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Of course, I don't know anything about it myself; it's just what I've heard. I hope you don't mind me speakin' of it." "Not in the least. Well, what about it, Mr. Glass?" "It was a turrible risky thing to do to blow up a dam," said Glass. "It'd be against the law, wouldn't it? Of course, I don't say it was. It might not be. I don't claim to know, and likely whoever done it had reasons.
Sullivan; he's that important to the chief, is Dan, they can't get on without him to-day at all." "Then bad luck, I say, to the chief! Look at the grand supper I'm after fixin' for Dan!" "Oh, Mary Mrs. Sullivan, don't be speakin' disrespectful' of the chief, an' him thinkin' so highly of Dan!" Mary's blue eyes flashed. "An' why wouldn't he!
"Gett," he said placidly, "I think that's a lie metaphorical speakin'. Ain't mad, are you?" Gettysburg made no response. He merely shoveled. One of the sluices, weakened by a leak that had undermined its pinning, fell from place, at the farther end of the line. Old Dave went down to repair it. Napoleon took advantage of his absence to come to Beth, with an air of imparting something confidential.
Uncle Coffin gave me an irresistible but a loving and true, not a malicious, wink. "Speakin' o' women folks, Leezur," said he, "is there any news from Lot's wife?" Captain Leezur cleared the mellow symphonies of those organs through which he intoned his speech; and was about to reply, fully and sweetly, when Captain Pharo made his appearance at the door.
Ye see, we all went to the missionary meetin' in the church, an' Mr. Dale told us about that furren land. Somehow I didn't take to the man, an' I liked 'im less as he went on. All the time he was speakin' I noted how eagerly Parson John listened. Often his buzum heaved-like, an' I thought I heerd 'im sigh. But when the speaker 'gun to compare Africy with Canada and Glendow, I got mad.
"Speakin' of lyin', an' bein' we're on the subject, it ain't too much to state that thar's plenty o'casions when lyin' is not only proper but good. It's the thing to do.
Set there starin' at Billings with those darned cool eyes o' his that look's if they'd never blink 'f a cannon went off under his very nose waited till Billings got good and done, 'n' then said with that high 'n' mighty air of his, f'r all the world's if he was speakin' to some poor, half-witted Swede: 'Two hundred dollars doesn't mean as much to me as you think, Mr.
Tom Montjoy is de onliest one which kin slip de bit in dat mule's mouf, an' de way he do it is to go into de nex' stall an' keep speakin' soothin' words to him, an' put de bridle on him f'um behinehand of his shoulder lak. But when Tom Montjoy ain't wukkin', de Frank mule he ain't wukkin' neither any.
"You ain't forgettin' to give him that piece of chain." "Why," she said, drawing the glittering links from a pocket of her skirt; "I have it here. You may return it to him." "Me an' Haydon ain't on speakin' terms," he smiled. "He wouldn't appreciate it none, if I give it to him." "Why " she began, only to pause and look at him with a sudden comprehension in her eyes.
"Wall, if you did, I warn't speakin' to you," said Jacob Dennison, surlily. "Well, when you speak in school, address yourself to me," said Keith. He caught Euphronia Tripper's eyes on him. "I mought an' I moughtn't," said Jacob, insolently. "I propose to see that you do." Jacob's reply was something between a grunt and a sneer, and the school rustled with a sound very much like applause.
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