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"That's one on you, Tom," laughed the man named Jack. "Quit roasting the kid. We'd have been mired yet if it hadn't been for him.",“Oh, no. These are some that got smashed and you said we might eat those.”,"The girl is nervously excited," he explained; "and now that she has sustained this shock of Mr. Alymer's death there is no knowing what complications may ensue.","She looks swift even as she lies at rest," said Miss Acton.,CHAPTER XI.—JONAH AND THE WHALE.,Next morning after Captain Acton had read prayers, he stepped on to the lawn to take the air for half an hour before breakfast, and was immediately followed by Lucy, who had hardly reached his side when Miss Acton appeared on the hall steps and carefully descended the broad flight, leaning on her crutch cane and followed by her pug.,"You kin have that Jim Scroggie over to supper tonight, Willium, if you want to.","'A haughty spirit comes before a fall,'" quotes he contemptuously.,"Bill," he said, with his voice dancing, "that's the most effective apology I ever heard. You were sorry to some point.","Indeed, are you?" asks she, raising her pretty brows. Then she smiles involuntarily, and the pink flush in her rounded cheeks grows a shade deeper. Yet she does not lower her eyes, or show the slightest touch of confusion. "I might have guessed it," she says, after a minute's survey of the tall gray-coated young man before her. "You are not a bit like the others down here.",Wilson averted his face and proceeded to straighten the towel on the roller. His action seemed to infuriate the woman.,"Well; there isn't much, is there?" says Mona, pleasantly..