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They wuz good an' wide, an' I lay down keerful. The folks kep' me hitched up nigh an hour 'fore they started; an' larfed why, they all but lay down themselves with larfin'. Say, Boney, if you've got to be hitched to anything that goes on wheels, you've got to be hitched with somefin'." "Go an' jine a circus," said Muldoon, "an' walk on your hind legs.
Boney was represented as a fierce dwarf, with goggle eyes, a huge laced hat and tricolored plume, a crooked sabre, reeking with blood: a little demon revelling in lust, murder, massacre.
Errol put her arm round him as one who comforted a child. "Is that someone crying?" gasped Lucas. "It's that ass Bertie," answered Nap, without stirring so much as an eyelid. "Bertie? Poor old chap! Tell him he mustn't. Tell him I'll hang on a little longer God willing; but only a little longer, Boney, only a little longer."
On one supreme occasion, in order to please the younger girl, Napoleon played at blindman's buff; at such times she ventured to call him "Boney"; and, far from taking offence at this liberty, he delighted in her glee. It is such episodes as these that reveal the softer traits of his character, which the dictates of policy had stunted but not eradicated.
The inquest can be held on the Frenchman. Take him to his own ranch and telegraph the folks in Wisconsin God knows whether they will want to hear. But his mother is there yet. But if half what Barney has told to-night is true it would be better if no one ever heard." In the cottage in Boney Street, one year later, two women were waiting. It was ten o'clock at night.
Make her realise that the dearest wish of my life is her happiness and yours." He reached up a hand to the motionless figure beside him. "Just this one thing, Boney," he pleaded gently. "Remember I came back because of it. It will be my happiness too. I want to feel that all is well between you. God knows I want it more than anything else on earth."
'Every morning Neighbour Boney would muster his multitude of soldiers on the beach, draw 'em up in line, practise 'em in the manoeuvre of embarking, horses and all, till they could do it without a single hitch.
But there were plenty of folk in Paris now who loved Boney; and that was natural when you think of the glory that he had brought them, and how he had never asked his army to go where he would not go himself. They had stern enough faces for us, I can tell you, when we marched in, and we of Adams' brigade were the very first who set foot in the city.
I happen to know what brought you back, and I'm thankful to know it. After all, her happiness comes first with both of us, I guess. That's why I was so almighty pleased to see you in the first place. That's why it won't hurt me any to let her go to you." Nap made a sharp movement and came out of his silence. "Luke, you're mad!" "No, Boney, no! I'm saner than you are.
From "Darby the Blast" for he was now a member of my household I learned the light in which I was regarded by the people, and heard the dissatisfaction they expressed that one who "sarved Boney" should not be ready to head a rising, if need be. Thus was I in a false position on every side.
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