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He looked a full-blooded, plethoric person with reddish-blue veins on his florid face, and a heavy jowl which over-feeding, Robin surmised, had made fullish. He was very neatly dressed in his black overcoat with velvet collar carefully brushed, his natty black tie with its pearl pin, and well-polished boots.
Dale had no real fear of death nor even fear of the gallows. If the worst came, he could face death bravely. He was quite sure of that. Then, as he told himself thousands of times, it was absurd to be so shaken by terror. Terror of what? And he thought, "It is because of the uncertainty. But there too, how absurdly fullish I am; for there is no real uncertainty.
She stood up, her eyes were shining, her face radiant "Fergive me, but I reckoned you was petered out?" "Petered out me?" "Yas; I'm a silly, fullish woman." "No, you ain't. Petered out me? Wal," he glanced at Leveson, "somebody is petered out, but it ain't me. Did ye ever see a man scairt worse'n him? I scairt the wizard some; yas I did, but he could run: this feller can't crawl, I reckon.
And my Howel's as rich and fine as anybody in London, Prince Albert nothing to him, and might be marrying Miss Simpson, my ladyship's doter, if he wasn't so fullish as to be marrying your Netta! 'Now, aunt, it is our turn, if you please, said Owen, as soon as Mrs Jenkins gave him time to speak. 'Will you tell my mother Netta's message?
"Yes, sir almost;" and Dale in the most earnest manner besought his old friend to resist any further attacks from that wicked son. "I do implore you, sir, not to be weak and fullish. Don't take him to your boosum. He's a rat still an' he'll gnaw and devour the little that's left to you, so sure as I sit here." But it was all no use, as he could easily see. Mr.
Poor child! poor silly, thoughtless child, she will never be happy again. 'Indeet to goodness, this is fullish! I shall go, Mrs Prothero. Good morning. Just as Mrs Jenkins was making a kind of curtsey by the bedside Gladys said that she saw Mr Prothero riding up to the house.
"It's a mighty big country, this," Dennis replied austerely; "but I've a notion it ain't quite big enough for Barker an' me. So long!" "I'm comin' up to-morrer, Dennis, to see 'em run the last rapid. Mebbe you was fullish to leave the range?" He marked the interrogation in her tone, and answered, for him, almost roughly "Mebbe I was, but not so fullish as you by a long sight!"
Nick Undrell was still there. He was rigidly looking along the sights of his rifle, hesitating to fire. "You're aimin' at a dead pony, Nick," Kiddie pointed out. "I ain't doin' nothin' so fullish," returned Nick. "It's the skunk lyin' doggo behind it that I'm interested in. Broken Feather's thar, sure; and he ain't dead; he ain't even wounded.
The roar of the train was so great here that he could not catch what the hidden men were saying, but he understood that they were sailors making too much noise and a railway guard rebuking them. "It's nothing to do with me," he said to himself. "Why am I so fullish?" He returned to the compartment, sat with his shoulder to the corridor, and brooded dully and heavily.
And once more he prayed to the God of the Baptists; and then once more doubted. While he was walking home, he thought: "It is too good to be true. Perhaps I'm fullish to pin my trust to it. Do I believe in it all, or do I not?"
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