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Updated: June 21, 2025
Whenever things get really excitin', the engine's apt to quit work and take a rest. 'The whole make should be publicly burned, I said, with gloomy recollections. 'I wouldn't go so far, sir. The old Gladas has surprisin' merits. On her day there's nothing like her for pace and climbing-power, and she steers as sweet as a racin' cutter. The trouble about her is she's too complicated.
It ain't very surprisin' that he backs and fills some before that mind's made up. See what it might mean to him: it might mean the loss of his prospects here and his place in the bank and, more'n everything else, losin' Maud. It's some decision to make. If I had to make it I Well, I don't know." She put her hand to her eyes. "The POOR boy," she said, under her breath.
You missed some important ones, however, which makes it all the more surprisin' that you came back so quickly. We'll play that same game another time. It's good for us both. And now, I guess we'll just wash up an' make the camp clean for the night before goin' out in the canoe ter catch a fish or two, if it's not too late."
"Can it be that Thayendanega's gang has deserted General St. Leger?" I asked, in a whisper. "The sergeant will have it that they are done with the siege, in which case it wouldn't be surprisin' if they had sneaked away." "There's no such good news as that," Jacob said, with a laugh; "but I'm puzzled to make out why they're so quiet."
I had the middle watch last night, and, as you know or perhaps you don't know it was very overcast and dark all through the watch, so it's not very surprisin' that I saw nothing of the land, even if it was in sight which I doubt, seein' that it's low and Cap'n Williams, who ought to have known that we was drawin' in close upon the coast, never gave me any warning of the ship's position, or said anything about keepin' an extra good look-out, or anything of that sort.
It's surprisin' the good sech little things do folks sometime;" and Silas paused as if he felt again the comfort of that moment when he and his enemy forgot their feud, and helped one another like brothers. "Tell about Major," cried the boys, impatient for the catastrophe. "I poured the water over his poor pantin' tongue, and ef ever a dumb critter looked grateful, he did then.
"Kiddie," he said now, as they sat at tea, "thar's a many things in you, I notice, as makes you a whole lot different from what you was in th' old days, 'fore you made the surprisin' discovery that you was a aristocratic nobleman. In a heap o' ways you's the same Kiddie. Nothin' c'n alter your natur' or wipe away th' effects of your early trainin' as a frontier scout.
"You go and see her for yourself; and if you don't say she is the worst beat out and the tiredest mortal that ye have ever seen you'll be surprisin' me. My God, Linda, they ain't nothin' in bein' rich if it can do to a girl what has been done to Eileen!" "Oh, well," said Linda impatiently, "don't condemn all money because Eileen has not found happiness with it.
"It's sure a surprisin' day an' pleasant " he finished, emphasizing "surprisin'" and "pleasant" till Carolyn June could have sworn there was a veiled taunt in the words he spoke. She was equally calm. Smiling sweetly and with not a hint of a previous meeting she said: "I think I have heard of the Ramblin' Kid." Pausing a moment: "It's always peaceful after a storm!" she added enigmatically.
"How was that, Luke? we never heerd on it." The young fisherman paused a few moments as if unwilling to talk on a distasteful subject. "Well, it ain't surprisin' you didn't hear of it," he said, "because I was in the Morgan fleet at the time, an' it's more than a year past. The way of it was this.
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