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Well, did you say you was waitin' to be introduced? I'll take you up and ask her. Like as not, she'll turn you down. She ain't looked at you once, I notice. I been watching her." "So've I," said Hanson good humoredly, "but you're wrong, son" there was a brief, triumphant flash of his light eyes "she's looked at me twice, took me all in, too. Numbered the hairs of my head and the size of my shoes.
She thought: "He'll find all this a burden. He's had all he wants; and so've I. I wish we were rich." "Look here, darling," said Osborn. "How much'll food cost us? I don't know a great deal about these things, but if it's any standard to take well, my old landlady used to give me rooms and breakfasts and dinners for thirty bob a week. Jolly good breakfasts and dinners they were, too!"
He's taken the case into court already, and the sheriff is here tryin' to find me so as to serve the papers. I've got to skip out, and so've you." "I?" rising to her feet, indignantly. "What have I done to be frightened over?" He laughed, but not pleasantly. "Oh, hell, Christie, can't you understand? Old Waite is after you the same way he is me.
"Pritchard blushed plum color to the short hairs of his seventeen-inch neck. "''Undreds, said Pyecroft. 'So've I. How many of 'em can you remember in your own mind, settin' aside the first an' per'aps the last and one more? "'Few, wonderful few, now I tax myself, said Sergeant Pritchard, relievedly. "'An' how many times might you 'ave been at Aukland? "'One two, he began.
Mr. Strout's ire was kindled when Hiram described the presents his children had received from Quincy. "Thank the Lord I've got money enough to buy my children's presents myself without dependin' on second-hand things that other folks don't want." "So've I," said Hiram, "but what I save that way I puts in the bank, for I'm bound to own the old Pettingill Place some day."
Redhand, he vill begin vid de thomb, et so on till it come to me, and I vill cot hoff mine leetle finger. Each vill devour the finger of de oder, an' so've shall have von dinner vidout committing mordor ha! vat say you?"
The slightest fraction of a second in hesitation. "No." "Was that the straight dope you give Shorty?" "Straighter'n hell. They're beginnin' to talk, but I guess I was jest sort of panicky when I talked with Shorty." "This Tex Calder " "What about him?" This with a trace of suspicion. "He's got a long record." "So've you, Jim." Once more that wolflike grin which had no mirth. "So long, Lee.
I've done forty miles at a stretch plenty of times." "So've I, but not with a bad ankle and a bunged-up side," returned Bud dryly. "How yuh feelin'?" "Fine! I've hardly had a twinge all day. That bandage stuff is great dope for keeping a fellow strapped up comfortable." "Well, if you're up to it, I reckon that would be better than the train," Bud admitted.
Don't you think we ought to be called by our full names and not Dolly and Dotty any more?" "I don't know. Why?" "Oh, 'cause we're too big for baby names. I'm going to stop wearing hair-ribbons." "You are! How ever will you keep your hair back? And you've such a lot of it." "I know. So've you. Why, I'll just braid it, and let the end flutter. But Mother says she won't let me till I'm sixteen.
Neither did he cease smoking. His first remark to the lovely lady somewhat startled me. "Have you got a brass bed in your room?" he asked. The beautiful lady said she had. "So've I," said the young man. "They do you rather well, don't they? And it's only three dollars. How much is that?" "Four times three would be twelve," said the lady. "Twelve shillings."
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