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Be calm, child; let me see whether I cannot remedy your sad imprudence; and, that I may, pray tell me the whole truth. How did this come about?" In reply to this question, which she somewhat mistook, Julia sobbed out, "He met me c-coming out of the school, and asked to s-see me home. I said 'No thank you, because I th-thought of your warning.
"Well," he began again, "you s-see, we were all going to B-Big D- Duck for a month, an' F-Father said oh! our name is K-K-Kidd, you know, the K-Kidd kids, th-there! everybody has to spring that old chestnut about us, because they think it's f-funny. It's so old it's m-m-mouldy, but we might as well s-say it and g-g-get it over with!
"Hallo! you seem to have found your tongue all of a sudden!" "F-faix, then, it's b-bekaise of yer not houndin' me on. I c-c-can't stand bein' hurried, ye s-see. B-besides, I was havin' me little j-j-joke, an' I scarcely sp-splutter at all whin I'm j-j-jokin'." "Where did you come from?" demanded the chief, sharply. "From P-Pine Tree D-Diggin's." "Oh, indeed? When did you leave the camp?"
But somehow I'm venturing to cherish an absurd notion that I may s-see her." "Perhaps," said the Tracer, smiling. "Mr. Keen! You wouldn't say that if if there was no chance, would you? You wouldn't dash a fellow's hopes " "No, I wouldn't," said Mr. Keen. "I tell you frankly that I expect to find her." "To-day?" "We'll see," said Mr. Keen guardedly. "Come, Captain, don't look that way!
So I told C-Chichester everything and then he laughed, and I t-tried to k-kill him, but he got away and left me alone with him. He's always near me now always c-close behind me where I can't quite s-see him, only sometimes I hear him ch-choke, oh, my God, Beverley! like he did that night!
Chichester's pale face, while Barnabas leaned, twisted in his chair, and Mr. Smivvle busied himself with the oblong box. With shaking hands he took out the duelling-pistols, one by one, and laid them on the table. "We'll g-give him first choice, eh, Dig?" said Barrymaine. "Ah he's chosen, I s-see. Now we'll t-take opposite corners of the room and f-fire when you give the word, eh, Dig?"
And to his surprise and concern, as she stopped short on the grassy path, the eyes that Rachael turned toward him were brimming with tears. "You s-see what a baby I am becoming, Greg," she said unsteadily. "It's all your doing, I'm afraid! I haven't cried for years loneliness and injustice and unhappiness don't make me cry! But just lately I've known what it was to dream of of joy, Greg.
"Always ready to hilp the ladies be me sowl, Oi've married three of thim already. An' wus this Hicks's orthers, Stutter?" "N-n-no, not exactly," Brown admitted, with evident reluctance. "B-but ye s-s-see, she's a g-great friend o' B-B-Bill's, an' so I reckon it 'll be all r-right. Don't s-see how n-no harm kin be d-d-done."
"Yes," said I. And I told them my name. "That's my shirt you've got on, by the way." "T-t-tell him about it, S-S-Spike," said the one at the wheel. "Tell him yourself!" growled the other. "W-Well," said the steersman, giving the wheel a twist, "you s- see... you s-see... oh! I can't t-tell him, it makes me s- stutter so d-darned much!" "Go ahead!" returned Spike.
"I-I ain't much used t-t-to this sorter th-thing, an' maybe I-I ain't got no r-r-right ter be a-botherin' you with m-my affairs, nohow. But you s-see it's th-this way. I 've sorter t-took a big l-l-likin' to that dancin' girl. Sh-she 's a darn sight n-n-nearer my s-style than anything I 've been up a-against fer s-some time.
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