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Then, instid o' bein' meek an' lowly, an' smoothin' him down, an' axin' him to please be so kind ez to reconsidah the mattah, you puts on yo' I'm-ez-good-ez-you-an'-a-blamed-sight-bettah air, an' axes him to explain his conduc'." "But indeed, Mr. Rogers, I was both respectful and deferential to Major Gilcrest."
The lad sat down at the desk and attached his name in a neat round hand to the declaration that he had received payment in full for his services from Mr. Zephaniah Ashton, up to the first of September of the current year. "This is all mine, Mr. Ashton?" "Of course what do you mean by axin' that?" "Nothing; good-day."
"Where is the captain, then?" was my next query, without stopping to think. "By the powers, ye bates Bannagher for axin' quistions, Misther Gray- ham!" cried Tim, amused at my cross-examination of him just as if he were in a court of justice, as he afterwards said when he brought up the matter one day. "Sure, how can I till where he or any other mother's son is that I can't say before my eyes?
He paused a while and stood thinking and rubbing his chin. Then he said that either Drusilla's head was too light or her heels too heavy he couldn't for the life of him tell which. There was one thing that bothered the children. If Mr. Sweetest Susan was so troubled that she asked Drusilla about it. But Drusilla shook her head vigorously. "Don't come axin' me," she cried.
"There was no time for axin', mother 't was done in a hurry, and I can't help it, so give us your blessing at once." "Tell me who is she, before I give you my blessin'?" "Shan More's sister, ma'am." "Yis, ma'am." "Oh, wirrasthru! plillelew! millia murther!" shouted the mother, tearing her cap off her head, "Oh blessed Vargin, holy St. Dominick, Pether an' Paul the 'possel, what'll I do?
I was down to the Island a sellin clocks, and who should I meet but John Porter; well, I traded with him for one, part cash, part truck and proDUCE, and also put off on him that are bark mill you heerd me axin about, and it was pretty considerable on in the evenin afore we finished our trade.
The fact is, a man can't be married according to law without two names." "So hit appears; but ain't it quare dat I should hev ole Mahs'r's name widout his gibbin' it ter me, ner my axin' fer it, Mister?" "It may be, but that's the way, you see." "So hit seems. 'Pears like I'm boun' ter hev mo' names 'n I knows what ter do wid, jes' kase I's free.
I once suspicioned that old cap'en Bowers, who was always foolin' round the hold yer, must hev noticed the bulge in the casin', but when he took to axin' questions I axed others ye know my style, Rosey? Come." He led the way grimly back to the cabin, the young people following; but turning suddenly at the companionway he observed Renshaw's arm around the waist of his daughter.
Then, sure, ye've got the makin's av a sailor in yez afther all, as Misther Mackay aid whin he foorst clapped eyes on ye. An', sure, it's now me toorn to be afther axin' quistions, me bhoy don't ye feel peckish loike?" "Peckish?" I echoed, unable to understand him. "Now, don't go on loike an omadhawn, an' make me angry, as ye did at foorst," he cried. "I mane are yez houngry?
De folks like de new-fangle' cakes betteh, an' gwine back to de ole way wouldn't do no good. It's all boun'ter come out dat I'se sellin' fer you as well as fer me. Marse Clancy axed ef you wasn't, leastways he 'gan to ax when I shut him up." "How did you shut him up?" said Mara, breathing quickly. "By axin' him anoder question. Yah, yah, I'se Yankee 'nuff fer dat.
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