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He's arm in arm with a shrimpy, Frenchy lookin' party wearin' a silk lid and a frock coat. They pushes unsteady through Eggy's illustrious ancestor bunch and comes to parade rest in the center of the stage. "Winthrop!" gasps Mr. Hubbard. "Eh?" gasps the young gent, starin' round uncertain until he locates J. Q. Then he makes a stab at straightenin' up.
He looked at me hard. 'Did anyone tell you where I was goin'? says he, sharp. 'Why, no, says I. 'Why should they? He didn't answer, just kept on starin' at me. Then he laughed and walked away. I didn't know where he was goin' then, but I know now, darn him! And the next day he went for good." He stopped speaking. Mary waited a moment and then asked, quietly: "Went where, Isaiah?
"Wait," says Woodie, wavin' him one side. Now was them any proper motions for a grocery clerk to be goin' through? I leave it to you. Vee is watchin' with her nose wrinkled up, like she always does when anything stumps her; and me, I was just starin' open-faced and foolish. I couldn't get the connection at all. But Aunty ain't one to stand gaspin' over a mystery while her tongue's still workin'.
So, putting his head through the hole, he called down to the colonel: 'Hillo, neighbour! says he. The colonel looked up, and grew as white as a sheet, when he seen he was found out, and the red eyes starin' down at him through the hole. 'Musha, bad luck to your impudence! says Owld Nick: 'it is sthrivin' to chate me you are, says he, 'you villain!
You can suppress the green-goods and gold-brick games, but folks will still go to shoveling sand if you mention pirates to 'em. What I want is to see 'em at it once." The harder you jolt Old Hickory, though, the steadier he gets. "Huh!" says he, smilin' sarcastic. "An ambition such as yours ought to be gratified. Take a good look at us, Megrue." "Wha-a-a-at!" gasps Barney, starin' at him.
"Let you what?" demands J. Q., starin' puzzled. "Introduce a few of them to you properly," says Eggy; "only four or five. Come, a handful of simple-minded peasants can't hurt you. They're poor, and ignorant, and not especially clean, I'll admit; but I'll keep them at a proper distance. You see, I want to show you something about them.
Puffington's hounds are not the sort of animals to kill foxes: nasty, skirtin', flashy, jealous divils; always starin' about for holloas and assistance. I'll be d d if I'd give eighteenpence for the 'ole lot on 'em. A loud guffaw from the Flat Hat men greeted this wholesale condemnation. Hats off and politeness was then the order of the day.
He joukit back when our een met, but I saw him weel; ay, it's a queer thing to say, but he had the face o' a man 'at had come straucht frae hell." "I stood starin' at the window," Angus continued, "after he'd gone, an' Robbie cried oot to ken what was the maiter wi' me. Ay, that brocht me back to mysel, an' I hurried oot to look for Jamie, but he wasna to be seen. That face gae me a turn."
Possible! says he, how's that? Why, says I, I guess you'll return rather lighter than you came and that's more nor I can say, any how, and then I gave him a wink and a jupe of the head, as much as to say, "do you take?" and rode on and left him starin and scratchin his head like a feller who's lost his road.
"He's reachin' out his hand for Black Bart. His fingers is on those of the girl. They's both starin'." "Ay, ay!" she said. "An' what now?" But Sam closed the door and set his back to it, facing his wife. "I reckon the rest of it's jest like the endin' of a book, ma," he said. "Men is all fools!" whispered Mrs. Daniels, but there were tears in her eyes.
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