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"So I say," this from the other three, who were now quite serious. "He'd better not come back here," said the sister Lize. "He never will, probably." "Who employed the widow?" "Nobody knows," said the sister Serene. "Before she left town she had a check cashed, an' it come from Riley Brooke. Some think Martha Vaughn herself knows all about it. Sh-h-h! there goes Sidney Trove."
Think of those noble words of America's general, 'Lafayette, we are here. If we have not letters from our son, still America has come to us. Is not this enough? She will strike the Prussian beast " "Sh-h-h!" "There is no one, I tell you. She will strike the Prussian beast with her mighty arm harder than our poor noble boy could do with his young hand. Is it not so?"
Rooted, he stood as though face to face with an immense dawn, but with eyes that dared not see the light. "Renie, I can't! I Renie, I can't let you do that for me if if I can't let you marry him for me if you don't " "'Sh-h-h!" Mrs. Shongut's voice outside the door, querulous: "Renie!" Silence. "Re-nie!" "Yes, mamma." "Why you got your door locked?" Silence. "Huh?"
He uttered a loud exclamation, so loud, in fact, that the little man came running back in the tent. Even Chester was surprised but for a moment only for the words that escaped Hal were these: "By all that's holy! If it isn't Stubbs!" With two bounds the little man covered the distance to Hal's side and bent over. Quickly he placed a hand across Hal's mouth and whispered: "Sh-h-h. Not so loud!"
They went on softly through the cave and were soon near the place where Tom had entered it from the stable. "Be very quiet now, everybody," said Mr. Brown. "Sh-h-h," said Bunny to his mother and Sue, putting his finger on his lips. "I'll take a peep and see if any one's in sight," said Tom.
"W'y don' you have some oatmeal?" "Tha's right!" shouted Howard. "Side with the kid against me! Tha's all the thanks I get for tryin' to make a man out o' the li'l sissy. Oughta known better'n to marry a woman with a spoiled brat." "Sh-h-h!" whispered Florette. "Don't tell the whole resterunt about your fam'ly troubles."
But even in mine I could save something still if I could be there if I could be there " The sweat broke out on his temples, and Deborah laid her hand on his head. "Sh-h-h," she breathed. He shut his eyes. "Hard to think of anything any more. I can't keep clear." He shuddered with pain. "Fix me for them," he muttered to Baird. "George and his mother. Fix me up give me a couple of minutes clear.
"O God!" he said, finally. "What does it all mean this living and dying " "Right living, Charley, makes dying take care of itself." "God! how he must have died, then! Like a dog alone." "'Sh-h-h, Charley; don't get to thinking." Without raising his head, he reached up to stroke her arm. "Honey, you're shivering." "No-o." "Everything's all right, girl. What's the use me trying to sham it's not.
An hour later someone knocked at an inner door which led to steep side stairs connecting with a side street entrance. Wondering who it was Mary opened it, to find Steve, very flushed and handsome, a flower in his buttonhole yet no hint of rice about him. "Sh-h-h! Not a word out loud! I want to escape. Mrs. O'Valley is waiting round the corner in a cab.
"'Sh-h-h, dearie! Try to tell me slow, dearie, for pa's and ma's sake, so so we can fix it up somehow." "We can't fix it up. The old man 'ain't got the money and and he can't stand it." "For God's sake, Izzy, tell me or I'll go mad! Slow, dearie, so Renie can think and listen and help you. She's with you, darling, and nothing can hurt you. Now begin, Izzy, and go slow.
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