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"Why didn't she go to the hotel where the others are, if she wouldn't come here?" "But the arr'stocracy, Mr. Wilfrud! And alone alone! d'ye see? which couldn't be among the others; becas of sweet whisperin'. 'Alone," Mrs. Chump read on; "'and to-morrow I'll pay my respects to what you call your simmering pot of Emerald broth. Oh ye hussy! I'd say, if ye weren't a borrn lady.
I've heard all that she's heard there the creepin', the sighin', and the whisperin' through the bracken and the ground-vines of all that lives there." "You seem to be a poet yourself," said the editor, with a patronizing smile. "I'm a lumberman, up in Mendocino," returned the stranger, with sublime naivete. "Got a mill there.
'Twas the charm you spoke about: an' that same midnight I delved a hole by the dreshold an' buried the coat, whisperin', 'Man, come back, come back to me! as Aun' Lesnewth had a-taught me, times afore. "But she, the pale woman, had a-seen me, dro' a chink o' the parlour-door, as I tuk the coat down. An' she knowed what I tuk it for.
And my face, so to speak, was laughing on its own account till I had it hid. I tell you I was regular scared like at my luck. I jest thought that it 'ad to be kep' close and that was all. 'Treasure, I kep' whisperin' to myself, 'Treasure' and ''undreds of pounds, 'undreds, 'undreds of pounds. Whispering to myself like, and digging like blazes.
As they brushed past me on their way to the stairs I took a chance on whisperin' to Tessie. "Hadn't you better ring up the doc?" I suggests. "Maybe I had," says she. Perhaps she did, too. I expect it didn't matter much.
"Guess Heth'd like to make him a little present, under the circumstances. I was goin' through the barber shop," Mr. Hartington continued, speaking to Jethro and ignoring the railroad president, "and I heard somebody whisperin' my name. Sound came out of that little shampoo closet; went in there and found Bije. 'Peleg, says he, right into my ear, 'tell Jethro it's all right you understand.
"You don't mean," says he, whisperin' husky in my ear, "that you would do anything for such a creature?" "She's on the list, ain't she?" says I. "Ye-e-es," he admits; "but " "Let's ask the lady herself for a few more details, so we can have something definite to go on," says I. "Excuse us, Mrs. Shaw, for this little side debate; but we ain't quite made up our minds about you yet.
"They come a whisperin' at the door, an' a rattlin' ov the handle as soon as ever you gone downstairs. But I tole 'em just to take theirselves off, an' as 'ow you didn't want 'em. Sillies!" And taking a crust smeared with treacle out of his pocket, Benny returned with a severe air to the sucking of it. Marcella laughed.
And, say, my guess is that you'll get about ten years on the rockpile." When the special directors' meetin' gets under way, though, and the big guns of the Corrugated law force got on the job, there was less noise and more electricity in the air. Honest, with all that tiptoein' and whisperin' and serious looks bein' passed around, I didn't even have the gall to guy one of the new typewriter girls.
Pneumony, lightnin', and lawyers they're the same thing spelled different. I'm just goin' to do him, that's all, and instink is whisperin' how." He turned his back on the showman and ran calculating eye over Mr. Bodge. "I don't hardly see how that old hair mattress there is goin' to be rung in on the deal," growled Hiram.
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