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"Ye do look tuckered," remarked Mrs. Hodgkins, "but hearin' the things I've got ter tell will interest ye, an' make ye feel reel perky. Ye needn't feel ye've got ter talk, fer I kin talk 'nough fer two. "When I started aout this morning, the fust pusson I see was Janie Clifton, an' what on airth do ye think she's been up to?"
Three miles from heah the blue-coats are swarmin' thicker'n bees in a field o' buckwheat." "Three miles from here! Is our army within three miles of here?" "Hit sartinly is, an' the Lord-awfullest crowd o' men an' guns an' hosses thet ever tromped down the grass o' this ere airth. Why, hit jest dazed my eyes ter look at 'em. Come ter this other winder.
He walked on, until his rapid stride brought him to the centre of the cliff above Horseshoe Cove. Then "Good Lord!" said Jim Airth, and stood still. He had caught sight of Lady Ingleby's white skirt reposing on the sand, beyond the scarlet parasol. "Good Lord!" said Jim Airth. Then he scanned the horizon. Not a boat to be seen. His quick eye travelled along the cliff, the way he had come.
I actilly dream on that man in my sleep sometimes, and then I see him as plain as if he was afore me, and I go over it all agin till I come to that are shot, and then I leap right up in bed and scream like all vengeance, and your mother, poor old critter, says, Sam, says she, what on airth ails you to make you act so like old Scratch in your sleep I do believe there's somethin or another on your conscience.
Ronald stoutly denied that this was the case; but Billy affirmed it, though refusing to give reasons. Ronald had never succeeded in extorting from Billy one word of what had taken place when he had told Lady Ingleby that Jim Airth was the man. "If you wanted to know how she took it, you should have told her yourself," said Billy.
His eyes were turned seaward. The same dawn-light was in them, as shone in her own. "Don't you want breakfast?" said Jim Airth, and pulled out his watch. "I do," said Myra, gaily. "And now I can venture to tell you what delicious home-made bread I had for tea. What time is it, Jim?" "Half past three. In a few minutes the sun will rise. Watch! Did you ever before see the dawn? Is it not wonderful?
Saiver of Airth, Mave, darlin', won't you spake to me, to your own mother?" "Maybe I did spake to her too severely," said the father, now relenting, "an' if I did, may God forgive me; for sure you know, Bridget, I wouldn't injure a hair of my darlin's head. But this blood! this blood! oh, where did it come from?"
I guess he didn't half like that are word Popish priest; it seemed to grig him like; his face looked kinder' ryled, like well water arter a heavy rain; and said he, Mr. Slick, says he, your country is a free country, aint it? The freest, says I, on the face of the airth you can't "ditto" it nowhere.
Jim Airth of anywhere he chooses to take me! "Now you will understand why I felt I could not marry you validly in Cornwall; and I wanted was it selfish? I wanted the joy of revealing my own identity when I had you, at last, in my own beautiful home. Oh, my dear my dear! Cannot our love stand the test of so light a thing as this?" She ceased speaking and waited.
But these superstitious fears were soon put to flight by the hearty voice of the harpooner, who shook himself like a great Newfoundland dog as he came up, and exclaimed "Why, wot on airth has brought ye all here?"
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