"D'ye mean to say ye don't know ?" "How could I?
They must have all left the house as soon as it began.

I was talking to--to M.l'Hommadieu, and he suddenly left." The man brought his face angrily down within an inch of her own.

"D'ye mean to say that them d----d French half-breeds stampeded and left yer there alone ?" She was still too much stupefied by the reaction to fully comprehend his meaning, and repeated feebly with her smile still faintly lingering: "But you don't tell me WHAT it was ?" "An earthquake," said the man, roughly, "and if it had lasted ten seconds longer it would have shook the whole shanty down and left you under it.

Yer kin tell that to them, if they don't know it, but from the way they made tracks to the fields, I reckon they did.

They're coming now." Without another word he turned away half surlily, half defiantly, passing scarce fifty yards away Mrs.Randolph and her daughter, who were hastening towards their guest.
"Oh, here you are!" said Mrs.Randolph, with the nearest approach to effusion that Rose had yet seen in her manner.