The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other SketchesHoughton, Mifflin, 1871 - 256 من الصفحات |
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... returned . Bets were freely offered and taken regarding the result . Three to five that " Sal would get through with it " ; even , that the child would survive ; side bets as to the sex and complexion of the coming stranger . In the ...
... returned . Bets were freely offered and taken regarding the result . Three to five that " Sal would get through with it " ; even , that the child would survive ; side bets as to the sex and complexion of the coming stranger . In the ...
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... returned and knocked at the door . It was opened by Stumpy . " How goes it ? " said Kentuck , looking past Stumpy toward the candle - box . " All serene , " replied Stumpy . " Anything up ? " " Nothing . " There was a pause - an ...
... returned and knocked at the door . It was opened by Stumpy . " How goes it ? " said Kentuck , looking past Stumpy toward the candle - box . " All serene , " replied Stumpy . " Anything up ? " " Nothing . " There was a pause - an ...
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... returning with sad hearts , when a shout from the bank recalled them . It was a relief - boat from down the river . They had picked up , they said , a man and an infant , nearly exhausted , about two miles below . Did anybody know them ...
... returning with sad hearts , when a shout from the bank recalled them . It was a relief - boat from down the river . They had picked up , they said , a man and an infant , nearly exhausted , about two miles below . Did anybody know them ...
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... returned to his pocket the handkerchief with which he had been whipping away the red dust of Poker Flat from his neat boots , and quietly discharged his mind of any further conjecture . 66 In point of fact , Poker Flat was after some ...
... returned to his pocket the handkerchief with which he had been whipping away the red dust of Poker Flat from his neat boots , and quietly discharged his mind of any further conjecture . 66 In point of fact , Poker Flat was after some ...
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... returned to the party , he found them seated by a fire - for the air had grown strangely chill and the sky overcast in apparently amicable conversation . Piney was actually talking in an impulsive , girlish fashion to the Duchess , who ...
... returned to the party , he found them seated by a fire - for the air had grown strangely chill and the sky overcast in apparently amicable conversation . Piney was actually talking in an impulsive , girlish fashion to the Duchess , who ...
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الصفحة 30 - Tom 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." "Doing what?" asked Tom. "Poker!" replied Oakhurst, sententiously ; " when a man gets a streak of luck, — nigger-luck, — he don't get tired. The luck gives in first. Luck," continued the gambler, reflectively,
الصفحة 57 - At that place he was attracted by a young person who waited upon the table at the hotel where he took his meals. One morning he said something to her which caused her to smile not unkindly, to somewhat coquettishly break a plate of toast over his upturned, serious, simple face, and to retreat to the kitchen. He followed her, and emerged a few moments later, covered with more toast and victory. That day week they were married by a justice of the peace, and returned to Poker Flat. I am aware that something...
الصفحة 28 - ... had accidentally stampeded the animals. He dropped a warning to the Duchess and Mother Shipton, who of course knew the facts of their associate's defection. "They'll find out the truth about us all when they find out anything," he added significantly, " and there's no good frightening them now.
الصفحة 33 - m going," she said, in a voice of querulous weakness, "but don't say anything about it. Don't waken the kids. Take the bundle from under my head, and open it." Mr. Oakhurst did so. It contained Mother Shipton's rations for the last week, untouched. " Give 'em to the child," she said, pointing to the sleeping Piney.
الصفحة 34 - There's one chance in a hundred to save her yet," he said, pointing to Piney; "but it's there," he added, pointing toward Poker Flat. " If you can reach there in two days she's safe." "And you?" asked Tom Simson. "I'll stay here," was the curt reply. The lovers parted with a long embrace. " You are not going, too ? " said the Duchess, as she saw Mr. Oakhurst apparently waiting to accompany him. " AS far as the canon,
الصفحة 4 - ... hand ; the best shot had but one eye. Such was the physical aspect of the men that were dispersed around the cabin. The camp lay in a triangular valley, between two hills and a river. The only outlet was a steep trail over the summit of a hill that faced the cabin, now illuminated by the rising moon.
الصفحة 68 - A few paces from the cabin there was a rough enclosure, which, in the brief days of Tennessee's Partner's matrimonial felicity, had been used as a garden, but was now overgrown with fern. As we approached it we were surprised to find that what we had taken for a recent attempt at cultivation was the broken soil about an open grave. The cart was halted before the enclosure; and rejecting the offers of assistance with the same air of simple self-reliance he had displayed throughout, Tennessee's Partner...
الصفحة 71 - There, now, steady, Jinny, steady, old girl. How dark it is! Look out for the ruts, and look out for him, too, old gal. Sometimes, you know, when he's blind drunk, he drops down right in the trail. Keep on straight up to the pine on the top of the hill. Thar! I told you so! — thar he is — coming this way, too — all by himself, sober, and his face a-shining. Tennessee! Pardner!
الصفحة 15 - Howbeit, whether creeping over the pine boughs or lying lazily on his back blinking at the leaves above him, to him the birds sang, the squirrels chattered, and the flowers bloomed. Nature was his nurse and playfellow. For him she would let slip between the leaves golden shafts of sunlight that fell just within his grasp; she would...
الصفحة 10 - But these were felt to be vague and unsatisfactory, and were at last dismissed under another influence. Gamblers and adventurers are generally superstitious, and Oakhurst one day declared that the baby had brought "the luck