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The description is graphic, certainly.,"Hush!" she cautioned, slipping an absent hand into Judith's quivering palm. "Bruce is talking. Oh, isn't he dear, to say nice things of each of us. It's like commencement time, Ju, isn't it? All the good little girls get prizes, but I wish he wouldn't go back to that honorable mention of mine. I feel like an impostor.",“Nothing much,” was the answer. “Fooling ’round the Canyon a little.”,It was customary on board the Minorca, and doubtless in many other ships carrying merchandise, for the mate to dine in the cabin[Pg 262] with the captain in his watch below, that is to say, when he had no duty on deck. The second mate kept a look-out, and when the chief mate was done, the second went below to dinner. If the mate had the watch during the dinner-hour, he remained on deck until he was relieved by the captain.,This is half a question; and Geoffrey, answering it from his heart, sinks even deeper into the mire.,"Or like Nolly's story that he declines telling me," says Violet, with a laugh.,"Ho, Bill!" cried Maurice. "Bringin' bay Thomas up to the stable fer winter, eh? Gee! Jim, look at that horse; did you ever see such a change in anythin' in your life?","No, dat only drib away bad debbils. But you scratch de skin with one leetle bit of it, and you die, die, die!",“Gosh! Wisht Betty was here right this minute. Mebbe I’m dyin’. Hope nobody starts twangin’ a harp. My nose is worser’n ever!”,"Miss Dallas, I know no more than you do; but he evidently desires to make a clean breast of this whole miserable business.","You bet!" came the spontaneous answer.,“I do not need to say that you must be kind to the horse and do exactly as Carlstrom says.”.