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Tell me, because I have heard tales. I have been perplexed about you. I am sure you're a manly fellow, who would never have played tricks with a girl you were bound to protect; but you might have pardon the slang spooned, who knows? You might have been in love with her downright. No harm, even if a trifle foolish; but in the present case, set my mind at rest. Quick! There are both my hands.
"We weren't there at all to-night," Curley replied. "Haines and I were out in my car, and we'd just got back when you picked us up at the store on the way up here. But, at that, I guess you're right.
Hester waved her arms about, and swayed from side to side, her eyes fixed in a glassy stare, and her red curls bobbing. "Good gracious!" cried Marjorie. "You're like a witch I saw on the stage once in a fairy pantomime. Say, Hester, let's have a pantomime entertainment some day." "All right. My mother'll help us. She's always getting up private theatricals and things like that.
Machin!" she burst out. "You've got an unprecedented opportunity, and thank Heaven you're the man to use it! We're all expecting so much from you, and we know we shan't be disappointed." "D'ye mean the theatre?" he asked, alarmed as it were amid rising waters. "The theatre," said she, gravely. "You're the one man that can save London.
The young man did not answer, but looked slowly round the room, and then at his friend's grave face. "Bob," he said, "where are we?" "In my chambers, dear boy, in the Temple. You have no lodgings of your own, so you may as well stay with me while you're in town."
"Do you know," she said to Elise, "I don't believe I shall read much; I think I shall just sit and look at the water and dream." "All right," said her practical friend; "but take a book with you, for if you don't you're sure to want one; while if you do, you probably won't look at it." "Elise, you're a genius. I'll take the book, and also some of this candy.
I see you're going to say something. Spare yourself the trouble! nothing ever goes wrong if I myself take it in hand."
"A little bread or biscuit." He clasped his hands behind his back and surveyed me for quite a minute. "I don't believe you're a quack," he observed. "But when you walked into the room, I was doubtful." "Why?" "Because you wouldn't look at me squarely." "Why should I look at you squarely? I looked at you and saw you. I have no desire to make any impression on you, or to dominate you in any way.
In throth, they never came to ill that had it, an' never did good that got my curse! Hoop! do you hear how that rises the wind off o' my stomach! Houp! Deah Grasthias for that!" "How did you larn all the prayers an' charms you have, Darby?" inquired the bottle-holder. "It would take me too long to tell you that, avillish! But, childher, now that you're all together, make it up wid one another.
"Well, if you're like the other Gentiles who have come into Utah you won't have scruples about drawing on a man. Father says the draw comes natural to you, and you're as quick as he is. Then he says you can beat any rifle shot he ever saw, and that long-barrelled gun you've got will shoot a mile. So if it comes to shooting why, you can shoot.
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