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"Well, as I was saying, things began to brighten with us, when one day in came the town-constable with a printed writ in his hand. "He'd found out that we had one more cow than the law allowed, and came after it. "I thought poor marm would a-gone crazy, she felt so bad, and no wonder, with all them children, and she a widder. It came hard, I can tell you.
An' I'd a-gone, like you an' Billy, only Sarah wouldn't hear of it. There's gold down there, too. Quite a bunch is in there prospectin', an' two or three good mines have opened. But that's farther along and in a ways from the coast. You might take a look." Saxon shook her head. "We're not looking for gold but for chickens and a place to grow vegetables.
"I don't much like to speak of it, sir; and, beside yourself, there's not a living man that I'd open my lips to. It's an unpleasant thing to have upon the mind. Mr. Verner, he was here but a few minutes a-gone, and I felt before him like a guilty man that has something to conceal. When I have told it to you, sir, you'll be hard of belief." "Is it connected with Robin?" "No, sir.
If that gust had a-struck us aback our masts would have gone sartin, and it's a toss-up but what we'd a-gone down starn fust afore she'd a-backed round. Next day we giv' old Wiggins a funeral fit for the Emperor of Rooshy, and he well desarved it.
I twigged a sight on him as we run up to you, and I could a-gone on these knees, though I'm not to say one o' the prayin' kind." "But how long would the carrier be in running home?" "Forty-eight hours; p'raps fifty-six with a foul wind." "Well, that man will have a stiff leg for life as it is, and he would have died if you hadn't come across me." "Likely so, sir, but we don't have doctors here.
We trusts in God all mortal men; his godfathers and his godmothers in his baptism. Well, so it is! I'm not afeared o' death! Seeing the little coffin tremble above the hole, he craned his head still further forward. It sank; a smothered sobbing rose. The old butler touched the arm in front of him with shaking fingers. "Don't 'e," he whispered; "he's a-gone to glory."
She thowt as she might be a-wantin' of these after you an' Miss Faith was a-gone, maybe. Mrs. Rollston it is." Each young girl acknowledged the introduction with a pleasant little nod, and a murmured, "Happy to meet you, Mrs. Rollston," so precisely similar in voice and manner that she could not help an amused smile; yet, even here she could detect that same subtle difference in the expression.
He's stood by me many a day as I wanted him, and wanted him bad; but as I'm a living man, that money was never for me; and now he's a-gone and left me in the lurch, and if your grandfather likes he can sell me up, and that's the truth.
Still, I've generally bin able to find something, even after the Ohio boys had bin there." "Well, I think we'd better first go back and see about them rebels that we wounded last night. They may be sufferin' awfully, and we oughtn't to think about something to eat, before doin' what we kin for them." "That's so," assented Shorty. "I'd a-gone back last night, but we was all so dead tired."
Look at this here wice:" and he stretched forth his well-known huge and horny hand: "When I caught that dridful little reptil by the arm, he wriggled like a sniggled eel, so I was forced you see, to grasp him something tighter, and could feel his little arm-bones crack like any chicken's: now then, if his left elbow an't black and blue, though it's a month a-gone and more, I'll eat it.
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