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the bet full story I thought I did see four or five men; but it was too dim to be sure.” She was silent for a while, and then she sat up alive with enthusiasm.,Patricia tossed her bright head scornfully.,"Thank you," replies he stiffly; "yet, after all, I think I should bet upon my own chance.","Why he's callin' us all the mean things he knows, I guess," laughed Billy. "We're in his way, you see.",Howard rode his chestnut saddle-horse “The Kid,” while Nell had “Ladybird.” Moses was not so pious by nature as his mother, and he had flatly refused to have his pinto’s disposition spoiled by giving her such a name as “Hephzibah” his mother’s choice.，"Well, no; but I dare say I shall before I am done with you. Besides, it occurred to me I might as well have a last look at you before consigning my body to the grave."，and so on.，"The groun's, near the gate.""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."

"All right," acquiesced Patricia, meekly. "I didn't mean to be silly. I'm a lot fonder of her than you are, and I was only thinking what fun it would be for her, don't you see?",“I’m sure of that. I want to tell you now how proud I am of the Reclamation Service and the things it’s doing. I’ve looked the Service up and I’ve been to one or two projects that have been finished.”,"I may trust, at all events," continued the money-lender, "now that you are in receipt of money—and if the terms have been correctly named to me they speak very highly in favour of Captain Acton's generosity—that you will give my debt your immediate attention, and that if you cannot pay all, you will pay as much as I have a right to expect from the amount you receive.",Little we fear,"Now we can go on our spree with clear minds," said Judith, as they sat down to breakfast in the sunny sitting-room. "It's a perfect day and Rockham will look too sweet for anything.",“You may chop my head off if it isn’t,” said Johnny. “And your little sisters are to come, too; only they must have their faces washed.”,Mr. Wopp and Moses, who had hurried to the upper storey to escape the recital of the ketchup episode, now came heavily down the stairs, their task at last finished.,Though these and similar remarks seemed rather personal no resentment was felt by anybody.,“It’s a hurry-up order for more,” Billy amended.,"Oh, we'll soon stand her up again," said Captain Acton. "Did you recognise the Aurora?",He drops her arm, and looks as though he is prepared to drop her acquaintance also, at a moment's notice.,"No, sir," she said..