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"'The curtains surrounding the berth," Grandmother repeated, in a wavering voice. "It's printed wrong. They've got it b-e-r-t-h." "Seems to me," murmured Matilda, "that a woman who " "Matilda!" interrupted Grandmother, imperiously. For a moment the silence was awkward. "Unmarried women ain't got any call to be thinkin' about such things, let alone speakin' of 'em.
"N-n-o," hesitated Charley, "I'm having a great time, but I was thinking of Dad and Mother, and how badly they will feel." "Don't be thinkin' o' that now. Think how glad you'll make they when you goes back." Skipper Zeb laughed heartily. "I'm just laughin' at the way they'll be takin' on then! They'll be just maulin' you to pieces, they'll be so glad! Think o' that now.
"Throth, Tom," continued his loving wife, "let what will happen, it's the last journey ever we'll let you take from us. Ever an' ever, there we wor thinkin' an' thinkin' a thousand things about you. At one time that something happened you; then that you fell sick an' had none but strangers about you. Throth we won't; let what will happen, you must stay wid vis."
He flashed me one of his pale, genial smiles. "I'm thinkin' of it, Homer, soon's I get some money in. Next week, mebbe. There's a man in N'York that mebbe can be int'rested in one of my inventions, Roland Barnette says. Mebbe he'd be willin' to put a little money in it, Roland says, and of course if he does, I'll be able to stock up considerable." I sighed covertly for him.
"I sat a-waitin' a long time, which gave me a good chance to look around at things. The room was real handsome, and I took a peep at the window fastenin's and the lay of the doors, thinkin' the knowledge might come in handy some time. Right in front of me on a table was a little yellow mouse, and it struck me as I looked at it that that must be gold.
"No, it wasn't Columbus," returned Swinton, in a sharp tone, "an' you needn't speak as if we was all deaf, Blazer. It was John Cabot I was thinkin' of, who, with his son Sebastian, discovered land a long way to the nor'ard o' Columbus's track. They called it Newfoundland. Well, as I was sayin', we must be a long way nearer to that land than to Norway, an' it will be far easier to reach it.
"The doctor's thar, an' he said that if the bullet had 'a' gone a leetle furder down hit would 'a' killed him." "Whar's Mavis?" Again the two old people looked confused, for it was plain that Jason did not know all that had happened. "I hain't seed her, but somebody said she went by hyeh on her way home about an hour ago. I was thinkin' about goin' up thar right now."
He's had four drinks o' whiskey, and took a bottle with him. He's been thinkin' a whole heap, too. Guess he's goin' on a sky-high drunk." And a shrewish voice called back to him in a tone of feminine spleen. "Guess it's that Marsham gal," it said conclusively. A woman's instinct is a wonderful thing. Meanwhile Jim was riding across the market-place. Half-way across he saw Smallbones.
I'd put his watch away where he couldn't find it and and maybe swap it with one of the hands for a half a pint. But I let on to be thinkin' for a while, until I brightened up as if the idea just hit me. "It wasn't exactly fair, I'll admit. It wasn't what either of us would call a straight play, but but oh, I'd been watching him, just as I've told you.
Sullivan; he's that important to the chief, is Dan, they can't get on without him to-day at all." "Then bad luck, I say, to the chief! Look at the grand supper I'm after fixin' for Dan!" "Oh, Mary Mrs. Sullivan, don't be speakin' disrespectful' of the chief, an' him thinkin' so highly of Dan!" Mary's blue eyes flashed. "An' why wouldn't he!
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