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The beast asked her if she had come quite of her own accord, and though she was now still more afraid than before, she made shift to say, "Y-e-s." "You are a good girl, and I think myself very much obliged to you." He then turned towards her father, and said to him, "Good man, you may leave the palace to-morrow morning, and take care never to come back to it again. Good night, Beauty."
What was it the little bird was saying over and over again, as plain as plain could be? "I rubbed my eyes and pinched my arm, to make sure I was awake; for I thought I must have dreamed it. But no, there it was again, sweet, sad, reproachful: 'NAUGHTY GIRL! NAUGHTY GIRL! NAUGHTY GIRL! Y-E-S,
"Do I get the mission, Excellency?" was the only reply he vouchsafed. "Y-e-s." The superior's single acquiescence was prolonged into three syllables, urged by the acknowledged supreme ability of Kolinsky and restrained by a fear of apprehended duplicity. Aware of this struggle the clever fellow turned back in the doorway to laugh at the other's perplexity.
"It's a chicken sk-snake," he proclaimed proudly; and while both Roxanne and I tucked our feet up under our skirts and squealed, he drew with triumph a very fat, red fishing-worm out of the can and displayed it, hanging across one of his chubby fingers. "It's a lovely chicken-eating sk-snake," he said with breathless admiration. "Y-e-s," I said doubtfully.
"But," continued the ancient lady, sweeping him with a quick, approving gaze, "I like your face, and y-e-s, you have a very good leg. You also possess a tongue, perhaps, and can speak?" "Given the occasion, madam," said Barnabas, smiling. "Ha, sir! do I talk so much then? Well, perhaps I do, for when a woman ceases to talk she's dead, and I'm very much alive indeed.
"Well, y-e-s," said the housewife at the door, "I can let you have that." "Thankee, mum. Now, you'd oblige me very much if you'd let me have a bit of cloth for a patch." "Yes, here is some." "Thankee very much, mum. It's a little different color from my suit, I see. Perhaps, mum, you could spare me some of your husband's old clothes that this patch will match." "Well, I declare!
"Was it you who threaded that needle for me so blamed slowly and calmly and surely, while all the rest of us were jumping up and down and cursing you for no brighter reason than that we couldn't have threaded it ourselves if we'd had all eternity before us and all creation bleeding to death?" "Y-e-s, sir," said Rae Malgregor.
"I grant it, unless the real murderer of the pedlar could be brought forward." "Y-e-s," replied Austin, trembling. "Shall I denounce him, Mr Austin?" "Do you know him?" replied Austin, starting on his feet. "Yes, Rushbrook," replied McShane, in a voice of thunder, "I do know him, 'tis yourself!" Austin could bear up no longer, he fell down on the floor as if he had been shot.
Stevens with a wry little smile. "Worth every cent you paid us for it, wasn't it?" demanded the other. "Y-e-s; but if you hadn't stepped into the deal at the last minute, we could have secured it for five or six thousand dollars less money." "You used to go after these things yourself," explained Mr. Turner with an easy laugh. "Now you send out people empowered only to look and not to purchase."
He was here one day when you called, and he was walking with me in the lobby of the theater when you came in to join us one evening." "Y-e-s," drawled Bobby, as if he were placing the man with difficulty. "The Chalmers' are charming people," she went on. "His wife is perfectly fascinating. We used to go to school together.
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