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Updated: May 3, 2025
"O-ho!" muttered the snake-in-the-grass, very softly; and there was something so compound and significant in the tone of that second "O-ho!" soft though it was, that it not only baffles description, but really, you know, it would be an insult to your understanding, good reader, to say more in the way of explanation!
Gasping and sobbing in a passion of tears, she beat the coverlet and pillows with her clenched fists. "Sneak!" she babbled aloud. "Sneak! Snake-in-the-grass! Cat!" Bibbs saw that she did not know he was there, and he went softly toward the door, hoping to get away before she became aware of him; but some sound of his movement reached her, and she sat up, startled, facing him. "Bibbs!
"I suppose it's the neuralgia again," she suggested with quiet heat. The color stole into Miss Royle's pale cheeks. She coughed. "It is a little worse than usual this afternoon," she admitted. "I thought so," said Jane. "It's always worse on bargain-days." "How dare you!" "You ask me that, do you? you old snake-in-the-grass!" Now Jane grew pallid with anger.
Snake-in-the-grass!" he was working himself up into false passion; "it is you, ungrateful boy, who are sinking the serpent's tooth in the hand that would have helped you. I tell you that I intended to make you foreman, though Sage-brush Charley is an older and better man. It was for Dick's sake I would have done it." "No!" Bud burst forth; "for your guilty conscience's sake.
"I am the captain, and my friend the engineer, of that craft." The big sailor's reply was an explosive yell. "Don't let that snake-in-the-grass Frenchman get away, mates," begged Jack, earnestly. "Jerry, I reckon you can hold the only gang way that opens in on this place, can't ye?" demanded the big sailor, turning to his sturdy looking shipmate. "I reckon, Hickey," said the other.
He soon reached the neighbourhood of the robbers' fire, and, when close enough to render extreme caution necessary, threw himself flat on the ground and advanced a la "snake-in-the-grass."
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