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There's lots of rocky dens on the mountain side where we could shelter under a granite ledge, and be safer than we'd be here in tent. Or we might come a-near our old log camp. I guess, if that's standing yet, you'd like to see it. Say! we'll leave it to Cyrus. He's boss, ain't he?"
It was pathetic, and yet disgusting, to see the abject joy of the poor creature. 'Well, thought Lancelot, 'if he deserves to be wretched, so do I why, therefore, if we are one as bad as the other, should I not make his wretchedness a little less for the time being? 'I waint come a-near the water.
Not unless 'ee got Sally to tie 'im to the dresser with ropes so as 'ee couldn't go a-near the "Spotted Deer" no more! She laughed like a merry child at her own witticism, and John relished it too, though he was not in a laughing mood. 'Why' continued Bessie with enthusiasm, 'it was Muster Drew as said to me the other afternoon, as we was walkin 'ome from the churchyard, says 'ee, "Mrs.
It's the the Gentlemen, if you'll only pull ahead, and let me heave you the headline, you won't have to come a-near the raft please do." "Set her back, John, set her back!" says one. They backed water. "Keep away, boy keep to looard. Confound it, I just expect the wind has blowed it to us. Your pap's got the small-pox, and you know it precious well. Why didn't you come out and say so?
"He knew 'ee could never ha' done it not what you've done out o' your wages. Not unless 'ee got Sally to tie 'im to the dresser with ropes so as 'ee couldn't go a-near the Spotted Deer no more!" She laughed like a merry child at her own witticism, and John relished it too, though he was not in a laughing mood.
He stretched himself a-near, put out his hand to touch his sabre and revolver, drew his caped great-coat over him, moved once to free his back of a root or pebble, glanced languidly at a single struggling star, thought for an instant of his far-away mother, turned his head with a sigh, and slept.
Don't you know as how they locks up the Queen now-a-days, and never lets a poor soul come a-near her, lest she should hear the truth of all their iniquities?
Aldous was already upstairs. "Which room?" he asked of a group of women crying and cowering on the first landing for all sounds from above had ceased. "Third floor front," cried one of them. "We all of us begged and implored of that young person, sir, not to go a-near him! Didn't we, Betsy? didn't we, Doll?" Aldous ran up. On the third floor, the door of the front room was open.
Nobody since his time has been a-near it; they think he haunts the pit, it seems, so every body gives it a wide berth, both night and day. We shall see, however, and pretty soon, I hope, whether that notion can not be got over. Why, in six months' time we ought to have a hundred men at work here." "Let us hope so. But in the mean time you say nobody comes here even in the daytime, eh?" "Never.
"How dare you touch me!" she cried and her eyes were full of fury. "Sheila!" "Don't lay a finger on me ... you ... you coward you! You were afeard to stop it, an' you run away, cryin' like a wee ba!" He tried to come to her again, but she shrunk away from him. "Don't come a-near me," she shouted at him. "I couldn't thole you near me. I'd be sick!..."
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