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"And when she saw the young lady look out of the window the old lady knocked again; and when nobody came she took up the furze-hook and looked at it, and put it down again, and then she looked at the faggot-bonds; and then she went away, and walked across to me, and blowed her breath very hard, like this.
Ail these years you've been kind a-talkin' it over, an' now y'r actshelly goin'-Waal, I never! 'I s'pose Ripley furnishes the money, ses I to him. 'Well, no, ses 'e. 'Ripley says he'll be blowed if he sees where the money's comin' from, ses 'e; and ses I, 'But maybe she's jest jokin', ses I. 'Not much, he says. S' 'e: 'Ripley believes she's goin' fast enough.
The wind blowed so strong it lifted the lightship right out of the water up to the ends of them chains and kept her there. Course there was a dreadful sea runnin' underneath us, but we never felt it a mite; that gale was holdin' us up twenty foot clear of it!" "Zacheus Bloomer, do you mean to say " "Um-hm. Twenty foot in the air we was all that night and part of next day.
The moment the door in the bath-room was opened all this gas took light an' blowed up like gunpowder. The whole inner skin o' the beautiful drawing-room, ma'am, was blowed into the middle of the room.
"I'll say it's decent of you damned decent. Blowed if I'd take it as calm as you, if I waked up to find somebody in my room." "I believe," said Lanyard pointedly, "you stipulated for a few minutes' chin with me. Time passes, Mr. Mussey. Get to your business, or let me go to sleep again." "Sharp, you are," commented the mutter. "I've noticed it in you.
Not to mention paying off a lot of poor publicans and horse-dealers, who could not afford to wait for their money. Blowed if I don't think it the most honest action he ever did in his life. Well, he committed the wrote the name I mean, and stood two ten-pound notes for the information, quite handsome.
Cap'n Pigg was not easily disconcerted, but this ghostly "Ha! Ha! Ha!" was a distinct trial to his nerves; he thrust his hands deep into his coat pockets, glared at the mate, and then growled: "Wodjer got there? More 'armony?" "Grammarphone," was the mate's brief reply. He was getting sulky. "Grammar be blowed! Worst grammar I ever 'eard," returned Pigg.
"I wish to God I'd of blowed his ugly head off." "It might have saved trouble," admitted King coolly. "Also, it might have been the job to hang you, Honeycutt. Better leave well enough alone. But listen to me: Brodie told you, and he meant it, that it was going to be Brodie or King who got away with this deal." "He lied! Like you lie!" Here was Honeycutt probed in his tenderest spot. "It'll be me!
For a moment the latter plunged, and blowed, and snorted, his head half under water; but in a second's time he was on his feet again, and charging in turn. The spectators could see that he aimed right at the elephant's ribs with his horn, and that the latter did all he could to keep head towards him.
The first thing I see as soon as I goes into the little vinery there was two big slates off the top o' the house, blowed off like leaves, to go right through the glass, and there they was sticking up edgeways in the vine border." "Well, only a job for the glazier," said Tom. "Strikes me there won't be glass enough left in the village to do all the mending.
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