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"They're not doing any harm." "I can't have 'em there," said the skipper gruffly. "They've got other things to do." "I must have some assistance with that boiler and the saucepans," said Mrs. Blossom decidedly, "so don't you interfere with what don't concern you, Jimmy." "That's mutiny," whispered the horrified mate. "Sheer, rank mutiny." "She don't know no better," whispered the other back.
"That's another complication. Morley wore rubbers last night. Either he or Perry might have made that footprint on the porch." "How about Withers?" Greenleaf advanced a new idea. "He didn't tell us anything he did after seeing Campbell leave here last night." "That's true. You'd better see him tonight. Ask him about that; and find out what time he returned to the Brevord.
Live and larn they say, and it's thrue, too." "But, mother, you ain't wishing poor Anty wasn't here?" "Indeed, but I do; everything to give and nothin to get that's not the way I have managed to live. But it's not that altogether, neither.
"Undermining the reputation of a company as sound as any in this city, a company that's not overcapitalized, either. And we're giving better service right now than any of your consolidated lines."... He was in no frame of mind to argue with; the conversation was distinctly unpleasant. I don't remember what I said something to the effect that he was excited, that his language was extravagant.
"You can't get it at all for any such purpose. How do you know it's a fake?" "How do I know? Oh, dammit! I'M Luther Pruyn!" He snatched off his glasses and faced them. The little group stood petrified. Mr. Brewster was first to recover. "Crazy, poor chap!" he said. "Luther Pruyn was my classmate." "That's my father, Luther L." "Proofs," said Sherwen sharply. "In my coat pocket. In the room.
"You ought to have sold to-day. It's the top of the market. They'll begin to decline soon, and when once they begin they'll come down with a crash, as P.L.'s did on Saturday. You take my advice and sell out first thing to-morrow morning. You'll clear sixteen pounds on each of your shares. That's enough for any man. You bought ten shares, I think, didn't you?
You know best if they did." "Of course they did," he broke in, glibly. "Haven't you lived in the same house with me long enough to know me better than any one else does?" "You can live in the same house with people and know less about them than any one else, for that matter," said Kate, "but that's neither here nor there.
"Oh, mon pauvre !" "Hush! Don't trouble your dear head about that," "But I must. It breaks my heart " He laughed. "That's worse than ever! You've got to keep your heart intact for me." His eyes travelled from her face to her unadorned left hand. Hers followed them; and a half smile parted her lips. "Where d'you keep them?" he asked under his breath.
Jim Taylor, in Kentucky, taking care of his children. I was an awful tiny little somethin' about eight or nine years old. I used to turn the reel for the old folks who was spinning. That's all I've ever known work. "I never got a penny. My master kept me and my sister Mary twenty-two long years after we were supposed to be free. Work, work, work.
Suddenly she cut short the nervous outbreak of suggestions and in the same firm voice continued: "Every one take his place about the table. That's it. That will do." The women, with the exception of the inscrutable Maude Lille, gazed hysterically from face to face while the men, compressing their fingers, locking them or grasping their chins, looked straight ahead fixedly at their hostess. Mrs.
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