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Updated: June 17, 2025
"Our troops and the rebels are at it! I would give six months' pay to see the charge." "Umph!" returned his companion, without ceasing his meal, "they do very well to look at from a distance; I can't say but the company of this bacon, cold as it is, is more to my taste, just now, than a hot fire from the continentals." "The discharges are heavy for so small a force; but the fire seems irregular."
There the boy greeted the visitor politely, as his sister had done. "My goodness," was the aunt's greeting to him, "you got an armful of books, too!" "Yes. I'm going to be a lawyer, but I have to do a lot of hard studying before I get that far." "Umph, that's nothin' to brag about. I'd think more of you if you stayed home and helped Amos plant corn and potatoes or tobacco."
Drew had entered the rear door, and went at once to the small bare pulpit. "Umph!" whispered Gaston. "Looks like a picture of John the Baptist." "He don't act like it." Jock was in arms at once against any suspected criticism. "He's got more sand than many a blasted heavyweight. You ought to hear his gab it's the newest thing in soul-saving. Sort o' homeopathic doctrine.
"Your slippers are on the hearth, your gown is at the fire and the kettle is boiling to make your punch, Major Warfield," said the old lady in passing. "Umph! umph! umph!" grunted Black Donald in reply. The housekeeper then bade him good-night, saying that she was going at once to her room. "Umph!" assented Black Donald. And so they parted and this peril was passed.
"Commands umph I think the damsel might have tarried for another exhortation," said the soldier "truly, I profess my mind was much inclined toward her for her edification." "Oh, sir," replied Joliffe, "she will be at church next Sunday, and if your military reverence is pleased again to hold forth amongst us, she will have use of the doctrine with the rest.
If there are slashers hanging around the trading post they'll be only too anxious to get you drunk, and put you out of business. There's too much at stake to run any risk." "Umph! me no get drunk," the Indian retorted. "Me no fool. Me no crazee white man." It took them almost a half hour to cross to the mainland. Here they landed, concealed the canoe, and ate a frugal meal of bread and dried meat.
Gashwiler tried hard to look as if he were trying to recall the meaning of Wiles's words. "Oh! ah! umph! let me see, oh, yes, the certificates, certainly! Of course you will make them out in the name of my secretary, Mr. Expectant Dobbs. They will perhaps repay him for the extra clerical labor required in the prosecution of your claim. He is a worthy young man.
"There!" cried the boy triumphantly; "it looks now almost like the back patch, and you've spoiled it all." "Umph!" grunted the monk, re-opening the window and laying his work in the sun to dry. "Wait a bit." "Yes, I'll wait," said the boy, watching the shiny wet paint turn more and more dull; "but I don't like it."
He wouldn't be hanging around a burg like this for months unless he had a blamed good reason for keeping out of sight." "He's been in mighty bad health, and, if anybody should ask you, there ain't a healthier place in the world than right here in " "It's healthier than most jails," admitted the other with a chuckle. "Umph!" grunted Mr.
George watched him anxiously as he took off his hat, rubbed his nose violently with his pocket handkerchief, and stood gazing into the fire, ejaculating every now and then, as was his custom if anything extraordinary or disagreeable had happened, "Ah! umph!"
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