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He still believes he could smell the tuberoses." O'Neil seemed to derive great amusement from her account of what followed. He had already heard Dr. Gray's version of the affair, but Eliza had a refreshing way of saying things. "I brought you a little present," he said when she had finished. She took the package he handed her, exclaiming with a slight flush of embarrassment, "A s'prise!
I know you don't like it, so I studied your pecooliarities. Fact is, I studies yer too much," and the mate looked mutinous. Cap'n Pigg scowled. "You shet yer 'ead," he grunted as he stamped off below. He went to a small cupboard in the corner of the cabin, and mixed himself a stiff "go" of gin and water, which he tossed off at one gulp, saying: "Haydn's 'S'prise, eh? Haydn's S'prise be d dished!
We're workin' in towards it now. "You sees, followin' the Stingin' Lizard's jump into the misty beyond which it's that sudden I offers two to one them angels notes a look of s'prise on the Stingin' Lizard's face as to how he comes to make the trip-Cherokee goes on dealin' faro same as usual. As I says before, he ain't no talker, nohow; now he says less than ever.
Empty and silent stood the little house, like the dwelling of the Three Talking Bears, and little Tot might have been Silver Hair herself. "Dwandma, dwandma!" she called. But no grandmamma replied. "Perhaps she has dus dorn out a minute," thought she. "I'll det up on dis lounge and tover dis shawl over me, and s'prise her when she tums back." Something else besides the shawl covered Tot's eyes.
Benedict declared himself ready for bed. Jim had impatiently waited for this announcement, for he was anxious to have a long talk with Mike about the new house, the plans for which he had brought with him. "Clear off yer table," said Jim, "an' peel yer eyes, Mike, for I'm goin' to show ye somethin' that'll s'prise ye." When his order was obeyed, he unrolled the precious plans.
"We must not let Cousin Charlotte know," Esther had said. "She is so kind she would not like us to worry, so we won't say anything about it to her if we can help." "We'll s'prise her," Poppy had cried gleefully; so, catching Esther's eye, she remembered, and grew silent again, leaving Cousin Charlotte more puzzled than ever.
"Sure I can't, Suey! The General's sittin' on it!" And Suey's long-nailed Mongolian talons went up in despair as he turned appealingly to their rescuer. "Sitting on what, Doyle? Quick!" said Mrs. Stannard. "The sherry, ma'am! The doctor sent it over wid his comps to s'prise him, an' my orders was to fill the little glasses when I'd took in the soup, an' I put it under the barrel chair " But Mrs.
"What d'yer say? let's s'prise Gil, and go down to the landin' an' meet him when he comes in from fishin'," suggested Foley, knowing the intense love she had for her brother. "That'll be lovely, won't it? And Gil will be so glad if I come." Lillian whipped the hoop rapidly, and Tom kept pace with her. "Gil will be surprised, sure enough, when he sees me coming, won't he?"
"CARIBOU!" Rouletta's eyes were bright with curiosity and an emotion far more material. "Where in the world ?" "Some hinjun hunter mak' beeg kill. I got more s'prise as dat, too. By golly! Dis goin' be regular Chris'mas for you." Rouletta stirred. There was stubborn defiance in her tone when she said: "I'm going to get up and I'm going outdoors clothes or no clothes.
'Twouldn't s'prise me none if that redskin had a wheen more o' them sharp-p'inted sticks in his The Lord be praised for all His marcies! the chief's got him!" But Uncanoola had not. He came in presently, his black eyes snapping with disappointment, saying in answer to Yeates's question that the yell had been his own; that his tomahawk had sped no truer than the old borderer's bullet.
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