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Feel my heart, it has throbbed with the weight of you since that night in Belem, when you struck your head under the mantel." He was speechless. I murmured loving words to him, till he drew a deep breath of life and strength. "These fish are small," said Fanny at the door. "Shall I take them!" "Certainly," said Desmond, "I'll pay for them." "It is Ben in black lead," said Fanny. We laughed.
During the walk Ben was anxious to know where and how Master Spry was going to procure this lumber which he offered for an interest in the concern; but Dickey did not hesitate to say that he would not tell them until after the question as to whether he was to be a partner or not had been settled, lest they should take advantage of the information, and then refuse to make him an equal owner.
"Don't! oh, Mister James, don't!" cried Ben wringing his hands with fresh violence, "them's cruel words to stun a poor fellow's heart with she ain't dead, God don't take his angels up to glory in that 'ere way!" James laid Mabel reverently from his arms, and stood up casting anxious glances through the storm.
So they went back to their wives; and their wives, recollecting that the cottage formed part of the glebe, went off to inquire of Parson Morth, "than whom," as the tablet to his memory relates, "none was better to castigate the manners of the age." He was a burly, hard-riding ruffian, and the tale of his great fight with Gipsy Ben in Launceston streets is yet told on the countryside.
A line must be drawn, we conceive, between artists of this class, and those poets and novelists whose skill lies in the exhibiting of what Ben Jonson called humours. The words of Ben are so much to the purpose, that we will quote them
"You hav'n't got Nicholas by your elbow now to prompt you, so keep a sharp look-out, and be sure that you are right this time," said Roger. "Ay, that I will, sir," answered Ben; "and every league we make good, the more sure I am that I am right."
It were only in the storm she found what she were a-seekin'." She turned her head sharply toward the dead. "Ye can see she air a-smilin', Satisfied, can't ye? And Ben air a-huggin' her up to him. That air somethin' Myry wanted. And ye air a-goin' to leave them like that, ain't ye? Don't tear Ben's arms loose, 'cause Myry won't be happy if ye does. Can't ye put 'em in a box, just like they air?"
At length he turned to these half-grown boys, looking very sad, as he said, "Boys, I am just as God made me, an' so is a toad." At this the boys slunk away; and I felt very indignant in seeing the men who were standing near only laugh, instead of sharply reproving those ill-behaved children. Another colored man, named Ben, came to our town with a family who opened an inn.
As soon as I lay hold of some craft which I am willing shall go away with a sound hull, I will put you on board of her and let you go back to the farm. I will keep you no longer among these wicked people, Ben Greenway, and in this wicked place." Ben shook his head.
But see here, Toby" and Ben caught him by the sleeve and led him aside where he would not be overheard "have you got enough money to take you home? for if you haven't I can let you have some." And Ben plunged his hand into his capacious pocket, as if he was about to withdraw from there the entire United States Treasury.
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