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Therewith, Ramsey coughed as long as he could cough, and when he felt that no more should be done in this way, he wiped his face again an act of necessity and quaveringly began: "Gentlemen and ladies, or ladies and gentlemen, in making the refutation of my opponent, I feel that I feel that hardly anything more ought to be said."
I advised Mr. Haley ter let well enough alone." "Then they know who is the thief at last?" asked Janice, quaveringly. "No." "But they know Mr. Haley never stole them coins!" cried Aunt Almira. "Wal ef they do, they don't admit of it," drawled Uncle Jason. "What in tarnation is it, then, Dad?" demanded Marty.
"Shut up er I'll smack yer mout'. See?" As his sister continued her lamentations, he suddenly swore and struck her. The little girl reeled and, recovering herself, burst into tears and quaveringly cursed him. As she slowly retreated her brother advanced dealing her cuffs. The father heard and turned about. "Stop that, Jim, d'yeh hear? Leave yer sister alone on the street.
For a moment she met his unflinching gaze steadily, then her glance fell, and she said in a low voice, "Very well." When they reached the alcove, she inquired rather quaveringly for she saw something had happened which had finally settled all the young man's doubts "Is it the American Ambassador?" "No; there was little trouble there. He expects to meet you later in the evening.
There were some more tears after that, but not such bitter ones; for Angus McRae's son could not but believe that God heard prayer, and he waited for his answer in a child's faith. "He's sure to send Daddy soon, Collie," he said comfortingly; and then, quaveringly, after a few moments of intense listening and waiting, "It wouldn't be like God not to, now, would it, Collie?"
For a long time she was silent, watching Lawler, a dread wonder filling her. And at last, when the continuing silence began to affect her with its horrible monotony, she said, quaveringly: "Did you Are they dead?" "Yes," said Lawler, gruffly; "I took them out back of the windbreak." He wheeled, to look straight at her, his gaze level and somber. "I had to do it there was no other way.
But the aspect of Kirby's distorted face there in the dying firelight shocked the Syrian into a grunt of terror. Scrambling to his feet, he sputtered quaveringly. "Tame yourself, howadji, I enseech you! Why are you not rejoiceful? Will it not mean much money for you; and " "You mangy brown rat!" shouted Kirby in fury. "What in blazes have you done?
He paused, gazing over her head. Missy felt her heart pause, too. "Oh, anykind of a writing job," she proffered quaveringly. "I can't think of anything here that's not taken care of, except" his glance fell on the ornate-looking "society page" of the Macon City Sunday Journal, spread out on his desk "a society column." In her swift breath of ecstasy Missy forgot to note the twinkle in his eye.
"Aaron!" his wife began, quaveringly, but the Cap'n leaped toward her, pulled the mouth of the puckering-bag over her head, and hopped into the house. When at last she ventured to peer in at the sitting-room window, he was tearing the book of "Rules of the Smyrna Ancient and Honorable Firemen's Association," using both his hands and his teeth, and worrying it as a dog worries a bone.
"John," she cried, with a gasp in her voice, calling him by his Christian name for the first time in years, "don't you think that if you had been kinder to me at first, things might have been different?" "It seems to me," he answered, not looking at her, "that it is rather late in the day for discussing that question." "I have much to regret," she said quaveringly. "Have you nothing?"
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