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As soon as he was standing up straight he raised one hand in the air, as if he were in a play, and said: "Rescued at last!" Then he turned toward us, and remarked: "Gentlemen, I thank you." "You better wait till you're on board," said the Captain, "before you begin thankin' us. I'll come about in a minute, an' then we'll fetch yer in the tender."
They were in their saddles when Buck came beside Dan. His pride, his shame, and his gratitude broke his voice. "I ain't much on words," he said, "but it's you I'm thankin'!" His hand reached up hesitatingly, and Dan caught it in a firm grip. "Why," he said gently, "even Satan here stumbles now an' then, but that ain't no reason I should get rid of him. Good luck partner!"
"Thankin' you one and all," he began, with perhaps a vague recollection of the last circus he had seen, and there he stopped short. "Anyhow we thanks you," he said, getting a fresh start and jerking the words out as if they had been shots from a revolver. "It ain't every day we has a pleasure like this here hes bin "
He smiled and said, slowly and consolingly: "I reckon if you'd shot me I'd be knowin' it. Don't take it so hard, ma'am. Why, if a man goes to breakin' into a woman's room that way he sure ain't fit to go on livin' in a world where there is a woman." "It was Lawson you say? Meeder Lawson the Rancho Seco foreman? I thought why, I thought it was you!" "I'm thankin' you, ma'am," he said, ironically.
What's more, tide'll be runnin' for two hour yet; an' it hasn' reached my ears that the fashion of thankin' the Lord for His bounty have a-perished out o' this old-fangled race of men an' women; though no doubt, my dear, you'd get first news o' the change, with a bed-room window facin' on Ruan Cove."
"'Thankin' you for the compliment, it ain't, I says. 'My name's Wingate. "'Oh! says he. 'Is that so? I've heard father speak of you, Mr. Wingate. He is Solomon Bearse, of West Ostable. I think you know him slightly. "Know him? Everybody on the Cape knows Sol Bearse; by reputation, anyhow. He's the richest, meanest old cranberry grower and coastin'-fleet owner in these parts.
Thank God! he had been reared by a Christian father of the old school. "No, no, doctor!" he declared, his face contorted by pain. "I'm thankin' you kindly; but I'm not carin' t' interfere with the decrees o' Providence." "But, man," cried the doctor, "I must " "No!" doggedly. "I'll not stand in the Lard's way. If 'tis His will for me t' get better, I'll get better, I s'pose.
Take him home and sell him, buy a good yoke of oxen; they are fast enough for a farmer, and give up blood horses to them that can afford to keep stable helps to tend 'em, and leave bettin alone to them, as has more money nor wit, and can afford to lose their cash, without thankin agin of their loss. When I WANT your advice, said he, I will ASK IT, most peskily sulky.
"Wade, I've heerd of you fer years. Some bad, but most good, an' I reckon I'm jest as glad to meet you as if you'd been somebody else." "You'll give me the job?" "I should smile." "I'm thankin' you. Reckon I was some worried. Jobs are hard for me to get an' harder to keep." "Thet's not onnatural, considerin' the hell which's said to camp on your trail," replied Belllounds, dryly.
Dennin shuffled his feet on the barrel, looked down bashfully like a man making his maiden speech, and cleared his throat. "I'm glad it's over with," he said. "You've treated me like a Christian, an' I'm thankin' you hearty for your kindness." "Then may God receive you, a repentant sinner," she said.
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