asked. "No, ma'am, she ain't, she's hout," answered the small domestic. "Ah! Well, it don't much matter.
"Tommy Higgins," she said, to Anne in an interval of housework, "kem home from Texas pritty much the same, with a face an him as long as yer arm, an' his mouth shut up like an old door. Even himself cudn't open it. He spint money free, an' av coorse that talked for him.
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