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Updated: June 21, 2025
It's the only decent way of doin' when folks live side by side. But Martin wouldn't listen to our doin' it, even if your aunt would which I know she wouldn't. He's awful set against the Websters." "How silly it seems!" "That's what I tell him," Jane declared. "Of course your aunt's an old woman, an' 'tain't surprisin' she should harbor a grudge against us.
'Yes, she remarked to Gwen, who had strolled into Agatha's bedroom one morning, and found Deb seated on the floor shaping a refractory carpet that would not fit, 'my sister is the stay-at-home, and I bring her the news of the world as I pick it up when I'm out visitin'. It's surprisin' the stories of high and low life that I hear.
"That father o' yours is certainly quite an innocent old party," Shorty answered, consolingly, "and the things he don't know about army life'd make more'n a pamphlet. But he has a way of wakin' up to the situation that is sometimes very surprisin'. I wisht I was able to go about with him, but I think he's fully able to take care o' himself around in camp.
"An' it ain't surprisin'," said the liveryman, with indignation tempered by the easy philosophy of hot climates. "Shut up in jail all day, an' half the night, never breathin' the pyo' air, or baskin' in God's bright sunshine; with no books to read an' no chance to learn, who can blame the po'r things if they have a little joy in the only way they know?" "Who owns the mill?" asked the colonel.
"What's got into you, anyway?" she demanded, with a lame attempt at imperativeness. "Jes' figures. I've ben doin' a lot of figurin' this week, an' it's most surprisin'." "I don't see what that's got to do with it," she sniffled. Johnny smiled patiently, and his mother was aware of a distinct shock at the persistent absence of his peevishness and irritability. "I'll show you," he said.
They got a surprisin' plenty o' arms, too, for reservation Injuns. Know that, Sheriff?" The Sheriff nodded slowly. "I wish Haines would get in," he said. "I'd like to have a talk with him before we start. But it's getting late." The dull thudding of tired horses hoofs from the other side of the hill below town came, to him as an answer.
"Wal, now, I jest am surprised to see you, Jim Sherry," he said with the "Down East" drawl he affected he called himself an American "why, we haven't seen one another fer quite a stretch. She touched it coldly with ill-disguised aversion. "Why, you too, Mrs. Krause! Wal, this is surprisin'. And where are you goin'? Where's the boss?" "Mr.
There's big spruce and high mesas and grass to your pony's knees and water 'most anywhere you look for it. I ain't much on huntin'. But there's plenty deer and wild turkey up that way, and some bear. And with a bent pin and a piece of string a fella can catch all the trout he wants. Arizona is a mighty surprisin' State, in spots.
"Our ship was a first class freighter and passage vessel, and on the home voyage we had plenty of ladies. 'Twas surprisin' to see how natural like the boy took to 'em, and how they all liked him. He was constantly learning something, and soon got so he could parley vou like a real frog-eating Frenchman.
"'Yes, says I, 'and I heard him hint likewise that he was goin' to make you sorry. I guess he's done it. "Well, sir! the brimstone names that Fatty called that man was somethin' surprisin' to hear. When he'd used up all he had in stock he invented new ones. When the praise service was over he turns to me and says: 'But what are we goin' to do? "'Do? says I. 'That's easy. We're goin' to drift.
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