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I knew that if I didn't do it Pap would, and that you'd hang him. Jake came after me agen an' agen, an' each time I warned him. To-day he came fer the last time. He was half- crazy, and I had to kill the beast to save myself. I did it, and" she looked steadfastly at Smoky Jack "I ain't ashamed of it, neither. There's only one man in all the world can make love to me.
But he held out agen everything, though he groaned every now and then; and what with the scratches and bruises on his hands, and the cut upon his forehead, and his stiff limbs and broken arm, he'd plenty of call to groan; and by the time it was broad daylight he was dressed and ready to go. "'What's the nearest town to this upon the London road? he asked me.
When ye will to do a thing agen all costs, is that i' the soäl? 'Certainly the spirit must be the self, and the will, as far as we know, is that self more that self than anything else is. He spoke in the pleased tone of a schoolmaster who finds that the mind beneath his touch is being moulded into the right shape; and besides he supposed he could question her next.
The tin-smith shifted his footing uneasily as if he had something to add. "I hope you won't think it onneighbourly or disrespectful that I didn' come agen this evenin'," he begun, after a pause. "Not at all, Jem, not at all." "Because, you see " "Yes, yes, I quite see." "I wouldn' have ye think but there, I'm powerful glad you see." His face cleared. "Good evenin' to ye, Uncle!"
More than that we could not get to see; for they no sooner perceived us, than they set up such a shout, that the roof of the temple shook agen, and withal endeavoured to lay hands on us; but we scamper'd and made what haste we could to the inn.
You hev no idee, ontil it's done to you, how worryin' it is when a drunken man jest sets an' stares at you fur hours together in that fool way. I give Jack fair warnin' time and agen when he was sober that I'd hurt him ef he kep' on starin' at me like that; but then he'd get drunk agen right off, an' at it he'd go.
Well! we had na' been a dozen fathoms away fra' th' boat as we had left, when crash! down wi' a roaring noise, and then a gulp of the deep waters, and then a shower o' blinding spray; and when we had wiped our eyes clear, and getten our hearts down agen fra' our mouths, there were never a boat nor a glittering belly o' e'er a great whale to be seen; but th' iceberg were there, still and grim, as if a hundred ton or more had fallen off all in a mass, and crushed down boat, and fish, and all, into th' deep water, as goes half through the earth in them latitudes.
Christian," said the Governor, and the meeting ended with cheers for His Excellency, shouts for Philip, and mutterings of contempt from the trawlers. "Didn't think there was a man on the island could spake like it." "But hasn't your fancy-man been rubbing his back agen the college?" "I'd take lil tacks home if I was yourself, Dan." "Drink much more and it'll be two feet deep inside of you."
The mate of a Mississippi boat is always a bully and every now and then he came along with a deck-hand carrying a lamp, and requested us to come down. He said it was "agen the rules of the boat to sleep on oats"; but we kept on breaking the rules as much as possible. Above the mouth of the Ohio the river bank on the Missouri side is high, rocky, and picturesque.
"Curus," says I, when I come to 'ear of it, "very curus!" and it set me a-thinkin'. Last time but one 'ere, lemme see that was a bell-'anging job, I think no, I'm wrong, it was drains agen, so it were drains it was agen. And the next thing I 'eard was that Mrs. Rummles was a-layin' at death's door with the diffthery!
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