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The gunboat now fell a little behind, leaving the two submarines some four hundred yards apart, but as nearly as possible on a line. “Look at the crowd over on the ’Pollard’s’ decks,” muttered Hal. “They’re all Navy folks over there.” “And they mean to beat such plain ’dubs’ as they must consider us,” laughed Captain Jack, in an undertone.
But here—he shook his head in answer to his own thoughts. "Ain’t nobody gonna try to run a railroad through here," Anse replied promptly. "First place, they’re gonna be busy for a while back east puttin’ up new ones for all them what were busted up in th’ war.
The flute says he’ll be blowed if he plays any more, and they’re getting precious noisy in front.’ A general rush immediately takes place to the half-dozen little steep steps leading to the stage, and the heterogeneous group are soon assembled at the side scenes, in breathless anxiety and motley confusion. Scene 2, front chamber. Bridge ready, White? Got the tressels there?’—‘All right.’
They were all business and I had to be all business too, the whole day long. It was horribly stupid.” She pressed his arm significantly. “And do you think they will put all that money into the mill, David? Into the business?” “No doubt of it, dear. But they’re shrewd fellows: didn’t commit themselves in any way. Yet I could see they were impressed.
“There,” said Barclay, indicating a group of these idle observers, “you can at least do that.” “But what’s the use?” “Make yourself a critic; pick out eight or ten fellows to watch especially. In football or tennis or running. It doesn’t much matter. If they find you’re taking an intelligent interest in what they’re doing, they’ll be pleased.
You must astound them till they’re fascinated, upset, ashamed that such a gentleman should fall in love with such a little slut. It’s a jolly good thing that there always are and will be masters and slaves in the world, so there always will be a little maid-of-all-work and her master, and you know, that’s all that’s needed for happiness.
“Of course,” Maida said, wondering. “I asked you to come down here, Maida,” Laura said when the two little girls were alone, “because I wanted to tell you that I am sorry for the way I treated you just before I got diphtheria. I told my mother about it and she said I did those things because I was coming down sick. She said that people are always fretty and cross when they’re not well.
I ain’t no use for infidels, ’less they’re muzzled, which Leander mos’ generally is." With the feeling that there was an excellent though unspoken understanding between them, the two girls walked together to the top of the path that wandered away from camp towards a bluff overlooking wave after wave of foot-hills, lying blue and still like a petrified sea.
But it can very often be done by a resolute effort he gathered himself together as it were, and with one powerful exertion mastered his disordered nerves. Then he lifted his memorandum, gave one glance at the sad, calm face opposite him, and spoke. “You know they’re every once in a while explaining a vote, as they call it, in Congress.
But do not allow me to alarm you unduly! When all’s said and done, they’re not so badly off physically. Hair and ribs are mere vanities, anyhow, and we’re here to-day and gone to-morrow! Something much worse than disfigurements and broken bones has sprung forth from chaos, and has almost stared them out of countenance since.