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I fancy we had better be getting along and collecting our baggage." And he jumped up and began shoving the luggage into his pockets, or strapping it on to his back. As he thrust a tin of canned meat, anyhow, into his bursting side pocket, he said casually: "I only meant that you and I are the most prominent people in the English papers."
She gave a sigh of relief, and for the first time raised her eyes with a sad, reproachful look toward her tormentors. Just then a strapping, wide-shouldered huckster, pushed her heavy body between the queen and the door, and barring the entrance with her great brown arms, cried out vociferously: "You to not pass until you promise!
So them 'orders' is all I hev to give: the Padre, being a bit nervous, may hev some of his own; but thar ain't nothing to hurt four strapping younkers round Killykinick except right here. And now, I reckon, it's about time for dinner. I'm ready for some of Neb's clam-chowder, I know; and I guess you are, too."
He wished me to promise that I would not. "No!" replied I; "I shall do no such thing." "Oh, der Teufel; der Teufel!" exclaimed the old man; "do you say that to me? Have I not had a horrible strapping on your account?" "I am sorry, dear Schiller, if you have suffered on my account. But I cannot promise what I do not mean to perform." "And why not perform it?"
He kept his temper, too, in all the fuss and ado of departure: the running to and fro after missing articles, the sitting on the lids of overflowing trunks, the strapping of carpet-bags, affixing of labels. Their luggage hoisted into a spring-cart, they themselves took their seats in the buggy and were driven to the railway station; and to himself Mahony murmured an all's-well that-ends-well.
Strapping his saddle and bridle on his back he took his bacon and his salt bag in one hand and his bag of meal in the other. Thus heavily burdened he set out on foot down the mountain. "At any rate my load will grow lighter," he reflected, "every time I eat, and I'll sell the saddle and bridle at the first opportunity. I'll make the Ohio River in spite of all."
'There can be nothing more beautiful, said Claude, 'than the two first groups, the fiddler, and then the bride with the old peasant. 'And the strapping peasant girl, too, added Mahoudeau; the one who is turning round and beckoning! I had a great mind to take her for the model of a statue.
Presently he heard a female voice inquire, "Is Miss Lucy at home?" He looked, and there was a tall, strapping woman in conference with Henry. She had on a large bonnet with flaunting ribbons, and a bushy cap infuriated by red flowers. Henry's eye fell upon these embellishments: "Not at home," chanted he, sonorously. "Eh, dear," said the woman sadly, "I have come a long way to see her."
Early he had pitched his tent on the very spot for a ranchman's homestead, early he had fallen in love with an army girl, who married the strapping frontiersman and was now the proud mistress of the new and promising stock farm nestling in the valley of the Laramie, a devoted wife and mother.
Hanshaw's sister, a Mrs. Haldean, the widow of a wealthy Manchester cotton factor; the second was her niece by marriage, Miss Lucy Haldean, a very handsome and charming girl of twenty-three; while the third was no less a person than Master Fred, the only child of Mrs. Haldean, and a strapping boy of six.
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