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"I'm sure you did give me the money," said Toby, as he took the extended coin, "an' I'm much obliged to you for takin' it back. I didn't want to tell you before, 'cause you'd thought I was beggin'; but if you hadn't given me this, I 'xpect I'd have got an awful whippin', for Mr. Jacobs said he'd fix me if I didn't get the money for it."
When I look at the Pump pasture now, in afternoon like this, or in Spring with vi'lets, or when a circus show's there, it don't seem to me it could 'a' been the same place. I kep' 'em together the best I could some of 'em beggin' for 'Mr. Middie Mr. Middie, the man, I judged, that was dead.
The note sealed, I rang the bell for the landlord, desired him to send it up to the hall and tell the messenger to wait for an answer. As our host was leaving the room he turned round, with his hand on the door, and said: 'Beggin' your pardon, Mr. Cook, would you and Mr. Napeer please to take dinner here?
"I know the ways of women," he announced. "Their hearts is soft. When their hearts is touched they're likely to stack the cards, look at the bottom of the deck, an' lie like the devil beggin' your pardon, ma'am. I'm only discoursin' about women in general." "I don't know how to thank you," Madge quavered. "I don't see as you've got any call to thank me," he replied. "Brown ain't decided yet.
"You d d fool, did you ever know me do anything before shaving?" Manasseh chose a razor, stropped it, and worked the shaving soap into a lather. "Beggin' yo' Hon'ah's pardon," said he, "it bein' de Lawd's Day, an' these Port Nassau people dam' ig'orant " "Hand me the peignoir," commanded his master sharply. He sat, and was shaved.
"The throne av Spain," continued "His Majesty," "an' the crown an' sceptre av Spain, an' all the r'y'l regalia, an' all the moight an' majesty an' magnificence av its pomp an' power be jabers! they're all goin' a beggin' in this room; an' there's one here that's only got to wink, an' it's hers, every bit av it." Mrs.
Belfast shrieked like an inspired Dervish: "... So I seez to him, boys, seez I, 'Beggin' yer pardon, sorr, seez I to that second mate of that steamer 'beggin' your-r-r pardon, sorr, the Board of Trade must 'ave been drunk when they granted you your certificate! 'What do you say, you ! seez he, comin' at me like a mad bull... all in his white clothes; and I up with my tar-pot and capsizes it all over his blamed lovely face and his lovely jacket.... 'Take that! seez I. 'I am a sailor, anyhow, you nosing, skipper-licking, useless, sooperfloos bridge-stanchion, you!
"Beggin' your pardon, I'm sure, sir, for troubling you at all! knowin' as I do that what with the moithering old folks and the maupsing young ones, your 'ands is always full.
D'ye 'ear that, mates? A man musn't look at 'is own bunk now." The captain turned as though he had been stung. "This is my bunk," he said, sharply. "Ho, is it?" said Bill. "Beggin' of your pardon, an' apologizing for a-contradictin' of you, but it's mine. You haven't got no bunk." "I slept in it last night," said the captain, conclusively.
Bacheldor did not appear to hear, so the question was repeated. Abner answered without turning. "I know," he declared. "I know all right," and hurried on. Isaiah looked after him and sniffed disdainfully. "Anybody on earth but that feller," he said, "would have been ashamed to beg cartridges after beggin' the gun, but not Ab Bacheldor, no sir!
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