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She took away her hand and he made a great show of returning to common sense. "I reckon we are a pretty good pair of friends, after all. But you mustn't be scared of me, Miss Sheila. That does hurt. Let's forget you told me that." "Yes please!" "Well, then to get back to business. Do you recollect a story I told you?" "A story? Oh, yes about an Englishman ?" "Yes, ma'am.
Couldn't you just as well show me the place Sunday?" For no reason that she could assign, and very much against her will, Johnnie's face flushed deeply. "I reckon I couldn't," she answered evasively. "Hit's a long ways up and hit's a long ways up." "And yet you're going to walk it after a week's work here in the mill?" persisted Stoddard.
Thus there are three distinct "Turkish" elements in Turkey, divided by blood and vocation and social type; and even if we reckon all who speak some form of Turkish as one group, they only amount to 30 or 40 per cent. of the whole population of the Empire. The rest are alien to the Turks and to one another.
Ah, here's Peters," he added as the hermit entered through the dining-room door at the side of the stairs. "All finished, gentlemen?" he asked, coming forward. "Now, this is solid comfort, ain't it? I reckon when you get a few days of this, you'll all become hermits, and build yourselves shacks on the mountain. Solid comfort.
Hale, 'to ask your old master if he would take you back again? It might be a poor chance, but it would be a chance. He looked up again, with a sharp glance at the questioner; and then tittered a low and bitter laugh. 'Measter! if it's no offence, I'll ask yo' a question or two in my turn. 'You're quite welcome, said Mr. Hale. 'I reckon yo'n some way of earning your bread.
I may be skinny and scrawny now, but I reckon you will be, too, when I get through with you, Joe Pomeroy! You're the sneakin'est sneak that ever lived except your brother. 'Fraid-cat, sneak, sneak, sneak, s-n-e-a-k " Words failed her.
Tess, desiring to avoid contact with him, stopped a few paces away. "Daddy ain't so well these days, Sandy," she answered. "His heart hurts 'im." "Ain't that too bad?" the man sympathized. "But, then, brat, yer daddy ain't so young as he were once. Reckon he air not long fer this world. When yer Daddy croaks, what'll you do, Tess? Ye'll need a home. Ye ought to be gettin' a man."
The Contessa herself was a woman who had somewhat passed her thirtieth year, not strikingly handsome, but exquisitely pretty. "There is," said a great French writer, "only one way in which a woman can be handsome, but a hundred thousand ways in which she can be pretty;" and it would be impossible to reckon up the number of ways in which Adeline di Rimini carried off the prize in prettiness.
We cast lots for the choice, and Demorest won, that one which you couldn't lift with one hand, you know," said Stacy. "Oh, couldn't I? I reckon you ain't goin' to give me the same chance that they did at the Mint, eh?"
She's worth a dozen of the long-boat and quite worth all the trouble we've took to put her where she is." Rejoining me as I stood watching the long-boat, that had been cast adrift, he remarked, with a clumsy effort at civility: "Tea'll be coming along aft in about five minutes, and I reckon you'll be glad of a cup.
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