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"You see it would be rough to take him from his mother while he is so young. It's not as if he was no relation." "Of course not. What have you been doing with Marky these holidays?" "Oh, he was seedy sore throat. I fancy he was shamming a bit to get a week extra. You see, he's spoons on my sister Daisy." "I fancy I've heard that before," observed Felgate.
Next he set his foot on the trap and, opening it, took hold of the fox by the fore-legs to carry it off. The cat and the owl he stuffed away into a great pocket in his coat. "Jemima! don't you wholly stink," he said, then gave a most awful yell. The fox wasn't quite dead after all, it was only shamming dead. At any rate it got Giles' hand in its mouth and made its teeth meet through the flesh.
Not a muscle twitched amongst them, not even the powerful muscles of Gaspar Ruiz, who, deluged with the blood of his neighbours and shamming death, strove to appear more lifeless than the others. He was lying face down. The sergeant recognised him by his stature, and being himself a very small man, looked with envy and contempt at the prostration of so much strength.
More than once, with a reckless defiance utterly foreign to her preconceived plans, she was upon the point of hurling the bubbling contents of her glass into the flushed faces about her and telling these men how completely she was shamming, but she managed to resist the temptation.
He gave them to me for a quarter. He said I should have a tonic, but I haven't had it. I was too ill to move all day yesterday. I am better to-day, but still I daren't go out. I have only eighty-five cents left. I must manage to get out and get some work to-morrow, or I shall go mad. I had a scene with that horrible creature yesterday. It was the second week she thought I was shamming, I know.
Sanderson, fully alive to the danger of haste, rode slowly toward the fallen man. He was taking no chances, for Dale might be shamming in an effort to shoot Sanderson as he came forward. But Dale was not shamming. Dismounting and drawing his pistol, Sanderson went forward.
The shamming of death is exactly what enables the huntress to succeed in her dangerous operation. They say, O guileless Epeirae, that the struggle for life has taught you to adopt this inert attitude for purposes of defence. Well, the struggle for life was a very bad counsellor.
"Oh, hang my eyes!" replied he hastily, as if he did not like the subject mentioned; and I don't wonder at this now, when I recollect how very funny they looked, all green and yellow as if he had a pair of goggle-eyed spectacles on. "Why can't you turn out? You were well enough when you called me four hours ago shamming Abraham, I suppose, eh?" I was too weak, though, to be indignant.
'No, no, you don't know Dudley: if he were angry, he'd say nothing that's funny; no, he's not vexed, only shamming vexed. The scenery through which we passed was very pretty. The road brought us through a narrow and wooded glen. Such studies of ivied rocks and twisted roots! A little stream tinkled lonely through the hollow. Poor Milly! In her odd way she made herself companionable.
We understood that we were the victims of our own shamming, and we grew to be better citizens for it. The police force became an army of heroes for a season. All the good in it came out; and there is a lot of it in the worst of times. Roosevelt had the true philosopher's stone that turns dross to gold, in his own sturdy faith in his fellow-man. Men became good because he thought them so.
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