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It seemed an age before she heard him come in. Lorry undressed in the dark. As he went to bed he grinned. "And the worst of it is," he soliloquized, "she'll think I did it because she asked me to let him go. Guess I been steppin' on my foot the whole dog-gone day." Spring Lamb Mrs. Adams had decided to have roast spring lamb for dinner that evening.
Captain wants you brought before him right after chow, and that's coming along soon as you can get into your pants. You better be steppin'." "Aw, what's he want to see me for?" Johnny growled. It would be much pleasanter to go back to his dream of Mary V. "Why, to shoot you, stupid. Whadda yuh think?"
"Oh, well, well, it makes no maxim between you an' me, at all, at all; but the Lord mark you to grace, any how; it's a dacent name sure enough, only if yer mother was livin', it's herself 'ud be the proud woman, an' well she might, to see such a clane, promisin' son steppin' home to her from Lough Derg."
Inside was a narrow floor and walls and vault o' brick; we could not see what was in it, for 'twas dark as pick. "When my aunt had lighted the candle, the squire held it up and stept in. "My aunt stood on tiptoe tryin' to look over his shouther, and I did na see nout. "'Ha! ha! says the squire, steppin' backward. 'What's that? Gi' ma the poker quick! says he to my aunt.
Mony ane has come an' gane Sin' the time there was but ane: Ane was great an' strong, an' rent Rocks an' mountains as it went Afore the Lord, his trumpeter, Waukin' up the prophet's ear; Ane was like a steppin' soun' I' the mulberry taps abune; Them the Lord's ain steps did swing, Walkin' on afore his king; Ane lay doon like scoldit pup At his feet an' gatna up, Whan the word the maister spak Drave the wull-cat billows back; Ane gaed frae his lips, an' dang To the earth the sodger thrang; Ane comes frae his hert to mine, Ilka day, to mak it fine.
It was aisy to see he'd ha' gone to the Well of the World's End after her, let alone steppin' up from the Town, if he's spared to get his health. Ay, he'll be comin' back for her one of these fine days, sure enough, plase God." But the fulfilment of her confident prediction looked several degrees more doubtful in the light of one of the two pieces of news which Mrs.
I couldn't make out why he should choke over it, for I'd heard him say distinctly he was livin' there. But it was amazin' what an effect the night air had on his conversation works. Seemed to dry 'em up. "Interested in antiques, are you?" says I, sort of folksy. "Somewhat," says Clyde, steppin' out brisk.
'But 'pears to me we've got to be thinking of going home. The trunks o' the trees are reddening, which tells us the sun's slantin'; and these little shavers must be fed and bedded before sundown. Come, musters, rouse yourselves; we must be steppin' Northbourne way!
Seems like we was the Isrilites a-crossin' the Red Sea, an' the fust of us is jest steppin' on de sho'. Lordy, Miss Burford, ma'am, I don't know how I'se gwine to stan' dat great day when we is th'ough, shore enuff. Wash'n'ton city ain't gwine be big enuff to hol' me." "It will be a great day, Uncle Matthew," replied Miss Burford, with elated decorum of manner.
Ain’t no army gonna pull ’em out an’ make ’em fight white-man style. "Don Cazar—he goes huntin’ ’em when they’ve come botherin’ him an’ does it right. But he knows you think Injun, you live Injun, you eat Injun, you smell Injun when you do. They don’t leave no more trail than an ant steppin’ high, ’less they want you should foller them into a nice ambush as they has all figgered out.
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