She showed no especial repugnance at the idea, but refused flatly, nevertheless. "I can't do that," she said, dropping down into the hammock and swinging herself with the tip of her foot on the floor."Don't put it in, then. Leave the reservation to-night. You understand me, do you? Now go!"
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The silence, cut by the nervous whispering of the children, became unendurable. "Are you very uneasy about them?" Mrs. Kirby asked.When they went into this last, the ranch hands were already at a long oilcloth-covered table. The Kirbys sat at a smaller one, laid with linen, and the lank wife of one of the men served them all, with the help of a Mexican boy.Landor went back to his command and waited. Another man rode up and joined the two. Ten minutes passed, and the troops grew restless.Cairness pitied Mrs. Kirby sincerely. But if she felt herself an object of sympathy, she did not show it.