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The man had sallow skin; the look of a consumptive. He sat in a chair beside Crane's desk and dropped the ash from his cigar on Crane's wall-to-wall carpeting. Crane scowled, but let it pass. "All right. Dorfman, what have you got to show for the money I've paid you?" Dorfman, an old hand at confidential snooping, refused to quail before the much-publicized senatorial scowl.
This is private property, and we don't like trespassers. Get a move on get out!" "Are we doing any harm?" asked the agent. "I didn't say you were. This is our land, and we don't like strangers snooping around. That's all." "Particularly when you are going to land some goods." "What do you mean?" gasped the man. "I guess you know well enough," was Mr. Whitford's reply.
"That was about as narrow a squeak as I ever had, and I've been in some pretty tight places." "What's it all about?" asked John Smith, as he rose and began brushing the dirt from his hair. "That's what I want to know," put in Jack. "Snooping sand fleas! But I feel as if I had been digging a tunnel!" cried Nat. "Mighty lucky you didn't get blown down into one, or an oil hole," said Mr. Post.
"Maybe if some of the girls in this store didn't have time to nose so much, they'd know why I can make them all look like they was caught out in the rain and not pressed the next morning. While they're snooping in what don't concern them I'm snipping. Snipping over my last year's black-and-white-checked jacket into this year's cutaway.
"Will Bransford told me he wrote such a letter; he showed me a letter from his dad which told how he had dropped Will's letter and how Dale had picked it up. Dale thought old Bransford hadn't seen him pick up the letter but Bransford did see him. And last night I was snooping around over at the Bar D and I overheard Dale and Silverthorn cooking up this deal." Sanderson grinned with relief.
I tried, at least." "Is that the way you usually spend your Sundays?" "Well, I I like snooping about." "M-m," mused Clarence. Then, "How's business, Fanny?" "Business?" You could almost feel her mind jerk back. "Oh, let's not talk about business on Sunday." "I thought so," said Clarence, enigmatically. "Now listen to me, Fanny." "I'll listen," interrupted she, "if you'll talk about yourself.
Though Antonia loved her father more than she did anyone else, she stood in awe of her elder brother. After I watched Antonia and her mother go over the hill on their miserable horse, carrying our iron pot with them, I turned to grandmother, who had taken up her darning, and said I hoped that snooping old woman wouldn't come to see us any more.
Dog-gone it all, my shoulder!" cried Beardsley, placing the instep of his left foot behind his right knee and hopping about as if it were the lower portion of his anatomy that had been injured instead of the upper. "She's got a steam ingine aboard of her, and them oars of her'n was only meant for snooping up and down the coast quiet and still' so't nobody couldn't hear 'em.
Simply that we're buying our products at cost of the millers and selling at the market price sometimes at a loss, sometimes at a profit; and what if we do handle all the grain and grain products in the United States? They can't show that we are hurting anything. I tell you there's getting to be too much snooping now in the state and federal governments.
"They'll likely find out the trick I played on 'em, and come snooping around here before long. Suppose we slip out and go down by the creek where we can talk without being interrupted." Jessup agreed readily and followed Buck into the barn and out through the back door, where they sought a secluded spot down by the stream, well shielded by bushes.
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