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I want you to come back. Why, even that dratted Queen of Sheby needs you, Ida May or, whatever your name is! We've got to have you!" "Prudence can't scurcely get around the house. And that niece of hers sits there like a stick or a stun, not willin' to scurce lift her hand to help. Thank the Lord she's goin' home to-day. Her visit's come to an end. She don't like it down here.
"He wus a sorter slim, long-legged chap, thet young actor feller I showed the trail down ter Bolton ter, an' he scurcely spoke a word all durin' thet whol' blame ride. Search me, gents, if I c'd git either head er tail outer jist whut he wus up to, only thet he proposed ter knock ther block off some feller if he had the good luck ter ketch 'im.
Captain Obed was saved the embarrassment of further protestations by the entrance of Thankful herself; Emily accompanied her. The captain shook hands with Mrs. Barnes and her cousin and hastened to announce that he heard "big news" down street and had run over to find out how much truth there was in it. "Couldn't scurcely believe it, myself," he declared.
I give you my word I couldn't scurcely tell where your neck left off and the strip of red flannel you made me tie 'round it begun." "Don't make no difference! I FELT pale, anyhow. And I didn't eat no more'n Ros does. You'll have to give in to that, Dorindy. I didn't eat nothin' but beef tea and gruel." "You et enough of them to float a schooner." "Maybe I did," with grieved dignity; "maybe I did.
You see yourself only yesterday how she is like to come to her death because of the mare." "I know that you should have somebody living with you, Cap'n Ira," urged Tunis. "But what does this mean?" "I I can't scurcely tell you, Tunis. I swan! I was goin' to murder the old critter." "What do you mean?" gasped Tunis in apparent horror. "Not Aunt Prue?"
Orion glowered at him. "You'd better have a care, Josh," he growled. "That schooner is hoodooed, as sure as sure! She'll stub her nose some night on Lighthouse Point Reef, if she don't do worse. You can't scurcely steer her proper." "Nonsense, 'Rion!" spoke up Zebedee Pauling. "I'd like to sail on her myself."
"They call you Comfort Paine," she said, "and you are a comfort to everybody else's pain. Yet you ain't out of pain a minute scurcely, yourself. I never see anything like it. If 'twan't wicked I'd say that name was give you by the Old Scratch himself, as a sort of divilish joke. But anybody can see that the Old Scratch never had anything in common with you, even a hand in the christenin'."
"In his britches pockets, and he don't scurcely speak a word for hours at a stretch. And they're up all times of the night, fussin' over account books and writin' letters and I don't know what all. It's plain enough what's comin'. Everybody in town is on to it. Why, I was up to the store t'other day settin' outside on the steps and Ab Bacheldor came along.
"He didn't go with his horse, Captain. He fooled us." "What?" "That's so. Horse was found yisterday evenin' down beyand Peckham's scurcely breathed. He'd run fur, but he didn't have nobody on his back." "I see!" ejaculated the ranchman, smiting one doubled fist upon the other palm. "That Pete has fooled us from the start." "Sure did," admitted Sam.
What's happened? Sing out!" "He's he's all alone there!" panted Mr. Chase. "He won't speak, scurcely only moans. I don't know's he ain't dead!" "Who's dead? Who? Who? Who?" The irate Shadrach seized his steward by the collar and shook him, not too gently. "Who's dead?" he bellowed.
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