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"Cody," laughed the general, "that remarkable quadruped of yours looks equal to a return trip. Our horses are pretty well fagged out, but we have made a quick trip and a good one. You brought us 'cross country straight as the crow flies, and that's the sort of service I appreciate. Any time you're in need of work, report to me. I'll see that you're kept busy."
The Lieutenant-General said, 'If I had the Rocky Mountain Rangers here, we would make those creatures climb a tree. Then she made believe that the Rangers were in hearing, and put up her bugle and blew the 'assembly'; and then, 'boots and saddles'; then the 'trot'; 'gallop'; 'charge! Then she blew the 'retreat, and said, 'That's for you, you rebels; the Rangers don't ever retreat!
"That's exactly what his cousin Madame de Relzieres said to me the other day at the At Home she gave in my honour wasn't it, Sonia?" And she walked to the window, and, turning her back on them, stared out of it. "She HAS got her mouth full of that At Home," said Jeanne to Marie in a low voice. There was an awkward silence.
"I believe that fellow lied." "So do I, sir," I answered promptly. "Whatever else he may be, he's no peaceful Dutch trader. The bark is Dutch built all right, and no doubt once sailed out of Rotterdam; but that fellow got his accent from South Europe." "Damn me, that's just what I thought." "Nor is that all, sir.
He had no warped ethics wherewith to ease his conscience. She knew his ideas of right and wrong were as uncompromising as her own, and if he stole cattle, he did it with his eyes wide open to the wrong he was doing. And yet "That's bad enough, but to try and fasten evidence on someone else!" Billy Louise gritted her teeth over the treachery of it. She believed he had done that very thing.
"He is thinking of it. The old gentleman has saved some money, and he has a sister in the West who is anxious to have him come out there and spend the remainder of his days with her. If he does, I can have his position, I guess. In fact, he has been good enough to say so." "Well, that's pretty fine, ain't it? Langley ain't the man to chuck his good opinions round like clam shells.
That's what I hate, when it hangs about 'em." Then the tea-things were taken away, Mrs. Smiley in her familiarity assisting in the removal, and in spite of the example now before them some more sugar and some more spirits, and some more hot water were put upon the table. "Well, I don't mind just the least taste in life, Mrs.
"Then you expect to throw more than fifty dollars a week over the side, just to obey the law?" "That's what!" Percy lapsed into silence. The lobsters disposed of, Jim began to clear the trap of its other contents. A big brown sculpin was floundering on the laths. Taking him out gingerly, Jim tossed him into the bait-tub upon the hake heads. "He'll do for bait in a few days."
Amelius looked up at him sharply. "You servants always make a fuss about trifles. I am a little out of sorts; and I want a change that's all. Perhaps I may go to America. You won't like that; I shan't complain if you look out for another situation." The tears came into the old man's eyes. "Never!" he answered fervently.
Ruth stated that you had a headache and now I discover you in a coughing fit bad enough to take off your head. Is your throat sore?" "A little." "Why in the name of all that's sensible haven't you gone to your uncle's? I begin to think you're unbalanced." "I explained my reasons once, Lee."
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