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"In the hot old days I was hot with the rest, Vard. I've mellowed some since." "You may not find me a safe man, Thelismer. I shall come back out of the shadows with a firm resolve to merit the approval of the young men of this State and the young men see more clearly than their fathers did." "I'm not here to-night with bridle or bit or halter, Varden. We need you. The party has got to have you.
The bearer of the torch nodded, not once or twice, but a score of times, with a fantastic exaggeration. "How came it here?" demanded Varden, pointing to the body. "Steel, steel, steel!" Barnaby replied fiercely, imitating the thrust of a sword. "Is he robbed?" said the blacksmith. Barnaby caught him by the arm, and nodded "Yes," pointing towards the city. "Oh!" said the old man.
When Retta saw Tom's basket of fish she said, "Well, I think the fresh-water fishes much prettier. I am sure the rainbow and Dolly Varden trout with their bright-colored spots, which we saw up in the Truckee River and the mountain lakes last summer, were better to look at and to eat than these sea monsters." Tom laughed and said, "Oh, that was because you helped to catch some of those.
And yet here was this same Dolly Varden, so whimsical and hard to please that she was Dolly Varden still, all smiles and dimples and pleasant looks, and caring no more for the fifty or sixty young fellows who at that very moment were breaking their hearts to marry her, than if so many oysters had been crossed in love and opened afterwards.
'You needn't cry, Miggs, said Mrs Varden, herself in tears; 'you needn't be ashamed of it, though your poor mistress IS on the same side. Miggs howled at this remark, in a peculiarly dismal way, and said she knowed that master hated her. That it was a dreadful thing to live in families and have dislikes, and not give satisfactions.
The glee with which the locksmith asked Joe if he remembered that stormy night at the Maypole when he first asked after Dolly the laugh they all had, about that night when she was going out to the party in the sedan-chair the unmerciful manner in which they rallied Mrs Varden about putting those flowers outside that very window the difficulty Mrs Varden found in joining the laugh against herself, at first, and the extraordinary perception she had of the joke when she overcame it the confidential statements of Joe concerning the precise day and hour when he was first conscious of being fond of Dolly, and Dolly's blushing admissions, half volunteered and half extorted, as to the time from which she dated the discovery that she 'didn't mind' Joe here was an exhaustless fund of mirth and conversation.
He struck me with his whip, the coward, when he was mounted and I afoot, and I should be better pleased that he turned out what I think him. 'And what may that be, Joe? 'No good, Mr Varden. You may shake your head, father, but I say no good, and will say no good, and I would say no good a hundred times over, if that would bring him back to have the drubbing he deserves.
Well, she DO look like it, that she do. Only think of that, mim! 'Is it possible, said Mr Chester in his softest tones, 'that this is Mrs Varden! I am amazed. That is not your daughter, Mrs Varden? No, no. Your sister. 'My daughter, indeed, sir, returned Mrs V., blushing with great juvenility. 'Ah, Mrs Varden! cried the visitor.
Siegfried, on the contrary, in a distance of six hundred and ninety-six miles from the sources to St. Some of that water, too, which he so conveniently escaped is very unpleasant, even dangerous, especially Pike Rapids, into which I was drawn unawares, and had to run through at considerable risk to my boat. I am, sir, yours, The Crew of the Dolly Varden. PHILADELPHIA, August 21, 1880.
Here he was, talking like a gentleman at large who was free to come and go and roam about the world at pleasure, when that gallant coachmaker had vowed but the night before that Miss Varden held him bound in adamantine chains; and had positively stated in so many words that she was killing him by inches, and that in a fortnight more or thereabouts he expected to make a decent end and leave the business to his mother.
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