The Luck of Roaring Camp: And Other Tales with Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers, المجلد 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1906 - 444 من الصفحات |
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ain't Aramis Aristides asked beside Boy Chief cabin CHAPTER cheek child Chitterlings Clytemnestra Clytie commander D'Artagnan dark door drew Duchess expressman eyes face Fagg Father José feet fell figure fire gazed Genevra girl glance gravely Gray gulch hair Hamlin hand Haunted head heard heart Ingomar Jack Jenkins John Jenkins Judge knew Lady laughed lips looked Lothaw Luck M'liss master McSnagley Miggles Miss Mary morning Morpher mother Mother Shipton mountain mysterious Natty Bumpo never night Oakhurst Padre passed perhaps Périgord pine Poker Flat Porthos Pultneyville Red Mountain returned road Roaring Camp Sedilia seemed silence slowly smile Smith's Pocket stokh stood story strange stranger Stumpy suddenly tell Tennessee Tennessee's Partner thing thought tion took tree Tryan turned voice walked wall wind window Wingdam woman young Yuba Bill
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الصفحة 23 - That night the storm reached its greatest fury, and, rending asunder the protecting pines, invaded the very hut. Toward morning they found themselves unable to feed the fire, which gradually died away. As the embers slowly blackened, the Duchess crept closer to Piney, and broke the silence of many hours : " Piney, can you pray ? " "No, dear,
الصفحة 22 - And yet no one complained. The lovers turned from the dreary prospect and looked into each other's eyes, and were happy. Mr. Oakhurst settled himself coolly to the losing game before him. The Duchess, more cheerful than she had been, assumed the care of Piney. Only Mother Shipton — once the strongest of the party — seemed to sicken and fade. At midnight on the tenth day she called Oakhurst to her side. "I'm going," she said, in a voice of querulous weakness, "but don't say anything about it....
الصفحة 12 - It had lately suffered the loss of several thousand dollars, two valuable horses, and a prominent citizen. It was experiencing a spasm of virtuous reaction, quite as lawless and ungovernable as any of the acts that had provoked it. A secret committee had determined to rid the town of all improper persons. This was done permanently in regard...
الصفحة 6 - A silence followed Stumpy's speech. To the credit of all humorists be it said, that the first man to acknowledge its justice was the satirist thus stopped of his fun. "But," said Stumpy, quickly following up his advantage, "we're here for a christening, and we'll have it.
الصفحة 40 - Peace. Tennessee's Partner took the loss of his wife simply and seriously, as was his fashion. But to everybody's surprise, when Tennessee one day returned from Marysville without his partner's wife, — she having smiled and retreated with somebody else, — Tennessee's Partner was the first man to shake his hand and greet him with affection. The boys who had gathered in the canon to see the shooting were naturally indignant. Their indignation might have found vent in sarcasm but for a certain look...
الصفحة 20 - Simson, somehow managed to take upon himself the greater part of that duty. He excused himself to the Innocent, by saying that he had "often been a week without sleep.
الصفحة 13 - Flat was reached, the leader spoke briefly and to the point. The exiles were forbidden to return at the peril of their lives. As the escort disappeared, their pent-up feelings found vent in a few hysterical tears from the Duchess, some bad language from Mother Shipton, and a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy. The philosophic Oakhurst alone remained silent. He listened calmly to Mother Shipton's desire to cut somebody's heart out, to the repeated statements of the Duchess that she would...
الصفحة 21 - ... the rocky shores to which the castaways still clung. Through the marvellously clear air the smoke of the pastoral village of Poker Flat rose miles away. Mother Shipton saw it, and from a remote pinnacle of her rocky fastness, hurled in that direction a final malediction. It was her last vituperative attempt, and...
الصفحة 16 - ... Innocent delivered rapidly, while Piney, a stout, comely damsel of fifteen, emerged from behind the pinetree, where she had been blushing unseen, and rode to the side of her lover. Mr. Oakhurst seldom troubled himself with sentiment, still less with propriety; but he had a vague idea that the situation was not fortunate. He retained, however, his presence of mind sufficiently to kick Uncle Billy, who was about to say something, and Uncle Billy was sober enough to recognize in Mr.
الصفحة 19 - Flat," said Piney. The Duchess turned away sharply to conceal something that reddened her cheeks through its professional tint, and Mother Shipton requested Piney not to " chatter." But when Mr. Oakhurst returned from a weary search for the trail, he heard the sound of happy laughter echoed from the rocks. He stopped in some alarm, and his thoughts first naturally reverted to the...