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"I daren't say how stunning you look, Florence," he returned. "Frank," she said, slowly, fixing her lustrous eyes on his face, "you usen't to be so grave. ... I don't think you have smiled much lately ... you are changed." He bore her scrutiny with silence. "Poor boy!" she exclaimed, impulsively taking his hand. "I'm the most heartless creature in the whole world.
He stopped by the stage step, and wheeling nimbly, surveyed his old-time acquaintance, noting the good hat, the prosperous watch-chain, the big, well-blacked boots. "Not seen me for ten years. Hee-hee! No. Usen't to have a cent more than me. Twins in poverty. That's how Dutchy and me started. If we was buried to-morrow they'd mark him 'Pecunious' and me 'Impecunious. That's what.
Now, I wonder if that would chance to be our old friend Kotei you remember Kotei?" he added, turning to me. "No, sir; this man's name is Futashima. There was another Jap in the works, a chap named Itu, a pal of Futashima's, but he's left." "Ah! I don't know either of them. By the way, usen't there to be a cab-yard just about here?"
"Well, now, about the money you've been spending lately?" questioned Charlie, with a smile. "You usen't to be so flush of cash, you know, a month ago." "I can tell you," answered Elgood; "I had a very large present large for me, I mean three weeks ago. My father sent me a pound, because it was my birthday, and my big brother and aunt sent me each a pound too."
The rifle lay against the wall behind him, and he turned and touched it almost caressingly. "I ain't let go like this since he was killed, Sinnet. It don't do. I got to keep myself stiddy to do the trick when the minute comes. At first I usen't to sleep at nights, thinkin' of Clint, an' missin' him, an' I got shaky and no good.
Why, ye fool, that is the beauty of him. How is he to hit 'em if he doesn't hit at 'em? Fry. Mr. Jones usen't. Hawes. Oh, Jones! He shot his arrow up in the air and let it fall wherever the wind chose to blow it, and then, if it came down on the wrong man's head he'd say, never mind, my boy, accident! pure accident! No! give me a chap that hits out straight from the shoulder.
"Usen't farm laborers to wear them once?" suggested Lilias. "But Shakespeare says, "'When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When ring the woods with rooks and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks," objected Prissie. "Was it an upper or an under garment?" questioned Noreen. "I'm sure I don't know. I don't fancy we any of us possess 'smocks'!"
They were building up a new life, obscure, yet gilded with tranquillity. Leonard was dead; Charles had two years more in prison. One usen't always to see clearly before that time. It was different now. "I like Henry because he does worry." "And he likes you because you don't." Helen sighed. She seemed humiliated, and buried her face in her hands.
How can she answer him all through? If he speaks against her, what is she to do? If she has in all justice to condemn her in some little ways, will she bear it? Will she keep her fingers in her ears? "Ah headache, I suppose," says Rylton. "Yes; her head aches sometimes," says Margaret, who now feels she is fast developing into a confirmed liar. "It usen't to ache," says he.
"Usen't Wyndham to be down on fellows for swearing too?" asked Silk. This cub hasn't." "What did Riddell say?" "What did he say? He said it didn't make what I said any better worth hearing for sticking in an oath, and that Oh, I don't know what precious impudence he didn't give me." "Ha, ha," said Silk, "it wasn't bad. But I agree with you, the fellow is a prig "
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