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Alcestis came to his senses in ten or fifteen minutes, and seemed as bright as usual, with a kind of added swagger at being the central figure in a dramatic situation. "I wonder you hed n't stove your brains out, when you landed so turrible suddent on that rock at the foot of the bank," said Mr. Wiley to him.
Things like this, besides lots of other things, my grandpa's prayers and other things, had made me think a lot of religion, so as to be ready if I was to be took by lightnin' or drownin' or anything suddent. And some of the boys said that if you was drowned and didn't have nothin' on, you'd be kept out of heaven, and sent to a place of punishment.
Hold your mules, Mack," she called to the grumbling teamster. "I'm going to make a flare." "Better do somethin' mighty suddent, Miss," growled the man. She spurred Molly up to the wagon-seat and there seized one of the blankets. "Got a sharp knife, Pratt?" she asked, shaking out the folds of the blanket. "Yes." "Slit this blanket, then lengthwise. Halve it," urged Frances. "And be quick."
The last time he brought his vessel home from New Orleans he was in that pore to get back to his wife an' childer, he ripped along the Gulf Stream and pretty well ribbed the keelson out of her. Thought, I reckon, that since all the shareholders belonged to his family th' expense wouldn' be grudged. But I guess it made her tender. That's how she came to go down so suddent." "She foundered?"
We halted, with a glad realization that we were back in our own haunts and that Peg Bowen had not caught us. "Oh, wasn't that an awful experience?" gasped Cecily, shuddering. "I wouldn't go through it again I couldn't, not even for Pat." "It come on a fellow so suddent," said Peter shamefacedly. "I think I could a-stood my ground if I'd known she was going to come out.
"I reckon Jim's pretty busy just now," continued the stranger; "what with old Doc West going under so suddent, just ez he'd got things boomin' with that railroad and his manufactory company.
"Ye mauna tak it ill, my lord," said Peter, "gien the laads be ta'en aback wi' the news. It's a some suddent shift o' the win, ye see, my lord." "I wuss yer lordship weel," thereupon said one, and held out his hand. "Lang life to yer lordship," said another. Each spoke a hearty word, and shook hands with him all except Girnel, who held back, looking on, with his right hand in his trouser pocket.
It was mighty mean of me, I suppose, to have tetched you at all, without saying, "Excuse me, miss," and toted you out of the garden and up the steps into your own parlor without asking your leave. But the whole thing tumbled so suddent. And it didn't seem the square thing for me to lite out and leave you lying there on the grass. That's why!
He was left, ye see, sir, a' himlane i' the beleaguert toon, and I fancy the suddent waukin and the discovery that he was there his lee lane, jist pat him beside himsel. Here she told the whole story, as they had gathered it from Francis, mingling it with some elucidatory suggestions of her own, and having ended her narration, went on thus:
Take it for any extra trouble you may have to satisfy me." A pause the clinking of coin. I reckon that would be about fair. 'Tain't every man ez hez your grip. He! he! Ef ye hadn't took me so suddent like he! he! well! how about that ar whiskey?" Steps, silence, coughing, spitting, and throat-clearing from the stranger. Steps again, and the click of glass. Ye know what I mean! Thar now don't, Mr.
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