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And then she came back and took her seat, as composed as if I had never awakened those sad thoughts. Poor thing! I knew what was passing in her mind, as well as if those eloquent tears had not touched my heart. Somehow or another, it appears to me, like a stumblin' horse, I am always a-striking my foot agin some stone, or stump, or root, that any fellow might see with half an eye.
Her cheek was like a flower, But her tongue was like a pedler's clock, 'Twas a-striking every hour. "And wasn't she the gal for me, And wasn't she, I pray, sir, And I'll be drot, if you say not, We'll fight this very day, sir. We'll fight this very day, sir."
'My wishes, sir, replied Mr Tapley, whose mind would appear from the context to have been running on the matrimonial service, 'is to love, honour, and obey. The clock's a-striking now, sir. 'Come in! 'Thank'ee, sir, rejoined Mr Tapley, 'what could I do for you first, sir? 'You gave my message to Martin? said the old man, bending his eyes upon him.
When we returned to the boat, we found that our people had caught with the seine a great number of small fish, which are well known in the West-Indies, and which our sailors call leather-jackets, because their skin is remarkably thick. I had sent the second lieutenant out in the yawl a-striking, and when we got back to the ship, we found that he also had been very successful.
The cook, who had been fumbling uneasily with her apron, looked up. "Shure, we all sleeps at the top of the house, sir." "In one room?" Slowly. "Yes, sir." "Did she come up to the room last night?" "Yes, sir." "At what hour?" "Shure, it was ten when we all came up. I heard the clock a-striking." "Did you observe anything unusual in her appearance?" "She had a toothache, sir."
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