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"Don't forget to call the next time you come this way," she said cheerfully, waving her knitting at us. "I hope you'll get safe to Bothwell. If I was ten years younger I vow I'd pack a grip and go along with you. I like your spunk. Most of the girls nowadays is such timid, skeery critters. When I was a girl I wasn't afraid of nothing or nobody."
The man just plays up. Nice manly proceeding, what!" cried Argyle. "But why can't man accept it as the natural order of things?" said Lilly. "Science makes it the natural order." "All my to science," said Argyle. "No man with one drop of real spunk in him can stand it long." "Yes! Yes! Yes!" cried the Italian. "Most men want it so.
"Speak out, you old fool," replied his master, "and let me know the best and the worst at once." "Ou, the best and the warst is, just that the tower is standing hail and feir, as safe and as empty as when ye left it." "Indeed! and the fire?" said Ravenswood. "Not a gleed of fire, then, except the bit kindling peat, and maybe a spunk in Mysie's cutty-pipe," replied Caleb.
Or else let him pick one out for himself," he says. Henry, he wasn't saying nothing. I thought he had fainted. But he hadn't. I seen him licking his lips. I bet Henry's mouth was all dry inside. Jane, she took the box and she went round in front of Henry and she looked at him hard. She looked at him like she was thinking: "Fur God's sake, spunk up some, and take one if it DOES kill you!"
By the time the end of the day overtook me, my strength was grown weak and my spunk failed me; so, desiring to eat and drink, I went forth walking, troubled in spirit and with a heart ill at ease.
His talents was achin' ter git action on him; anythin' like that got up his spunk. Says I: "'Maybe Ranch kin help. We'll tell him ter-morrer after guard mount. It'll take his mind off Daggett. "'No, yer don't, says Buck. 'Don't yer dare tell him. He's nervous as a cat over the pup as it is, an' this spook business is awful skeery; I'm feelin' woozy over it meself.
"Yes," said I, for I felt that he might have me awkwardly trapped if he went on, "that is one of the reasons why I did not come home. I knew that Charlotte had made up her mind never to marry me " "And ye took it like that?" he cried; "man, ye havena muckle spunk!"
Now then, starbowlines, show your spunk! Away they go, the mate dashing ahead; while the furious seas shoot up vindictive tongues at them and nearly wash two men clean off the rigging on a level with the lower topsails.
Got all the spunk in the world, and you could not get him to squeal or double cross in a million years." To all of which, and with amplification, Ed Morrell agreed.
"I hadn't got more'n half a mile afore I see a feller rite ahead of me, a-leadin' that identical bar, thet bed been chasin' me all day. "I never was so took down in my life boys, I wouldn't a bin s'prised at anything, arter thet. I mustered up spunk enuff ter speak to the feller, and he told me 'twas a tame bar, thet belonged ter him, thet hed got loose thet day, and he'd bin up a-findin' him.
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