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And an oath rose to his lips, but from very feebleness died away without expression. Why had he ever come to Smith's Pocket? If he had not been guided by that hell-cat, this would not have happened. What if he were to tell all he knew? What if he should accuse her? But would they be willing to give up the bird they had already caught?
"Ma Bogart cussed her out all morning, did she? Jumped her neck, eh? Ma certainly is one hell-cat." "Yes, you know how she is; so vicious." "Oh no, her best style ain't her viciousness. What she pulls in our store is to come in smiling with Christian Fortitude and keep a clerk busy for one hour while she picks out half a dozen fourpenny nails. I remember one time " "Sam!" Carol was uneasy.
Thought you'd give Bully West the slip, you'n' that li'l' hell-cat. Talk about Porcupine Creek, eh? Tried to send me mushin' over there while you'n' her " What the fellow said sent a hot wave creeping over the girl's face to the roots of her hair. The gambler did not speak, but his eyes, filmed and wary, never lifted from the other's bloated face. Hell's hinges, Bully West's no fool!
That rudimentary and ingenuous youth, in fact, became more and more offensive in his approaches, until finally I turned on him. "Are you trying to make love to me?" I demanded. "The surest thing you know," he said with a rather moonish smile. "Then let me tell you something," I hissed out at him, with my nose within six inches of his, "I'm a high-strung hell-cat, I am.
His large grave eyes bathed us in a friendly regard; his full lips of an orator parted with leisurely and promising unction. I awaited courtly phrases, richly rounded periods. "A regular hell-cat what he is!" Thus vocalized the able lips. Jimmie Time glowed modestly. "Show him how I can shoot," said he.
"We are discovered, I'm afraid!" exclaimed Vanslyperken. "Holy father Abraham!" exclaimed the Jew, starting back. "But tell me vy you shay sho." "A woman told me this night that she knew why I came to your house that I was in her power." "Vat woman?" "A hell-cat, who hates me as she does the devil." "A hell-cat vould not hate de divil," slowly observed the Jew.
"Our shop is not open to-day my good friends: the account can stand over; far be it from me to press the poor." "Master Diggs," said a Hell-cat, "canst thou tell us the price of bacon to-day?" "Well, good bacon," said the elder Diggs willing to humour them, "may be eightpence a-pound." "Thou are wrong Master Diggs," said the Hell-cat, "'tis fourpence and long credit.
"It is irritating," and Duchesne slipped his arm through mine; "but we must take things as they come. Remember we have to deal not only with the spectral lumber left here by your scarlet aunt, but as well with the supererogatory curse of that hell-cat Torrevieja. Come on! let's get inside before the hour arrives for the sheeted dead to squeak and gibber in these lonely halls.
"We are discovered, I'm afraid!" exclaimed Vanslyperken. "Holy father Abraham!" exclaimed the Jew, starting back. "But tell me vy you shay sho." "A woman told me this night that she knew why I came to your house that I was in her power." "Vat woman?" "A hell-cat, who hates me as she does the devil." "A hell-cat vould not hate de divil," slowly observed the Jew.
But she was silent; she never knew what to say when assailed by the older woman's tongue. She just wrote Maurice, helplessly, that she was going abroad. He was panic-stricken. Going abroad? Uncle Henry's ancient dame was a she-devil, to carry her off! Then, in the midst of his anger, he recognized his opportunity: "The hell-cat has done me a good turn, I do believe! I'll get her! Bless the woman!
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