Feeling that he had been received with distinguished marks of attention, Steve strolled away with his topknot higher than ever, and Prince Charlie pranced across the room, saying in a free and easy tone
"Beg pardon, ma'am; never should have guessed it." And Charlie went off with a laugh, glad to have struck a spark out of his meek cousin.
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Charlie," she said, "you have asked me to marry you six times."
"One day we ran into Tough Bill in the Place, and he asked Charlie for the papers he'd given him."
"`You'd better come and take them if you want them,' says Charlie.
"EXCEPT Gilbert -- AND Charlie Sloane," said Diana, imitating Anne's italics and slyness.
"Charlie Sloane will be a great comfort, of course," agreed Anne sarcastically; whereupon both those irresponsible damsels laughed.
Then it was that Carmack, his brother-in-law, Skookum Jim, and Cultus Charlie, another Indian, arrived in a canoe at Forty Mile, went straight to the gold commissioner, and recorded three claims and a discovery claim on Bonanza Creek.
I've took out forty-five ounces already.' And I went along, Skookum Jim and Cultus Charlie, too.
Charlie Sloane dared Arty Gillis to jump over it, and Arty did because he wouldn't take a dare.
Charlie Sloane says that his grandmother saw his grandfather driving home the cows one night after he'd been buried for a year.
'And what if she should have slipped in clambering among them,' I reflected, 'and been killed, or broken some of her bones?' My suspense was truly painful; and, at first, it gave me delightful relief to observe, in hurrying by the farmhouse,
Charlie, the fiercest of the pointers, lying under a window, with swelled head and bleeding ear.