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He rubbed his face frantically with the soiled sleeve of his shirt, spitting out the scales and blood that hat lodged between his dark-colored teeth. "Ye're always a tormentin' her, Ben," said Longman; "now if ye was only satisfied to let her alone, I air a thinkin' that she wouldn't bother ye. Tess air a good girl, for Myry says as how she can hush the brat when he air a howlin' like a nigger."
When another ill-written enigmatical letter arrived, he insisted that it was from the same quarter, and made Broadbent conduct the negotiations, with the result that after considerable sums had been paid in circuitous fashions, the butler was directed to a railway arch where the child would be deposited, and where he found a drab-coloured brat of whom he disposed at the nearest police station, after which he came home savagely disgusted.
Guess mother won't remember the poor little brat she left so long ago; why should she? 'Because true mothers never forget their children; and I know she was one, from the fact that she ran away from the cruel husband, to save her little son from bad influences. Had she lived, life would have been happier for you, with this tender friend to help and comfort you.
Did you really make a circus brat of John Massey and did he really run away from you? That is all you told me before, you remember." "It was all you wanted to know. Besides," the man smiled his diabolical grin again, "there was a reason for going light on the details. At the time I held you up I hadn't any more idea than you had where John Massey was, nor whether he was even alive.
"Yes, yes, but there is one word more, M'sieu'," said Jo, standing up and facing him firmly. "You must go back. You are not a thief. The woman is yours. You throw your life away. What is the man to you or the man's brat of a child? It is all waiting for you. You mus' go back. You not steal the money, but that Billy it is that Billy, I know.
I could not bear the thought! So take care, Pamela; take care, beggarly brat; take care. Good madam, said I, spare my dear parents. They are honest and industrious: they were once in a very creditable way, and never were beggars.
"Who can tell what ails the peevish brat?" snarled the young boatman impatiently. "Rather look this way and tell me whom be these after!" The old man and his other son looked, and saw four men walking along the east bank of the river; at the sight they left rowing awhile, and gathered mysteriously in the stern, whispering and casting glances alternately at their passengers and the pedestrians.
"Ah," said Sholto, without joy or conviction, "but we are neither in nor yet out of this weary town of Edinburgh!" As the cavalcade approached, there came a boy on a pony at speed towards them. He carried a switch in his hand, and with it he urged his little beast to still greater endeavours. "The King!" cried David, cheerfully. "I heard he was a sturdy brat enough!"
A woman came to our house, we were living in London then, an old friend of mine with whom I'd stupidly mixed up again; she brought a child with her, a squalling brat two or three months older than Jasper Of course the child had nothing to do with me, but she said he had, and Peggy believed her!" he looked for sympathy to the silent man opposite to whom he was now sitting.
You'll have to find some place for the brat besides my wagon if it's anything that won't get cured without nu'ssin'. So come along and have a look. I followed him, perfectly determined to take the child under my own care, sick or well. 'Where were you going to take her? I asked. I didn't ask who she was; why should I? 'I don't know as I am obliged to tell, was his surly reply.
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