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"Alas," said the fair Stubbs, "when you've been as long in the tent as I've been, you'll know that that is impossible. You might as well ask me for a slice of the moon that is now lookin' down on this here peaceful scene atween you and me." "You've heard the Sunday school story about Samson and Delilah?" pursued Rounders. "What's that got to do with John Brinton's secret?"
She made right straight for the door, dashed in atween old aunty's legs, and carries her out on her back, ridin' straddle-legs like a man, and tumbles her head over heels in the duck pond of dirty water outside, and then lays down along side of her, to put the fire out in its tail and cool itself.
Ye fled from the house as if the fire o' Heaven was about to fa' upon it, and Miss Neville, atween reason and the want o't, was put under sure ward. But the ward sleep't, and the prisoner waked the window was open the way was before her there was the cliff, and there was the sea! O, when will I forget that!" "And thus died," said the Earl, "even so as was reported?" "No, my lord.
Well you may go there and shake the folks to all etarnity and you won't wake 'em, I guess, and yet there ain't much difference atween their sleep and the folks at Halifax, only they lie still there and are quiet, and don't walk and talk in their sleep like them above ground.
For now feeling the wheels on grass and the end near, he loosed the rein and fetched the horse he rode a cut atween the ears an' that's how 'twas," concluded Seth, lamely. Like most inferior narrators, he shied at the big fence, flinched before the climax. But as he ended, I flung a short glance downward at the birches and black water, and took up my rod again with a shiver.
"By no means," added Slagg; "I've heard say that the pirates there are about the wust set o' cut-throats goin' though I don't myself believe there's much difference atween one set and another."
There's a bargain, sir, your Reverence, made atween thim; an' the divil, sir, that is, the ould boy the saints about us! has a hand in it.
His name was Samson, and if it had been Tamson she would hae ta'en him. Ay, you may look, but it's true. Her name was Turnbull, and she had another gent after her, name o' Tibbets. She couldna make up her mind atween them, and for a while she just keeped them dangling on. Ay, but in the end she took Tibbets. And what, think you, was her reason?
The confidence of the Glen and tributary states was unbounded, and rested partly on long experience of the doctor's resources, and partly on his hereditary connection. "His father was here afore him," Mrs. Macfadyen used to explain; "atween them they've hed the countyside for weel on tae a century; if MacLure disna understand oor constitution, wha dis, a' wud like tae ask?"
Maybe you've heard of him," added the skipper irrelevantly. "A well-known Temperance Reformer he was." The old steersman shook his head. "You're miles away out o' your course, then five an' twenty miles good." "Where are we?" "Right south-west atween Holmness and the land. You've overshot everything. Why, man, are ye all mazed aboard?
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