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But the other children, who had dressed, sat listlessly in their seats, looking at her with irresponsive eyes, set deep back into tired, lifeless, weazened faces. "I'd ruther a rabbit 'ud wash his face than mine," drawled Bull Run. Mrs. Watts came in and jerked the chair from under him and he sat down sprawling. Then he lazily arose and deliberately spat, between his teeth, into the fireplace.
But may I suggest that their rarity will scarcely prove worth the cost when your answer comes to Lord Wellington's ears." He glared at me for a moment, during which no doubt he weighed the temptation of shooting me against the probable risk. Then his features relaxed into a grin, and withdrawing the chewed cigarette from his teeth he spat very deliberately on the ground.
I reckon the Jedge told him that wus the best way." There was a moment of silence, the first man evidently turning the situation over in his mind. The sheriff bent across the rail, and spat into the darkness below. "The joke of it all is," he continued, with a short laugh, as he straightened up, "this didn't exactly work out 'cordin' ter schedule.
"Come, my boy," old Gaspard said, "we have no women now, so we must get our own dinner ready. Go and peel the potatoes." And they both sat down on wooden stools and began to prepare the soup. The next morning seemed very long to Kunsi. Old Hari smoked and spat on the hearth, while the young man looked out of the window at the snow-covered mountain opposite the house.
He had expected criticism, reproach, even abuse; but that any man should brand him treasonous! . . . He spat into the gutter, and a sound that was almost a snarl escaped from his throat. He stopped, irresolute, and the wound in his head burst into a violent pain. He leaned against a post until the agony had passed, and once more he made for Broadway.
"'Why then where's the dagger o' the woman the silver goddess where? And how came they buried? "'Aye, there's the rub, Roger! "'Why, says Tressady, 'look'ee, Ben, 'tis in my mind we're not alone on this island "'And who should be here, Roger? "'The man that slew our Captain! Here there was silence awhile, then the man Ben arose and spat. "'Faugh! says he.
The man laughed a little hoarsely, spat, and again went on. "The palace they call the Little Detached Palace will soon be picked clean clean as any dog's bone, with the Frenchies only fifteen feet off, and you'll get nothing more from there. Sometimes the Frenchies suspect and want to march right in on us, but our corporals are waiting, and are ready for them, and our bayonets stop them short.
On all sides others were pressing in the same direction black shadows against the night; the rain spat noisily on the camp fires as we passed them; and from behind us came up others.
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