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Dabb had told his men that he was expecting a nephew "of his missus's," and that "he was took on as a kind of charity like." Mr. Dabb now appeared. "Here you are all right. Sharp's the word that's my motter. Keep on your coat and hat you'll want 'em, I can tell you. This isn't a place for coddlin', is it, Bill?" Bill smiled.
I must go down again, for I can't awhile to stay. There's so many things to see to; an' Miss Assher's in hysterics constant, an' her maid's ill i' bed a poor creachy thing an' Mrs. Sharp's wanted every minute. But I'll send Martha up, an' do you get ready to go to bed, there's a dear child, an' take care o' yourself.
Idly I picked up the cheque-book and absently fingered the leaves then my eye caught a counterfoil where I had chanced to open it. It was not in Miss Sharp's handwriting, although this was the house cheque-book which Burton usually keeps, but in my own and there was written, just casually as I scribble in my private account.
He commenced shooting at the tiny mark, correcting his aim by the dust thrown up when the bullets landed. The old single-shot Sharp's, either fifty caliber or the forty-four sharp-shooter Creedmore pattern fitted with special sights, was the favorite gun of the buffalo-hunters. Scout Dixon kept elevating his rear sight, and pumping away.
In about half-an-hour after they had refreshed themselves Uncle Dabb looked in. "Better be off before it gets dark. Eight o'clock sharp to-morrow morning, Andrew. Sharp's the word. Breakfast before you come. My boy will show you your quarters. Needn't take them unless you like them." A cab was called, their luggage was put upon it, and they were landed in Nelson Square.
"'As absolootely right as the sights of a Sharp's rifle, says Peets; 'an', while I'm not yere to render you giddy with encomiums, Cherokee, you shore ought to expand them sentiments into a lecture. "'Jest to 'llustrate my meanin', resooms Cherokee, 'let me onbosom myse'f as to what happens a party back in Posey County, Injeanny.
I disapprove greatly of girls taking boys' parts. The object of the play itself is merely to amuse. There is nothing worth while or educational about it." Again silence, and the girls only glanced fearfully at each other. "I have a proposition to make to you," said the stern teacher. "It is not too late to change your plans. I have Mr. Sharp's permission to make the suggestion.
The nurses left the ward about midnight, and did not return for many hours. When they came back Mary turned very pale, and cowered down at the foot of Mrs. Chester's bed. Her mother she knew the signs, oh, how well her mother had been drinking. Judge Sharp's benevolence had provided the means of a carouse for those two wretched women.
Come, come," she stamped, "sharp's the word." "But but but " Miss Greeby lifted him off the sofa by the scruff of the neck. "Do you want to be killed?" she said between her teeth, "there's no time to be lost. Chaldea tells me that Lambert threatens to have me arrested."
Her feelings we will not attempt to describe, when he related in his own artless and pathetic manner, all and more than the reader knows in regard to his treatment at Mr. Sharp's, too sadly confirmed by the change im the whole expression of his face. While her mind was yet excited with mingled feelings of joy and pain, Eugenia came in from her regular visit to her father.
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