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They were of an equal height, tall young men, alert, nervously braced from head to foot, with the differences between soldier and civilian marked by the succintly military bearing of the elder brother, whose movements were precise and prompt, and whose frame was leopardlike in indolence. Beside him Patrick seemed cubbish, though beside another he would not have appeared so.
I then thought it quite necessary to let them know who I was. Accordingly I took an opportunity of succintly telling them whence I came, where I was going, who my relations were, and what my expectations. I let them understand that I had money in my purse, and gave broad hints that I was neither fool nor coward.
They were of an equal height, tall young men, alert, nervously braced from head to foot, with the differences between soldier and civilian marked by the succintly military bearing of the elder brother, whose movements were precise and prompt, and whose frame was leopardlike in indolence. Beside him Patrick seemed cubbish, though beside another he would not have appeared so.
"A likely lad, that," commented McKenty, succintly, when he heard it. "He'll do better than his father in one way, anyhow. He'll probably make more money." McKenty had seen old General MacDonald just once in his life, and liked him. "I should like to know what the General would think of that if he knew," commented Addison, who admired the old editor greatly.
It was Allison himself who first called attention to an unsawed log which was being discarded. "That looks like too good a stick to be wasted, doesn't it, McLean?" he asked. Before McLean could answer the boy spat gravely into a pile of sawdust, his piping voice rising above the shrill scream of the saws. "She's holler," he stated succintly. "Dry rotten above the stub!"
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