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The yellow head bent forward in assent. "And how they're stronger'n a whole bunch of men?" "Yes," breathed Bobbie; "but the chair the men've got that, an' mebbe the angels'll be busy when they're puttin' the cobbler in it." This idea made him shriek out louder than before: "They'll kill Lafe! Oh, Jinnie, they will!" "They can't!" denied Jinnie, rigidly. "They can't! Listen, Bobbie."
"I guess so, for the present." "Well, I wouldn't leave him too long. He's stronger'n Samson and the Philippines rolled together, and he's humped up his back so much on the way acrost that he's started most of the nails in them slats over top of him. I tell ye what you do: Give him a bone or a chunk of tough meat to chaw on. Then he'll rest easy for a spell. Goodbye.
"You're stronger'n I am, Mike," said Jim. "Maybe he'd turn on me, and I can't fight him as well as you." "That's so," said Mike, who had rather a high idea of his own prowess, and felt pleased with the compliment. "I'm a match for him." "Of course you be," said Jim, artfully, "and he knows it." "Of course he does," said Mike, boastfully. "I can lick him with one hand."
Both were certain that somewhere up and beyond were the hands stronger'n Waldstricker's, but they'd hoped those pitying hands would have lifted them up before this. Still they clung to their faith and all the long ride from Ithaca had bolstered each other up with wan smiles and comforting promises. The business in the warden's office was simple and quickly dispatched.
If there's anything I like it's a good cigar, he! he! Next to a purty girl, ha! ha! But this last box is stronger'n pison. That sort of a cigar floors me. Can't go entirely without, you know, so I smoke half a one, and by that time I get so confounded mad I throw it away. Ha! ha! Smoke, Mr. Charlton? No! No small vices, I s'pose. Couldn't live without my cigar.
Just tell the truth and shame the devil! Them lawyers is a tricky pack, and they know how to mix a fellow up, till he don't know crystal from frit. But don't you worrit! The truth's stronger'n the whole pack of 'em, and that's what I'm a-restin' on. You tell the truth as you b'lieve it, whether it's for me or agin' me, child, and it's all I'll ask o' you."
Surely, the hands stronger'n Waldstricker's had lost none of their protective power! So absorbed did he become, he hardly noticed when the girl came back, but he heard her say to Elsie, "Here, cat! I hate you so, I could strangle you with it!"
She saw through the mist over her eyes, Lysander Letts leering menacingly at her. She sat very still and held her breath. If she let it go, her heart would break. "Stronger'n God's," were the only words she remembered. Then, if that were true, and Frederick had said it then then, nothing nobody could take from her this brimming cup of disgrace and destruction.
An' you know there's bound t' be loads of Eskimos, 'cause they'd rather see a dog race than eat a seal-blubber banquet." "That's so; but Spot is good friends with all the natives 'round town, an' he's stronger'n Queen, an' wouldn't leave the trail for anything but snowbirds or rabbits, so he'd hold 'er down.
"But I am telling you the truth!" he exclaimed miserably. His voice broke. "I can't save you, Tessibel. Waldstricker can do anything he wants. Why why Waldstricker's hands're stronger are stronger than God's." She heard his words as if in a dream. "Stronger'n God's," echoed through the recesses of her brain in fearful mockery. She was lost, engulfed in the hatred of Waldstricker.
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