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"That's Rupe Falardeau," continued my companion. "His father, old Rupe, got his eye taken down in a deck-fight with a Mississippi boatman; and this boy was born with the same mark, only the eye's lower down still. If that's to go on in the family, I guess there'll be a Falardeau with his eye in his knee, some time."
Rupe, don't bother about that. Perhaps I shouldn't have said anything to you." "Oh, that's all right. I'm glad you mentioned it."
Knives were then drawn and nourished, and matters were beginning to assume a serious aspect, when Walker made his appearance forward of the paddle-box, pointing a heavy pistol right at the head of the ringleader. "Rupe!" shouted he, in a voice that attracted immediate attention, "drop that knife, or else I shoot!"
Likewise he bragged to the other boys by the hour, Rupe Collins being the chief subject of encomium next to Penrod himself.
Stopping to wood at the mouth of a creek, a gang of raftsmen came on board, half-breed Canadians of fierce and demoralized aspect, men of great muscular strength, and armed heavily with axes and butcher-knives. The gang was led by Rupe Falardeau, a dangerous man, whether drunk or sober, and one whose antecedents were recorded in blood.
Have a chair." "Are you in the real estate business?" "I can't hear very well, and you'll have to speak at close range, Rupe." So they put their chairs close together, and Rupert repeated his last question. "Yes, a man must do something; but there's nothing going on now nothing in our line." Rupert looked in pity at his friend.
Deinde Pullus Aquilæ nidificabit in summa rupe totius Britanniæ: nec juvenis occidet, nec ad senem vivet. This, in an old copy, is Englished thus: 'After then, shall come through the south with the sun, on horse of tree, and upon all waves of the sea, the Chicken of the Eagle, sailing into Britain, and arriving anon to the house of the Eagle, he shall shew fellowship to them beasts.
You tried it twice this afternoon and I don't know how many times before, only you weren't strong enough after the first time. Anyway, I know what it is, and I don't " "Come on, Rupe," said Penrod. "Make the baby lick dirt."
He began a slow and deadly advance, whereupon Penrod timidly offered a diversion: "Say, Rupe, I got a box of rats in our stable under a glass cover, so you can watch 'em jump around when you hammer on the box. Come on and look at 'em." "All right," said the fat-faced boy, slightly mollified. "We'll let Dan kill 'em." "No, SIR! I'm goin' to keep 'em.
Since the passing of Penrod's Rupe Collins period he had experienced some severe qualms at the recollection of his last meeting with Marjorie and his Apache behaviour; in truth, his heart instantly became as wax at sight of her, and he would have offered her fair speech; but, alas! in Marjorie's wonderful eyes there shone a consciousness of new powers for his undoing, and she denied him opportunity.
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