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"So we be," said Beale, and kissed 'Melia for the first time. "We got all our courtin' to do now. See? I might a-picked an' choosed," he added reflectively, "but there I dare say I might a-done worse." 'Melia blushed with pleasure at the compliment, and went on with the dusting.
Nobody was thinking nothing about Hart's nephew till he let off a yell and sung out: "That's the man held the coach up! Get a bead on him with your guns!" And he got his own gun out and like enough would a-done some fool thing with it if Santa Fé Charley, who was right by him, hadn't smacked him and jerked it out of his hand.
If I'd a-done right when I was a boy I'd be sittin' right up there with the rest o' that bunch o' people this minute. But I was bound to have my fling, and sow my wild oats and now I can have the pleasure of harvestin' my crop. It ought to be thistles, for if ever there was a jackass that same was Jim Bolivar."
"Every business!" There was something in the boy's face that made the man move his hand toward a paper weight. "She's fired because she wouldn't do your dirty work. Look at this!" he had straightened out the crumpled sheet now: "Look at it! That's your work! ain't a dog would a-done it, let alone a man. Do you know what's happened? That girl's mother went crazy when she saw that picture!
Fogarty go on 'Oh, the goodness of him!" and she mimicked the good woman's dialect. "'If Tod'd been his own child he couldn't a-done more for him. That's the way she talks. I heard, doctor, ye never left him till daylight. You're a wonder." The doctor touched his hat and drove on. Miss Gossaway's sharp, rasping voice and incisive manner of speaking grated upon him.
So on the quiet you get it all made over, back to old Dan's daughter; and take a sneak into the hazelbrush when she turns you down! Say, you know what I'd a-done?" "No." "I'd a-held on to the mine and told the girl how much it was bringin' in that's my system. Then I'd a-got the mine and the girl both, maybe!" "Maybe." "Well, that's the system I'd a-played.
"What?" cried the colonel. "An' told 'em he knew their man, an' would help find him," continued Weasel. "They offered him the thousand dollars " "Oh, Lord! oh, Lord!" groaned the colonel; "who's a feller to trust in this world! The idee of Jim goin' back on a pardner fur a thousand! I wouldn't hev b'lieved he'd a-done it fur a million!"
One thing we was sartin sure of, and that was that they'd left Lobelia aboard on purpose. We knew mighty well that's what we'd a-done. "What puzzled us most was what relation Lobelia was to the skipper. She wa'n't his wife, 'cause he'd said so, and she didn't look enough like him to be his mother or sister.
"And there ain't a woman in the Mile End Road as 'ud a-done it cheaper, with bread at fourpence threefarden a quartern and landlords clamburin' for rent every Monday morning almost afore the sun's up and folks draggin' and slidderin' on till their shoes is only fit to throw after brides and Christmas comin' and sevenpence a week for schoolin'!" Peter winced under the last item.
"And him sailing her in from Blackhead close round the Manacles, in half a capful o' wind an' the tides lookin' fifty ways for Sunday! That's what he've a-done, for the weather lifted while we was hauling trammel anyways east of south a man could see clear for three mile and more, an' not a vessel in sight there.
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