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I'm willin' to lead an' take the hull blame, if yez don't funk on me at the last minute." "Good fer you, Jake," several shouted. "We'll stand by ye, never fear." "All right, then," Jake replied, "I'll bank on yez all. But yez better go home now an' think this all over, an' what is more important, keep ye'r tongues still an' don't blab this all over the place.
Ye've got the whole thing in ye're eye, and I only had a part of it. It's because ye're the bigger man of the two." "You thought I'd come to it?" demanded Hodder, as though the full force of this insight had just struck him. "Well," said McCrae, "I hoped. It seemed, to look at ye, ye'r true nature what was by rights inside of ye. That's the best explaining I can do.
Francis's didn't I think they were things to pull down to keep the flies off ye'r face. Say, you should have heard Camilla laugh, and ma saw a girl at a picnic once who drank lemonade through her veil, and she et a banana, skin and all." Pearl laughed heartily, but the Englishman only smiled faintly. Canadian ways were growing stranger all the time.
"Guess we'd better go now," Tom remarked when Nell had finished her ablutions. "It must be purty late. But afore I go I wish to ask ye'r pardon, miss," and he turned to Nell as he spoke. "I wasn't jist meself to-night, an' I guess the rest were in the same fix." "A moment, Tom," and Douglas laid his hand upon his shoulder.
"If, sir," said I, with an air of the most balmy courtesy "If I can be of any use in assisting you to see your friends home " "Ah! then, ye'r a nice looking article to see ladies home. I wish you seen yourself this minute," said he.
I b'lieve I'm robbed right along, an' if ye'r' willin' ter help me I shall be most tarnally grateful, an' will give ye my word I'll never let on ter anybody what ye say an' Silas Terry never yit broke his promise." Albert silently offered his hand to Uncle Terry, who grasped it cordially. "I will tell you, Mr. Terry," he said after the handshake, "all I know about Mr.
You say he quarreled with my father?" "Weel, ye see, ye'r mither was dead." It was Aunt Ellen, the elder by twenty years, who told him most about it, she who spoke with the broadest Scotch. "Was my father a bad man, that Uncle 'Elder' disliked him so?"
"It was bravely done, at any rate, Richling," said the Doctor. "That it was!" said Kate Ristofalo, who had happened to call to see the sick man at the same hour. "Doctor, ye'r mighty right! Ha!" Mrs. Reisen expressed a like opinion, and the two kind women met the two men's obvious wish by leaving the room.
There, now you see the difference," and a great crooked, angling pillar of smoke rolled upward as soon as the grass and punk began to sizzle in the glow of embers. "I bet ye kin see that ten miles away if ye'r on a high place to look for it." "I bet I could see it twenty miles," chirped in Guy. "Mr. Clark, were you ever lost?" continued the tireless asker. "Why, course I was, an' more than once.
Sure, ye'r more surprised to see 'im leppin' down the hill to meet ye, like a rale Irish tarrier." Mac was angry, and didn't conceal the fact. As he ran to stop the thing before it should be dashed to pieces, the priest happened to glance back, and saw coming slowly along the river trail a solitary figure that seemed to make its way with difficulty.
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