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Sister's a little bit nervous; couldn't think of puttin' her off by herself. Give us a room with a shake-down, and I'll roll up in some blankets on the floor." The hotel man slapped the eldest brother on the back. "You're the right kind of a brother," he cried heartily; "like to see it. We men kind o' forget, living out in these wilds, how scarey and tender girls are.
"That's so," retorted George, "so I'll give you my idea to do what you can with." "We must go," said Nellie, getting up from her chair. "It must be after one and I'm tired." "It's ten minutes to two," said Ford, having pulled out his watch. "Why don't you stay all night, Nellie," asked Connie. "We can put Ned up, if he doesn't mind a shake-down. Then we can make a night of it.
I had not slept in a bed for two months. A close crib in a transport ship a "shake-down" among the scorpions and spiders of Lobos a single blanket among the sand-hills, where it was not unusual to wake up half-buried by the drift. These were my souvenirs. Fancy the prospect! It certainly invited repose; and yet I was in no humour to sleep. My brain was in a whirl.
"Put him in my bed and give me a shake-down on the floor," said Tembarom. "That'll be all right. He doesn't want me to leave him, anyhow." He turned to the money on the table. "Say," he said to his guest, "there's two thousand five hundred dollars here. We've counted it to make sure. That's quite some money. And it's yours " The stranger looked disturbed and made a nervous gesture.
A dozen or so of women are wailing forth their lamentations in the silent night but a short distance from the khan; I can look out of a small opening in the wall near my shake-down, and see them moving about the house and premises by the flickering glare of torches.
He put Jonathan through his sea-catechism in the same way, and then said we could have supper and a shake-down for the night. "After supper the young lady sat near the kitchen fire sewing, and Jonathan took a chair near her and began a conversation. He said: "I must beg pardon for having ventured to address you as 'my dear, on so short an acquaintance, but I hope you will forgive my boldness.
"Here we are, Molly," exclaimed the lame man, bustling into a snug room in which a fire was blazing, and cheering preparations for tea were going on, "and I've brought a friend to spend the night with us. There's plenty of room on your floor for a shake-down, eh? This is my sister," he added turning to the girl, "Mary Thorogood, but we always call her Molly.
So we made a shake-down for him in the living-room. But he was up and out this morning, before either of us was stirring, coming back to Casa Grande, however, when he saw the smoke at the chimney-top. His thin cheeks were quite pink and he apologetically explained that he'd been trying for an hour and a half to catch his cayuse. Olie had come to his rescue.
And he proceeded to formally charge and warn his prisoner. "Give us a room, Brophy!" he said, "a big wan for th' bunch av us an' lave a shake-down on th' flure for this feller!" Preceded by the landlord the trio departed upstairs, escorting their prisoner.
"Why, then, of coorse you'll have something to ait, poor man, and while you're eatin' it I'll fetch in a good bunch of straw, and make a comfortable shake-down for you." "God mark you to grace, avourneen!" She then furnished him with plenty of oaten bread and mixed milk, and while he was helping himself she brought in a large launch of straw, which she shook out and settled for him.
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