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"So help me God " he began. "Wait!" broke in McTee. "Don't say it. Suppose we get off the island, and when we reach port find one thing which we both want. What then?" Harrigan remembered a word from the Bible. "I'll never covet one of your belongin's, McTee, an' I'll never cross your wishes." "Your hair is red, Harrigan, and mine is black; your eye is blue and mine is black.
"Tell me what's happened," returned Ellen. "Girl, it's a tolerable long story," replied Colter. "An' we've no time now. Wait till we get to camp." "Am I to pack my belongin's or leave them heah?" asked Ellen. "Reckon y'u'd better leave them heah." "But if we did not come back " "Wal, I reckon it's not likely we'll come soon," he said, rather evasively.
And as to the cab-fare, sure I hailed the hansom out of politeness to your honour's glory, the day that saw me going off to the Army Medical School at Netley, wid all my worldly belongin's in wan ould hat-box and the half of a carpet-bag.
I'd be ashamed to have his folks come if we didn't have anybody else." "Mebbe we can have some new paper before then; I can put it on. I guess you won't have no call to be ashamed of your belongin's." "We might have the wedding in the new barn," said Nanny, with gentle pettishness. "Why, mother, what makes you look so?" Mrs. Penn had started, and was staring at her with a curious expression.
That day the young men of the tribe did a little foot-runnin', and Mike begged 'em to let him in. It was comical to see how pleased they was. They felt so sure of him that they began pro-ratin' our belongin's among one another. They laid out a half-mile course, and everybody in camp went out to the finish-line to see the contest and to bet on it.
"'Tis the soldiers have betther treatment than the officers whin it comes to boardin' transports," said the friendly policeman. "They get marched straight on board. The officers and their belongin's has to wait till they've gone through hivin knows what formalities. So you needn't worry, miss, an' take your time. The ould ship'll be there hours yet."
It's my opinion that it's the captain of the frigate, an' he's doin' it in Cazeneau's name. Ye see he's ben a cruisin' about, an' hankers after a prize; an' I'm the only one he's picked up. You're 'rested course as one of the belongin's of the Parson. You an' I an' the hull crew: that's it! We're all prisoners of war!" "O, no," said Claude. "It isn't that, altogether; there's some deeper game."
'Joe, says I, 'I reskered part of your belongin's. It looks ter me as though yeou'll hev time an' to spare to take this fiddle to the city an' raffle it off. But 'fore ye do that, what'll ye take for the fiddle lowest cash price? "'Jest what it cost me, Walky, says Joe. 'One hundred dollars. "'No, Joe; it didn't cost ye that, says I. 'I mean what yeou put into it yerself.
"I wanted ter mek sure that I could get a daybreak start in the morning. I hain't nobody's sugar ner salt that I kain't stir abroad without meltin', be I?" "We saw that your pack was gone too and we 'lowed " began Halloway, but she interrupted him with a curt explanation. "Thet shack war leakin' like a sieve. I didn't aim ter hev all my belongin's mildewed an' rusted so I left 'em at ther store."
I'd just got my money out of the bank when it was held up, and Lew was shot." Pop teetered and gummed his tobacco and grinned foxily. "Shucks! I don't care nothin' about Lew's wife goin', ner I don't care nothin' much about the horse. They ain't no funral uh mine, Bud. Dave an' Lew, let 'em look after their own belongin's." "They'll have to, far as I'm concerned," said Bud.
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