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It took me to Meadville, 'n' I had to pay the 'xtra fare 'n' wait two hours to get another back here, 'n' I ain't really half through shakin' yet." Susan stopped, took out her handkerchief and carefully passed it over her brow as one who strives to brush away tormenting visions. Mrs. Lathrop sat mute and motionless, completely overwhelmed by the recital of her friend's tragic story.
But the languages took so much time. Then I had to skip several terms and work to help pay my expenses. I worked during vacations too, at anything. Now I'm waiting for a field. They send you out when there's a vacancy." "How about Nelson?" says I. "He's goin' to be a missionary too?" "He doesn't want me to go," says Ruby, shakin' her head. "That is why he came on.
Her nerves get the upper hand of her, and she turns pale and shivers all over, and then she looks as if she would go into the spasms." "But," I suggested, "don't you think that is caused by acute indigestion?" "No, ma'am. You see I know what it is, havin' had it so bad myself. The nerves of her stomach all draw up, and cause the shakin' and tremblin'."
"Yo see, it goes agen mother to be shakin hands wi' yan that's livin wi' Papists and Misther Helbeck by the bargain. So wheniver mother talks aboot Amorites or Jesubites, or any o' thattens, she nobbut means Papist Romanists as our minister coes 'em. He's every bit as bad as her. He would as lief shake hands wi' Mr. Helbeck as wi' the owd 'un!" "I'll uphowd ye Mr.
"But Chiquito never went back on me yet. These fellows may be overplayin' their hand, don't you reckon?" "Not a chanct. That tumblebug Miller is one fishy proposition, and his sidekick Doble say, he's the kind of bird that shoots you in the stomach while he's shakin' hands with you. They're about as warm-hearted as a loan shark when he's turnin' on the screws and about as impulsive.
The girl met the menace of his words with soft, fullthroated laughter. "Why, yo' hand's shakin' now, Mr. Carrington!" "You know me?" "Yes, I seen you once at Boggs'." She made an impatient movement. "You can't do nothing against them fo' men unless I help you. Miss Malroy's to go down river to-night; they're only waiting fo' a pilot you-all's got to act quick!" Carrington hesitated.
They'd watch the two horses workin', and they see Billy all cross and skittish, holdin' back and shakin' his head and tryin' to kick, never takin' no notice o' them nor anything.
I can stand anything now." The added squeeze of her arm upon his shoulders set Buck's teeth gritting. Suddenly he reined Cæsar in. "I must know 'bout that shakin'," he said. For a second the horse stood with heaving body. It was only a moment, but in that moment he spread out his feet as though to save himself from falling. Then in answer to the spur he sped on.
"An' how'll ye do that?" sez I. "You've shquibbed off your revolver like a child wid a cracker; you can make no play wid that fine large sword av yours; an' your hand's shakin' like an asp on a leaf. Lie still an' grow," sez I. "Get back to your comp'ny," sez he; "you're insolint!" "All in good time," sez I, "but I'll have a dhrink first."
Says I, 'Wud ye insult the Pope be shakin' a milliner's bill in his face as ye go in the dure? She never answered me, but walked in an' presented her bill to a Mounsinnyory " "What's that?" Arthur asked. "I was never in Rome." "Somethin' like the man that takes the tickets at the theayter, ou'y he's a priest, an' looks like a bishop, but he cuts more capers than ten bishops in wan.
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