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She was scarcely tactful. "How do you make all of this money, Jim?" she questioned; "do you come by it honestly?" A dark wave of colour spread over the man's face dyeing it to an ugly crimson. "What's it matter how I get it," he snarled, "long's I get it! What business is it of yers how I come by my coin? I ain't stagin' a investergation.
My friend then asked him if he would not join us in a drink. "I'll jine yer in a dram; but I'll be gol darned if you don't look just like a chap what dinkered me out of $1,000 when I got off at Cincinnati to see the town; but he wasn't so big." That made my friend laugh. He asked Jack how he lost his money. "Wall, I'll tell yers.
"I am worrying about Mr. Wingate, Mrs. Shafto. He was to have been back in two days, and here it is nearly two weeks since he and the Indian went away." "Indians is all varmints, anyway, but don't ye worry 'bout that man of yers. Ain't worth it. None of 'em is." "Don't you say that about my Hippy," rebuked Nora indignantly. "I love my husband, just as you loved yours."
Keeps er paint store down street, and deals in painters' merterial, but never buys er baral er biled oil wonc't in five yers; but, like de widder in the Scripter, he alers has er baral ter draw frum when er customer wants biled oil.
The 'authorities had been assured that the troops were necessary for the protection of their city, but the magistrates had learned, but too recently, the nature of the protection which Van Ende, with his mercenaries, would afford. A detachment of states troops under De Yers, Champagny's nephew, encountered the regiment of Van Ende, and put it to flight with considerable loss.
I'll tell him! He shall come back to you to-night if it kills me." Tessibel lifted her white face. "Ye be goin' to tell him that the brat air yers?" queried she brokenly. "I'll go and make it all right with him. He shall come to you to-day.... Oh, what a wicked girl I was! Kiss me, Tess." Elias Graves' beautiful daughter sank on the breast of the squatter, and there was a kiss of forgiveness.
The 'authorities had been assured that the troops were necessary for the protection of their city, but the magistrates had learned, but too recently, the nature of the protection which Van Ende, with his mercenaries, would afford. A detachment of states troops under De Yers, Champagny's nephew, encountered the regiment of Van Ende, and put it to flight with considerable loss.
"No, sah, Massa Knox, I ain't 'feared o' yer yers one o' dem down-easterners." "Well, not exactly that. I came from a slave state, but my family is of New England blood and breeding. I am just as much your friend as though you were white. Now you and I have got a hard job before us." "Yas, sah, we sure has." "And the first thing we have got to do, is to trust each other.
He made a desperate move toward her; but the cat rose threateningly, its hair standing on end in a mound upon the humped back. Lem fell away with an oath, and Scraggy, smiling wanly, petted the vicious brute. "I said ye was to keep away, Lem. Wait till I get done. Flea's got to be some 'un else's, not yers." "Who's?" Lem's voice rose; but he did not advance toward her. "I dunno; but I seed him.
"Av Tex wud a listened to raison, Sorr, I'd a-dumped the danged thing into the river, sayin' nothin' to nobody. Fwhat good can we do rakin' up the past that's dead an' gone? The girl is as much yers as if she was yer own flesh an' blood, an' who can say fwhat divil's own mess may come out av this thing? Lave it alone, I say; an' fwhat nobody don't know can't hurt thim.
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