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She looked up at him then, and her eyes had again the quick, inquiring glance of some wild creature in a situation foreign to its habits. "Well," she said, "well! I guess I don't resk anything. An' if I did why, I'd resk it!" Jethro bent forward a little. He was smiling, and Dilly met the glance, half fascinated. She wondered that she could forget his smile; and yet she had forgotten it.
"May blow the bottom o' your old well out," muttered Jabe Clemmons, who dearly loved anything in the shape of a game of hazard. "I'll resk that," said the Deacon. "I kin dig an other well, if necessary." The Deacon's proposal was carried. Shorty, holding the butt of his gun carefully upright, fired down into the well.
Many's the time I've been close enough to fire at the eyeball of a Husshon, an' run the resk o' bein' blown to smithereens! calm and cool I alters was, too! Scarlit fever is an easy death from a warrior's p'int o' view!" "Speakin' of easy death," continued Timothy, "you know I'm a great one for words, bein' something of a scholard in my small way.
"Well, all I can say is," remarked Miss Vilda obstinately, "that those that's desirous of takin' in two strange children, and boardin' and lodgin' 'em till they get able to do it for themselves, and runnin' the resk of their turnin' out heathens and malefactors like the folks they came from, can do it if they want to.
"Well, we can't resk being as long as we ought to, because it mayn't take very long for Uncle Silas to hear from down there by New Orleans. He'll hear Jim ain't from there. Then his next move will be to advertise Jim, or something like that. So we can't resk being as long digging him out as we ought to. By rights I reckon we ought to be a couple of years; but we can't.
You kin go en lead Marse Scoville right off, en if Perkins follow I settle 'im." "Do you think there's no other way?" Miss Lou asked, with 'quick, agitated breathing. "Fo' de Lawd, I doesn't." "I don't know what they would do to me in the morning, I'd be sent away. Oh, you can't realize the risk I would take." "'Spects not, mistis. I ony know Marse Scoville tek mo' resk fer you ef he could."
But I ain' gwyne to resk no mo' money in stock. De cow up 'n' died on my han's." "So you lost the ten dollars." "No, I didn't lose it all. I on'y los' 'bout nine of it. I sole de hide en taller for a dollar en ten cents." "You had five dollars and ten cents left. Did you speculate any more?" "Yes. You know that one-laigged nigger dat b'longs to old Misto Bradish?
"I wa'n't findin' no fault," he said uneasily. "I was just explainin' why I couldn't resk any more o' my money on him." "That's all right," said the artist. "I want to see him." He found Uncle William sunning the kittens at the east of the house. He looked up with a nod as the artist appeared. "They're doin' fust-rate," he said, adjusting the clam-basket a little.
I figgers, first dash out o' the box, that a safe, easy trail to high ground is to give her a table an' let her deal a little stud for the boys. This yere wouldn't be no resk, an' the rake is a shore thing for nine or ten dollars a night. Bein' a benev'lence, I knows the boys would set in mighty free, an' the trouble would be corraled right thar.
"'Maybe you don't, Smiley says. 'Maybe you understand frogs and maybe you don't understand 'em; maybe you've had experience, and maybe you ain't only a amature, as it were. Anyways, I've got MY opinion, and I'll resk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
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