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The man's voice was a revelation full of an unutterable hurt, like the cry of some dumb wounded thing. And Joel read it again, choking with indignation now at every word. "Thank ye, neighbor. I'll trouble you to write a line thankin' him; that's all." He got up heavily, staggering a little as he crossed the floor, and went out into the yellow sunlight.
"It takes two to make a bargain," she replied, seriously. "I've my part. Good-by." Wade watched her lithe stride, and as she drew away the restraint he had put upon himself loosened. When she disappeared his feeling burst all bounds. Dragging the dogs inside, he closed the door. Then, like one broken and spent, he fell face against the wall, with the hoarsely whispered words, "I'm thankin' God!"
He was in the midst of his rush after one of the chipped coins. The other cowpuncher received his weapon almost with reverence. "I'm thankin' you for the loan," said Dan, "an here's hopin' you always have luck with the gun." "Luck?" said the other. "I sure will have luck with it.
You'll need un both t' sail the skiff." "I'm thankin' you, Davy, lad," said he. "'Tis kind o' you t' spare them." "An' I'm wishin' you well." He picked at a thread in his cap. "No," he persisted, doggedly, "she were so wonderful scared o' hell she fair couldn't come t' harm. I brung her up too well for that.
Geoffrey," said she, "I ain't good at thankin' folks, no, I ain't much on gratitood never having had much to gratify over but them candies is goin' to be consoomed slow an' reverent and in a proper sperrit o' gratitood. And now if you're ready to eat your supper, your supper's a-waitin' to be ate!"
"An' are y'u Bill Isbel?" "All thet's left of me. But I'm thankin' God somebody come even a Jorth." Ellen knelt beside him and examined the wound in his abdomen. A heavy bullet had indeed, as Colter had avowed, torn clear through his middle. Even if he had not sustained other serious injury from the fall over the cliff, that terrible bullet wound meant death very shortly. Ellen shuddered.
He does it without thinking, I replied. 'Thankin' you for the complimint, sorr, ut may be so. But I'm doubtful whether you mint ut for a complimint. Hear now; I sat there wid Judy on my knee tellin' me all manner av nonsinse an' only sayin' "yes" an' "no," when I'd much better ha' kept tongue betune teeth. An' that was not an hour afther I had left Dinah! What I was thinkin' av I cannot say.
So, thankin' you, sir, for your lift and your good heart to us, we'll just foot it along o'er t' moor." Dixon Mallaby shook hands with him; the girl, as she drew away from Sam Bunce's arm, bobbed the parson a curtsey.
Nobody to care for you, indade, with the gentry comin' every day to inquire for you, the praste a readin' his prayers in this very room, and the foine gintleman who was on the ship a sittin' down stairs three mortal hours waitin' to know if you waked up dead or alive, and thankin' God when it was alive I told him you was." "Who, Jennie? What gentleman?" Bessie asked. "Mr.
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