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Hawkeye handed him back two quarters, and started to punch a cash-fare slip. He looked up to find the man holding out one of the quarters insistently, if somewhat unsteadily. "What's the matter?" demanded Hawkeye brusquely. "Bad," said the man. A drummer grinned; and an elderly gentleman, from his magazine, looked up inquiringly over his spectacles. "Bad!"
"It is," I replied, and, I may as well add, I was thoroughly disgusted with the man. "Then I'm yours truly, and no mistake. Excuse me till I get them." Be rose unsteadily and left the room. Hardly had he gone before his wife hurried to my side. "Oh, sir, I hope you are not getting him into trouble?" she cried. "He is a good man when he is sober; indeed he is," "I am not going to harm him, madam.
The old woman was a-drowse on the porch of the rickety little log-cabin beneath the gourd vines, the paralytic grandfather came hirpling unsteadily through the doorway on his supporting crutch, his pipe shaking in his shaking hand, while he muttered and mumbled to himself who knows what? whether of terror of the future, or regret for the past, or doubt and despair of to-day.
It was some unfamiliar tune, but when the Semi-drunk Painter heard it he rose unsteadily to his feet and began shuffling and dancing about, singing: 'Oh, we'll inwite you to the wedding, An' we'll 'ave a glorious time! Where the boys an' girls is a-dancing, An' we'll all get drunk on wine. ''Ere! that's quite enough o' that! cried the landlord, roughly. 'We don't want that row 'ere.
In fact, not until darkness fell did he arouse himself sufficiently to rise unsteadily to his feet and to limp away from the bank of the treacherous river. It was the seventh year since the great drought. Choflo, headman, sorcerer and oracle of the Cantanas, scanned the brassy sky and smote his breast with clenched fists.
As he looked down at it, and felt the fragrant rum steaming softy into his nostrils, his face expanded, and while his left hand unsteadily conveyed the tumbler to his lips, his right reached across the table and fraternally extended itself to Mat. "My dear friend," said Mr. Blyth affectionately, "how kind you are! Pray how do you make the Squaw's mixture?"
Only happiness and joy, and and heaps of other rippin' things. Never mind, we'll make it soon, won't we?" She raised her face suddenly and her eyes met his. There was a haunted look in them that made him draw closer, his own face anxious. "What is it, dear?" he said in a low, worried tone. "Only Dacre Wynne. Always Dacre Wynne these days," she replied unsteadily.
He glanced at the cretonnes and colored prints in her living-room, and gurgled, "Gosh, you've fixed the place nice! Takes a clever woman to know how to make a home, all right!" "You really like it? I'm so glad! But you've neglected me, scandalously. You promised to come some time and learn to dance." Rather unsteadily, "Oh, but you didn't mean it seriously!" "Perhaps not.
Then, with a nervous start, she asked: "Did he call?" "No. He'll he'll warn me," Johnson told her unsteadily. "Oh, every day that dawns I'll wait for a message from you. I'll feel you wanting me. Every night I'll say to-morrow, and every to-morrow I'll say to-day . . . Oh, you've changed the whole world for me!
She laughed with nervous hilarity she even tried valiantly to put on a pair of new black kid gloves, but, failing in this, pushed them unsteadily into the pocket of her coat. "I'm I'm all right," she asserted fiercely, as Rhoda Gray, pausing in the act of gathering up the discarded garments, regarded her anxiously.
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