Diamond Exchange

Diamond Exchange CHAPTER XXI "But why did you wish to act in this generous manner?",Jeremias wagged his head. “I tell you, there’s something to a boy that has the head to plan like that.”,"I no know, massa. She weep! She ill! She make terrible bobbery, dat poo' girl. Massa, come an' see my lil missy dis day.",Elinor was already half asleep when Patricia suddenly sat up with a mirthful gurgle.,To his mother and sister Billy seemed changed. He stuck closer to his books. His teacher told them the boy stood at the head of his class. “Jimmy Dorr may be a rival if he feels like work, which isn’t probable. Jean’s accident last year put her behind, otherwise the boys would have to work much harder if either excelled her.” Yet even these welcome words did not account for some things the mother quietly observed; Billy’s growing promptness, better attention, and memory for matters outside of play. He was more silent, too; and there was less hammering and whistling in the shop.，"You are a prophet of evil, Etwald," said he. "First my poor Maurice, now Miss Dallas."，Billy sat down on a stump. "I don't bear no grudge, do you?" he asked.，"If he only knew the truth," said he, wiping the perspiration from his face, "what would he say? What would he do? He blames me now; would he blame me then?""Have you seen a letter folded in four lying in the road?" shouted Mr Lawrence.

Maurice squirmed uncomfortably. "Now look here, Bill," he protested, "Fatty an' me wasn't any scarter than you was, yourself. Who made the first jump, I want'a know; who?",Billy nodded. "That's what Trigger Finger 'ud do," he said, "an' Trigger Finger, he was always right, Pa.",It was like a giant staircase on the side which would not come against the water. It was about half finished when Bob first got there, but each day it rose steadily higher and higher. Bob examined it all. Each operation he came to fascinated him, and by using his eyes he soon grew to understand much of the method by which results were achieved.,"What was the story, sir?" asked Lucy.,“Peter Stolway, may I arsk you to tell out loud what you was whisperin’?”,CHAPTER I His Fighting,"What a lot of ships!" she cried.,The pursuit lasted longer than was anticipated and was most disastrous to the clean kitchen floor. Betty and Moses themselves got soot on their shoes and their footprints wrought havoc in the spotless kitchen.,"Not until after the body had been stolen," returned Jen, mindful that Isabella had come into the library dry-shod.,“I did hunt the aigs,” lied the unhappy Moses who was afraid he was going to miss something.,Patricia occupied herself getting her tools from the convenient shelf on her own locker, hoping that the talk was not to end there.,Robert, to whom the keys had been entrusted, was severely interrogated by the marquis. He persisted in a simple and uniform declaration of his innocence; but as the marquis believed it impossible that Julia could have escaped without his knowledge, he was ordered into imprisonment till he should confess the fact..