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She looked at him with a nervous repugnance to his appearance, which she tried to subdue. He did not seem to notice it. "Wa'n't lookin' for me yit-a-while, was ye?" he asked. "Kind o' thought I'd s'prise ye. Did s'prise the man down in the hall. Didn't want to let me in till I told him who I was. Little gal in the entry says ye're movin'; ye do look all tore up, for a fac'." Mr.
"Come on now, we'll start and walk on the snow, and we'll s'prise Daddy and Mother," cried Russ. He did manage to glide over the snow, the broad, long barrel staves keeping him from sinking in the soft drifts. Laddie did not do quite so well, but he managed to get along.
"Have you ever thought o' going on the stage?" he ses, arter Rupert 'ad told 'im of his dislike for the Army. "No," ses Rupert, staring. "You s'prise me," ses the big man; "you're wasting of your life by not doing so." "But I can't act," ses Rupert. "Stuff and nonsense!" ses the big man. "Don't tell me. You've got an actor's face. I'm a manager myself, and I know.
"They mighty fond of each other, though. Seems like she's not in a hurry to marry and leave her pappy." "Wall naow, I shouldn't be s'prised ef Miss Sally never did git married, talkin' abaout marryin'. 'Twould not s'prise me a-tall, 'twouldn't." Mr. Quin Beasley was talking. Mr. Beasley was the keeper of the Grange store and admittedly a man of fine conversational powers.
"Ay," Tumm drawled, "it made me feel bad t' think o' what she'd been wantin' all them years; an' then I wished I'd been kinder t' Liz.... An', 'Tumm, thinks I, 'you went an' come ashore t' stop this here thing; but you better let the skipper have his little joke, for t'will on'y s'prise him, an' it won't do nobody else no hurt.
"'In two months the snow melts down, an' I says adios to my twelve deer an' starts for camp. Which you-alls mebby imagines my s'prise when I beholds my pony a-grazin' out in the open, saddle on an' right. Yere's how it is: He's been paradin' up an' down the bed of Red River onder that snow tunnel for two months. Oh! he feeds easy enough. Jest bites the yerbage along the banks.
His father started from his chair as if he had been shot. The little girl laughed and clapped her hands. 'You brought him as a s'prise, dad. You brought him to play with me! 'On my honour I didn't, True. It's some magic, I think. Come here my boy. How on earth did you get here? Bobby marched up to his father.
Looey Sam is goin' to fry my fishes for dinner, to s'prise auntie. Come, Be'trice!" "Why don't you go with the child, Beatrice? You grow more selfish every day." Mrs. Lansell could not endure selfishness in others. "You know he will not give us any peace until you do." Dorman instantly proceeded to make good his grandmother's prophecy, and wept so that one could hear him a mile. "Oh, dear me!
She took a step forward, and held her hand out, though rather timidly. "But she mustn't eat it without asking her mamma," said Ruth. "Yes; O, yes," cried Miss Flyaway, opening her little mouth for the first time, and shutting it again over a big bite of tart; "I want to eat it and s'prise my mamma." Abner laughed in his hearty fashion.
"She will apologize; and around the table is a good place for the big 's'prise' she is expecting." "Very well," she answered reluctantly. Excusing himself to the little dinner party, he disappeared behind the parlor door, whispered a few words to the conscience-stricken culprit in the corner, and in a surprisingly short time reappeared with two smiling little girls.
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