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Rusk's observation about the agreeability of new-comers I found to be true; for as Madame began to lose that character, her good-humour abated very perceptibly, and she began to show gleams of another sort of temper, that was lurid and dangerous.
Ben Rusk, he went to the World's Fair, too, and he saw a statchue that was bigger 'n our house and all pure gold. You didn't see that." "I did so! And we got cousins in Chicago and we stayed with them, and Cousin Edgar is a very prominent doctor for eyenear and stummick." "Aw, Ben Rusk's pa is a doctor, too. And he's got a brother what's going to be a sturgeon." "I got a brother.
"Take them away, then; are they tied?" "Only two." "Break the halters then, and start them full speed, as if they were frightened; it will not awaken their suspicion." "Why not settle the matter with them all at once? we would get their saddles." "Fool! suppose they are a vanguard of General Rusk's army, and one of them should escape?
Rusk's voice subsided to a sort of wailing; the men were talking all together, and I suppose the door opened, for I heard some of the voices, on a sudden, as if in the room; and then came a strange lull, and talking in very low tones, and not much even of that. 'What is it, Mary? what can it be? I ejaculated, not knowing what horror to suppose.
So I laid myself down again, though with a throbbing at my heart, and an ominous feeling of expectation, listening and fancying footsteps. I was going to sleep when I heard the bell ring again; and, in a few minutes, Mrs. Rusk's energetic step passed along the gallery; and, listening intently, I heard, or fancied, my father's voice and hers in dialogue.
She stuffed a book hastily between her dress and the chair, and received me in a state of langour which, had it not been for Mrs. Rusk's comfortable assurances, would have frightened me. 'I hope you are better, Madame, I said, approaching. 'Better than I deserve, my dear cheaile, sufficiently well. The people are all so good, trying me with every little thing, like a bird; here is café Mrs.
Say, that's a fine dress Gertie 's got on to-night, ain't it.... Say, I been learning to play crokinole at Ben Rusk's. You got a board, haven't you? Would you like to play? Does the doctor play?" "Indeed, I haven't the slightest idea, but I have very little doubt that he does he plays tennis so beautifully. He is going to teach Gertrude, in the spring."
Here honest Mary Quince, who enjoyed Mrs. Rusk's satire, a weapon in which she was not herself strong, laughed outright. 'Turn down the bed, Mary. She's very agreeable she is, just now all new-comers is; but she did not get many compliments from me, Miss no, I rayther think not.
"Take them away, then; are they tied?" "Only two." "Break the halters then, and start them full speed, as if they were frightened; it will not awaken their suspicion." "Why not settle the matter with them all at once? we would get their saddles." "Fool! suppose they are a vanguard of General Rusk's army, and one of them should escape?
'Here! help, help, help! I cried, trying to force open the door. 'Shove it, shove it, for God's sake! he's across it, cried Mrs. Rusk's voice from within; 'drive it in. I can't move him. I strained all I could at the door, but ineffectually. We heard steps approaching. The men were running to the spot, and shouting as they did so
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