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There was something wholesome and prosaic too about this homely equipage, which was inexpressibly soothing to a mind so worn by successive terrors. "Here's some one a-comin'," cried Stevens. "Clear out from here it's the governor's orders." "Oh, do let me stay and say one word to the lady!" Stevens seized his great stick savagely.
"Never you mind, honey, never you mind. Don't you git too peart. It's a-comin'. Mind I tell you, it's a-comin'." It did come, too. It was a Tuesday that we had that talk. Well, after dinner Friday we was laying around in the grass at the upper end of the ridge, and got out of tobacco. I went to the cavern to get some, and found a rattlesnake in there.
Couldn't help a-methinkin' to myself several times. It duz seem to me that there hain't a question a-comin' up before that Conference that is harder to tackle than this plasterin' and the conundrum that is up before us Jonesville wimmen how to raise 300 dollars out of nuthin', and to make peace in a meetin' house where anarky is now rainin' down.
I'll jist ax en to come to tea next Sunday, and I'll tell en as a very nice body what we've lately got acquainted wi' be a' a-comin' to tea, too; an' I'll jist set down, careless-like, as she have got a bank-book what is worth seein'. Jist no more nor that. "'Ah, that 'ud maybe do very well, says Domeny, and we did put our heads together, and between us the letter was wrote.
It 'pears toler'ble weak-kneed in its mind, wunst in a while. But ef it wants ter fool money away, it's mighty well able ter afford sech. It hev got a power o' ways a-comin' at money, we all know that, we all know that." He said this with a gloomy inflection and a downward look that might have implied a liability for taxes beyond his willingness to pay.
She called out, "No more of these sad tones," and struck up "The Year of Jubilo," and we all shouted till the walls shook with the exultant words: Ol' massa run ha-ha! De darkies stay, ho-ho! It must be now is the kingdom a-comin' In the year of Jubilo.
"Wot's England a-comin' to? that's wot I wants to know," he was saying; "wot's England a-comin' to when thievin' robbers can come a-walkin' in on you a-stealin' a pint o' your best ale out o' your very own tankard under your very own nose wot's it a-comin' to?" "Ah!" nodded the others solemnly, "that's it, Joel wot?"
Cleek, oh, thank God!" she flung back with all the rapture a human voice could contain. "Come on, come on! I've got him got that man Merode, and the boy is safe, the boy is safe! Come on! come on! come on!" "We're a-comin', miss, you gamble on that and the lightnin's a fool to us!" shouted Dollops in reply. "Let her have it, Gov'nor! Bust the bloomin' tank.
Then, turning to Waymark: "If you are good, you may bring out a chair and smoke a cigar here after dinner." They had just began to eat, when footsteps were heard coining up the stairs. "Oh bother!" exclaimed Sally. "There's some one else a-comin', s'nough." There was. The door opened, and two gentlemen walked in.
"Captain Kittridge, will you stop such ridiculous talk?" said his helpmeet; "and jist carry this 'ere basket of cold chicken down to the landin' agin the Pennels come round in the boat; and you must step spry, for there's two more baskets a-comin'."
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