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"I hadn't got more'n half a mile afore I see a feller rite ahead of me, a-leadin' that identical bar, thet bed been chasin' me all day. "I never was so took down in my life boys, I wouldn't a bin s'prised at anything, arter thet. I mustered up spunk enuff ter speak to the feller, and he told me 'twas a tame bar, thet belonged ter him, thet hed got loose thet day, and he'd bin up a-findin' him.
Scattergood stared owlishly at Mary Beatty. "Now, what d'you think of that, eh? Shouldn't be s'prised if that was the i-dentical paper that was weighin' on the mind of young Mr. Curtis. Shouldn't be a mite s'prised if 'twas." "What is it, Mr. Baines?" asked Mary Beatty. "A will?" "Wa-al, offhand I'd say it was consid'able better 'n a will.
When I come to think whose daughter you are. mine! I'm s'prised at you, continued Torn, whose virtuous indignation waxed with every word. 'Oh. I'm so sorry! said the child. 'I won't do it any more. This contrition of the child's only fanned the flame of Tom's virtuous indignation. I'm s'prised at you, Winifred.
"I'm afraid I am, nephew." "Do you really mean that you want to marry my Auntie Anthea?" "I do." "As much as Mr. Cassilis does?" "A great deal more, I think." Small Porges sighed again, and shook his head very gravely indeed: "Uncle Porges," said he, "I'm s'prised at you!" "I rather feared you would be, nephew." "It's all so awful' silly, you know! why do you want to marry her?"
"It's a pretty quiet place here ain't much of a village, but then you said you wanted a quiet place to write in. I guess you'll be s'prised there's another orther here. Maybe you know him, his name's Longworth, John Longworth? Don't! Why, he lives to New York! No, he ain't right here in the house, he's across the street to the Bangses', but you'll see him," she said, encouragingly.
"I calc'late," he said to himself, "that this here dicker'll keep Crane and Keith gropin' and wonderin' and scrutinizin' more or less when it gits to their ears. Shouldn't be s'prised if it come to worry 'em a mite." So, having created a diversion to conceal the movements of his main attack, Scattergood got out his maps and began scientifically to plan his fall and winter campaign.
"I'm s'prised at you, Mamma Cat!" said Raggedy Ann, "Fido has been watching your kittens for an hour while you were away. He wouldn't hurt them for anything!" "I'm sorry, then," said Mamma Cat. "You must trust Fido, Mamma Cat!" said Raggedy Ann, "because he loves you and anyone who loves you can be trusted!" "That's so!" replied Mamma Cat.
Luis was "muy s'prised" that Annie-Many-Ponies had ever believed that Ramon would marry her, beautiful though she was, charming though she was, altogether irresistible though she was Luis became slightly incoherent here and lapsed into swift rolling Spanish words which she did not understand.
"I don't know what he wants of another girl, unless it is for Len and Hector to tease." "I thought you liked Len?" "He used to be nice, but since he's began going to scollege, he's horrid. He saw me yesterday morning in Cherry's dress, 'cause I tore my last clean one; and he bugged his two eyes out like he was awfully s'prised, and said, 'Mah deah child, yoah dress is too long!
But I tell you, when ye're old's I am, 'n' look back on 't, ye'll be s'prised ter see how short 'tis, an' ye'll reelize more what a fool a man is, or a woman too, an' I do s'pose they're the foolishest o' ther two, ter waste a minnit out on 't on querrils, or any other kind o' foolin'." The Prince's Little Sweetheart. She was very young. No man had ever made love to her before.
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