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"Golly! Golly! I knowed it was magic somethin' like that, and not medicine at all!" exclaimed the fellow, nodding his head to himself. "Let me look at your book, to see if you have it correctly written," said Agnes, stepping partially behind the driver.
He's in the bedroom there groanin' somethin' terrible. He told me not to say nothin' to the women folks, but to hail you, and you'd look out for us. Didn't you know he was laid up? Why, he " Brown did not wait to hear more. He strode to the house, with Mr. Stover at his heels. On his way he caught a glimpse of the buggy, the horse dozing between the shafts.
The boy started upon a brisk run, and Jim still sat upon the stone watching him until he disappeared somewhere among the angles of the tumble-down buildings that constituted the establishment. "Well, Jim Fenton," he said to himself, "ye've been spilin' fur somethin' to do fur somebody. I guess ye've got it, and not a very small job neither."
"Somethin' laid a big egg then," said Crockett. "It's jest as well to keep a stone roof over your head when you're under fire of a few dozen cannon. Never take foolish risks, Ned, for the sake of showin' off. That's the advice of an old man." Crockett spoke very earnestly, and Ned remembered his words.
When I thought of what a girl is, an' what it must have took to make one want to really be a man, I felt plumb ashamed o' my sex; but here was another creature in man's clothes standin' an' grinnin' into my face as though he had done somethin' smart. "How do you know?" I sez soft an' steady. "I went in an' examined it was my professional duty.
What offices are my two friends here to get?" "O, we'll make 'em senators, or somethin' of that sort. They shall be cared for in some way or other." I could only bow my thanks to the kind gentleman, but before I could reply, the inspector joined us. "Ah, Ben, you and Charley here," he said, in a careless way. "How does the indignation meetings and the petitions get along?"
They thought they'd croaked me, an' they wasn't botherin' with me. "One of them waved a blanket or a tarp. I couldn't get what it was. Anyway, they waved somethin' an' got the herd started. I heard them talkin' about seein' Soapy go under, right at the start. An' you. Dale said he saw you go down, an' it wasn't no use to look for you. They sure played hell, boss." Sanderson did not answer.
Briefly Helen began to acquaint him with the circumstances of that visit, and before she had finished she made sure Roy was swearing to himself. "He asked you to marry him! Jerusalem!... Thet I'd never have reckoned. The low-down coyote of a greaser!... Wal, Miss Helen, when I met up with Senor Beasley last night he was shore spoilin' from somethin'; now I see what thet was.
"Now when Mis' Pennel's sister asked her what she was going to do with Naomi's clothes, I couldn't help wonderin' when she said she should keep 'em for the child." "She had a sight of things, Naomi did," said Aunt Ruey. "Nothin' was never too much for her. I don't believe that Cap'n Pennel ever went to Bath or Portland without havin' it in his mind to bring Naomi somethin'."
"If I might take a hand," he said, diffidently, "I might contribute somethin' to help you out." Peter regarded him a little impatiently. He had forgotten the concrete, for the moment, in the abstract, and was donning his armor for a battle with Kenny upon the "fundamentals." Hence he was not too well pleased with Yankee's interruption. But Donald Ross gladly welcomed the diversion.
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