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So when Marse Robert com'd home, I axed him, an' he larf'd an' said, 'All right, an' dat he would speak to ole Gundover 'bout it. He didn't relish it bery much, but he didn't like to 'fuse Marse Robert. He wouldn't sell her, for she tended his dairy, an' war mighty handy 'bout de house. He said, I mought marry her an' come to see her wheneber Marse Robert would gib me a pass.
I said there was something expected soon, that 'ud surprise them; and when they axed me what it was honor bright! I gave them a knowin' wink, but said notion'. Eh! was that breakin' trust? Arrah, be me sowl, Connor, you don't trate me well by the words you spoke this blessed minute." "An' how does it come, Bartle, my boy, that you had one story last night, an' another to-day?"
An' faix, yez have thrated us well, an' begorra, we would have axed yer consint, if we had dramed we could have got ut!" he concluded ingenuously. The two Indians gazed at him with a surprise so evident that a chill ran through his every nerve. "We will never reveal the secret, the place of the gold," declared L'Épine.
Denouncing the marriage if you plaze." My father, in his great excitement, was breaking with withering scorn into his native speech. "Aw yes, though, denouncing and damning it, they're telling me! Mighty neighbourly of him, I'm sure! Just a neighbour lad without a penny at his back to take all that throuble! If I had known he felt like that about it I might have axed his consent!
If he'd be kind 'nough to let a lasso down that we could climb up by, there'd be some sinse in the same, but " To the horror of both, at that instant there was a flash at the opening over their heads, a dull report, and the bullet buried itself in the very centre of the camp-fire. "Begorrah, but that's what I call cheek, as Ned McGowan used to say when the folks axed him to pay his debts.
All this the old miller told in answer to Rome's questions as the two walked away in the twilight. This was why he had not recognized her, and why her face yet seemed familiar even when he crossed the river that morning. "Uncle Gabe, how do you reckon the gal knowed who I was?" "She axed me." "She axed you! Whar?" "Over thar in the mill." The miller was watching the young mountaineer closely.
"Sorry to disturb you, friend," he said; "but these chairs of yours are so curst heavy, there's no handling them decently; specially with cold fingers." "Beggars, I reckon, have no right to be choosers," returned the settler; "the chairs is quite good enough for me and no one axed you to sit on em."
"Well, sir, sure some one has wrote to this Counsellor Browbeater about him, and what do you think, but Counsellor Browbeater has wrote to Mr. Lucre, and Mr. Lucre spoke to me, so that it's all the same as if the Castle had wrote to myself -and axed me if I knewn anything about him." "Well, what did you say?"
"He gave me a look and almost began to cry 'Arra now, your reverence, he replied, 'how could you expict me to have the heart to refuse a few sods to the great number of poor creatures that axed me for them, to boil their pratees, as I came along? I hope, your reverence, I am not so hard-hearted as all that comes to."
I went into a place what thar was a big glass full of beer painted on the winder to get a dram, and a nice- looking chap got talking to me, and perty soon he asked me to have a dram along with him. Then another fellar what was thar, he axed us if we ever played Rock-mountain euchre. He had some tickets, and he would jumble 'em up, and then we would bet yer on 'em.
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