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Helen broke off this chatter with an amused laugh. "Then mebbe I'd go to school a while," Tess kept on, "an' learn myself a lot out o' books, an' after that I'd take singin' lessons an' I'd sing to everybody what asked me Then mebbe " She dropped back for lack of words. "I wonder if that'd take the hull of the five thousand." Waldstricker stood up.
"When Terry got in, an' congratulatin' an' hand-shakin' was all over, Lieutenant Bradley he come in, sayin' he'd found Custer, an' we all dragged ourselves to th' spot. "There they was, all dead, two hunderd an' sixty-one of 'em. Not one lived t' tell th' tale. Them that'd bin deployed as skirmishers lay as they fell, havin' bin entirely surrounded in an open plain.
"It's got the cotton-fields and the slave days in it. It's got the whip and the stocks in it; it's got the cry of the old man that'd never see his children ag'in. That's what the fiddle's got in it." Suddenly, in an apparent outburst of anger, he swept down on the front door and drove the gathering crowd away. "Dis is a barber-shop," he said with an angry wave of his hand; "it ain't a circuse."
Taterleg and the girl came out and sat on the green rustic bench at the farther end of the porch. It complained under them; there was talk and low giggling. "We didn't expect to strike anything this soon," Lambert said, his active mind leaping ahead to shape new romance like a magician. "You don't look like the kind of boys that'd shy from a job if it jumped out in the road ahead of you."
Ye see thayer are yer beds an' pots an' pans, as well as food." "We'll have to take a wagon to the swamp and then carry them on our backs on the blazed trail," said Sam, and explained "our backs" by pointing to Michel and Si at work in the yard. "The road goes as far as the creek," suggested Yan; "let's make a raft there an' take the lot in it down to the swimming-pond; that'd be real Injun."
"Well, Mr Lynch," said Daly, "will you let me spake to Kelly about this, or would you rather sleep on the matther?" Barry gave a long sigh "Wouldn't he give six hundred, Daly? he'd still have two hundred clear, and think what that'd be for a fellow like him!" "You must ask him for it yourself then; I'll not propose to him any such thing.
Phil had asked to see the lad who, by neglecting the machinery for a moment, had wrecked his life. "My boy," he said, "you played an ugly game. It was a big mistake. I haven't any grudge agen you, but be glad I'm not one that'd haunt you for your cussed foolishness.... There, now, I feel better; that's off my mind!"
Five minutes later as they stood in the hallway she suddenly threw her arms round him. "Oh, Harry," she cried, her eyes brimming with tears; "let's get married next week. I'm afraid of having fusses like that. I'm afraid, Harry. It wouldn't be that way if we were married." But Harry, being in the wrong, was still irritated. "That'd be idiotic. We decided on March."
'Colonel Jim never looked round, but he went through that safe in a way that'd make your hair curl, throwing aside the bulky packages after tearing them open, taking only cash, which he thrust into a bag he had with him, till he was loaded like a millionaire. Then suddenly he swore, for the train began to move. "What is that fool Ed doing?" he shouted, rising to his feet.
"It's very plain to me, Avice, as thou doesn't live in a house where everything thou does turns to hot water. Me make friends! She'd have 'em out o' th' door afore they'd a-comed in. They wouldn't come twice, I reckon nay, they wouldn't. That'd be end o' my friend-making, Avice." "Uncle Dan, did you never try standing up to Aunt Filomena?" "Did I never try what?
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