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Five thousand dollars, minimum per person, is what we're going to need, altogether." Gimp Hines, who always acted as if he expected to get off the Earth, too, had yielded his position inside the Archer to Tiflin, and had hobbled close. "The cost scares a guy who has to go to school, too, so he can pass the tests," he said. "Well, don't worry, Frank.
An opportunity also presents this morning of seeing the amount of obstinacy and perverseness that manages to find lodgement within the unsightly curves and angles of a runaway camel. A riding-camel, led by its owner, scares at the bicycle, and, breaking away, leads him a lively chase through a belt of low sand ridges near the road, jolting various packages off his back as he runs.
Despite all the scares through which we had passed during the winter and spring, we had escaped the war between ourselves and Russia with which we had been so often threatened, and the purpose of the Congress was to render such a war impossible in the immediate future. It was this summer of 1878 that also witnessed Disraeli's complete triumph over his enemies and his rivals.
Why, just think, over there" Pierce waved his hand toward the northward panorama of white peaks and purple valleys "everything is unknown!" His face lit up with some restless desire which the Frenchman appeared to understand, for he nodded seriously. "Sometimes it scares me a little." "Wat you scare' 'bout, you?" "Myself, I suppose. Sometimes I'm afraid I haven't the stuff in me to last."
Nor, indeed, was the public mind greatly moved; they were so much accustomed to Boer scares at Pretoria, and hitherto these had invariably ended in smoke. But all of a sudden, on the morning of the eighteenth of December, came the news of the proclamation of the Republic.
Bobbsey, with a smile. "That was it. The sun was so hot, that she just slept a little as she was fishing. She might have had a bite, and that awakened her so suddenly that she gave a jump and fell over the rail. I must have it built higher. Then there won't be any danger." "Yes, do," said Mrs. Bobbsey. "We've had scares enough."
"Dead sure thing! And that scares me too. I don't know how I'd stand being tied down to a stake." She laid a hand on his arm. "Now see here, Mose, you let me help you. You know all about cattle and the trail, you can shoot and throw a rope, but you're a babe at lots of other things. You've got to get to work at something, settle right down, and dig up some dust. Now isn't that so?"
Drusilla watched Grandma Perkins, to see that she was not nervous; but after a few miles had been passed, the old lady sat up straighter in her shawls, and her eyes became bright. "Drusilla," she asked, "how fast are we goin'?" "I don't know," Drusilla said. "We'll ask the man." Twenty-five miles an hour, the chauffeur told them. "We'll go slower if it scares you, Grandma," Drusilla said gently.
Once he came up under my paddle, and I plucked a feather from his back before he got away. This last appearance always scares him out of his wits, and you get what you have been working hard for a sight of Hukweem getting under way.
That is what scares me most." "My child, Lablache is the cause of that. The same as he is the cause of all troubles in Foss River. Your uncle realizes the consequences of the terrible losses he has incurred. He knows, only too well, that he is utterly in the money-lender's power.
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