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"I can mind every serious fight o' married parties, every murder, every manslaughter, even every pocket-picking leastwise large ones that 't has been my lot to witness. But a selling? Was it done quiet-like?" "Well, yes. I think so." The furmity woman half shook her head again. "And yet," she said, "I do.
"I wish you wouldn't go, father. It do look as if you had lost trust in Denas misdoubting one's own is a whist poor business and not worth the following." "Aw, my dear, I just want to talk a few words to her quiet-like. If Denas is companying with Roland Tresham she oughtn't to do it, and I must tell her so, that I must. My dear girl, right is right in the devil's teeth."
Ken appeared at the head of the stairs and had started down, when the door-bell rang. Worry opened the door to admit Murray, the trainer; Dale, the old varsity captain, and the magnificently built Stevens, guard and captain of the football team. "Hello! Worry," called out Murray, cheerily. "How're the kids? Boys, you look good to me. Trim and fit, and all cool and quiet-like.
It was a still day, with a little haze, like white sand sifted across a sunbeam on a kitchen table. The lad was quiet-like all day, chasing me about with his eyes. "Sick?" says I. "No," says he. "Whitmarsh drunk?" says I. "No," says he. A little after dark I was lying on a coil of ropes, napping it. The boys were having the Bay of Biscay quite lively, and I waked up on the jump in the choruses.
I just turns, like this 'ere, my head over me shoulder, quite confidential, and I says, 'Good Lord, I thank yer. I'm no hand at tracts and Bible-readin's, but I'm not such a blamed fool, Mistress Marie, as to think that this 'ere rum-go of a world made itself. No, not quite. So I just put in a word, quiet-like, to the Creator." Marie was setting before him such luxuries as she could command.
If he wants his dinner, and we sets it down by his door stoop, he'll tek it. If he's hed his dinner he wean't touch it." "Then let's make haste and get there before dinnertime," cried Tom. "Pole away, Dave." "Nay, we've got to go quiet-like, my lad. We don't want to scare the fish, and send 'em to the bottom to lie sulky. Nice wisp o' duck yon."
"You can give me," John Steele spoke bruskly, taking from his pocket a note-book, "this Tom Rogers' address." Joe looked at the other, seemed about to speak on the impulse, but did not; then his hand slowly ceased its motion. "I, sir you see, I can't quite do that for Tom's laying low, you understand. But if you would let him call around quiet-like, on you " John Steele replaced the note-book.
I supposed the doctor had went to sleep. But all of a sudden I looks up, and he is in the door of the tent staring at me. I seen he had been in there at it hard agin, and thinking, quiet-like, all this time. He stood there in the doorway of the tent, with the firelight onto his face and his red beard, and his arms stretched out, holding to the canvas and looking at me strange and wild.
To come farther they hesitated until they had made it perfectly clear that they acted in his best interests. Even Byron Lukens was willing to let "bygones be bygones." "I'm just doing of my duty, Mr. Blight," he said in a wheedling tone, "and if you'll come along quiet-like I'll say nothing about it to the squire." "You can fix it all up with the squire," I heard Joe Holmes say.
Parker had noticed, had been "quiet-like"; he had said very little indeed, but a nervous strain was evident in the brightness of his eyes; but in answer to a conventional inquiry he had declared himself extremely well. Mr. Vincent had looked at him for just an instant longer than usual as he shook hands, but he said nothing. Mrs.
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