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Stop at home, as a man ought to do, to preserve and protect his ain family and his ain property. Wherefore would ye risk life or limb withouten cause. There will be enough to fight the French without you unmarried men, or men that have naebody to leave behint them and to mourn for them."
Go to him to marry her! but dinna hae the audacity to look me in the face. "'Weel said, Nicol, whispered my mother, coming behint me, and clapping me on the back; 'aye act in that manner, my man. "And both her faithers and her brothers stood looking one to another for an answer, and slunk away without saying another word either about the law or our marriage.
In coorse they're Mexikins, lanzeeros." "What can they be doing out here? There are no Indians on the Staked Plain. If there were, such a small party as that, taking it to be Mexican, would not be likely to venture after them." "Maybe it's only a advance guard, and thar's a bigger body behint. We shell soon see, as they're ridin' deerect this way.
I was now getting on the wrang side o' eight and thirty; and that is an age when it isna prudent in a spinister to be throwing the pouty side o' her lip to any decent lad that hauds out his hand, and says 'Jenny, will ye tak me? Often and often, baith by day and by night, did I think o' the good bargains I had lost, for the sake o' my fause James Laidlaw; and often, when I saw some o' them that had come praying to me, pass me on a Sunday, having their wives wi' their hands half round their waist on the horse behint them 'O James! fause James! I have said, 'but for trusting to you, and it would hae been me that would this day been riding behint Mr. .
"Faith, ye oogly yaller-faced raskil," he cried, putting up his fists in the scientific way we had learnt from long practice on board with the gloves under our gymnasium instructor, "Oi'll knock ye into the middle of nixt Soonday wake, ef ye don't kape a civil toongue in yer hid an' put yer owld dhrumsticks behint ye!"
Yorke voiced the general sentiment. "My God!" he said in a low voice, "but it sure is dreary!" With a final, self-satisfying survey at his "lay av things" Slavin stepped well to the side of the incriminating foot-prints. "Come on!" he said "get in file behint me! We will follow this up!" Silently they obeyed and padded in his rear. "D d big feet, whoever owns 'em," remarked Redmond to Yorke.
M' legs an' feet wor as stiff and shtrait as th' legs ov thim tongs in yer chimley. Och, but it's th' prackus I was frum top t' toe! Dead intirely was I but fur th' eyes an' th' wit behint thim. She ariz an' walked up an' down, back an' fort', up an' down, back an' fort', keenin' an' cryin' an' wringin' her han's! Maan alive, didn't she carry on terrible!
We're goin' down here aways, swing aroun', an' come in behint 'em." "Oh, hush, with your comin' in behint 'em. I've seen all 'a that I wanta. Don't tell me about comin' in behint " "Bill Smithers, he ses he'd rather been in ten hundred battles than been in that heluva hospital. He ses they got shootin' in th' nighttime, an' shells dropped plum among 'em in th' hospital.
'Oh, come in, suh, come in en win, den, he sez, en Ole Marster step out en walk right in wid Marse Plaintain behint 'im en I set dar all night, yes, suh, I set dar all night a-hol'n' de hosses' haids. "Den w'en de sun up out come Ole Marster, white es a sheet, with his han's a-trem'lin', en de bag er gol' gone.
A long discussion as to how it could have come there immediately ensued between the smugglers, in the midst of which a wavelet washed against Swankie's feet, reminding him that the tide was rising, and that he had no time to lose. "There's nae place behint the rocks," said he quickly, putting the brooch in his pocket, "so we'll just hide the kegs amang the stanes.
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