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There sat Responsibility in a chair, washed clean and dressed, watching him. "You're awful late," said Responsibility. "But I weren't a-going without telling you good-bye." "Go?" exclaimed Lin. "Go where? Yu' surely ain't leavin' me to eat breakfast alone?" The cow-puncher made his voice very plaintive. Set Responsibility free after all his trouble to catch him? This was more than he could do!
She refolded it gently and put it back in his bundle, for there was enough bandage without it. She said not a word to him, and he placed a wrong meaning upon the look which she gave him as she returned to bind his shoulder. "Yu' must not squander your pity." "Do not squander your strength," said she. "Oh, I could put up a pretty good fight now!"
"That fuss was a fool joke of Buck's, an' I wish they had been throwed out," Hopalong replied. "What I want to know is if Miss Deane is in her room. Yu see, I have a date with her." The clerk grinned: "So she's roped you, too, has she?" "What do yu mean?" Asked Hopalong in surprise. "Well, well," laughed the clerk. "You punchers are easy.
He wore an awed look and dragged his feet, as though they were fettered." Which means that he felt the royal office to be sacred, as the seat of authority and government, the symbol and representative of heaven, the fountain of order: in its origin, divine. He treated Marquis Ting as if he had been Yao, Shun, or Yu; or rather, the Marquis's throne and office as if one of these had held them.
"Uncle John, y'u talk so so kindly. Yu make me have hope. There seemed really so little for me to live for hope for.... But I'll never be a coward again nor a thoughtless fool. I'll find some good in me or make some and never fail it, come what will. I'll remember your words. I'll believe the future holds wonderful things for me.... I'm only eighteen. Shore all my life won't be lived heah.
There was Sing You the fruit-seller, and Li Ton-ti the wood-carver; Hi Seng left his clients to cry in vain for water; and Wang Yu, the idle pipe-maker, closed his shop of "The Fountain of Beauty," and hung on the shutter the gilt dragon to keep away customers in his absence.
Why, he's where yu' want him to be. Standin' off, keepin' his mouth shut, and lettin' yu' find your own trail out. If he tried to show it to yu', yu'd likely hit him. But shucks! Circumstances have showed me the trail this time, you bet!" And the puncher's face, which had been sombre, grew lively, and he laid a friendly hand on my knee. "The trail's pretty simple," said I. "You bet!
If you goes loco beyond Last Stand Rock, follow th' shadows made before noon that's th' quickest way to th' Pecos. Yu all knows what to do in a sand-storm, so I won't bore you with that. Repeat all I've told yu," he ordered and they complied. "I'm tellin' yu this," continued the foreman, indicating the two auxiliaries, "because yu might get separated from Frenchy.
"Here yu, get mum," ordered Buck to the pair. "When this outfit goes after anything it generally gets it. All in favor of kidnappin' that outfit signify di' same by kickin' Billy," whereupon Bill swore. "Do yu want yore hat?" Asked Buck, turning to Frenchy. "I shore do," answered that individual. "If yu helps us at th' round-up we'll get it for yu. Fifty a month an' grub," offered the foreman.
Dowager lady Chia was, at this time, standing, with agitated heart, under the verandah of the Large Hall waiting for tidings, whilst the two ladies, mesdames Hsing and Wang, Mrs. Yu, Li Wan, lady Feng, Ying Ch'un and her sisters, even up to Mrs. Hsueeh and the rest, were congregated in one place ascertaining what was the news.
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