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"Now Martin, darlint," cried the Irishman, throwing aside his hat for the first time, and displaying his well-known jolly visage, of which the forehead, eyes, and nose alone survived the general inundation of red hair, "ye'll be hungry, I've small doubt, so sit ye down, lad, to supper, and you'll tell me yer story as ye go along, and afther that I'll tell ye mine, while I smoke my pipe, the ould cutty, boy, that has comed through fire and wather, sound as a bell and blacker than iver!"
"Why, Jonathan," she exclaimed, admitting the man whom Eve had never seen since the evening after her arrival, "what's up? What brings you here, eh?" "I've comed with summat for you," he said, casting a suspicious look at Eve. "Well, out with it, then," said Joan, quickly adding, as she jerked her head in that direction, "us don't have no secrets from she."
Ben throwed me in the Hoghole, he did, but I know that ye loved him, and I comed." The boy staggered with weakness, and his sister threw an arm around him. "Ye air to come to Mammy," she urged. "Mammy loves ye, Ezy dear." "Wait," whispered the boy. "Ben Letts air to be arrested." "What?" The cry was sharp the words hurt. "Ben Letts air to be tooked to jail. It were him what killed the gamekeeper.
She just comed down here to ax me how to make real good corn-cakes, knowin' that I was a fust-rate cook, an' could make corn-cakes, an' she wanted to know how to do it.
Them sodgers that are eatin' buffalo tongues up at the block-house as if they'd niver ate meat before, and didn't hope to eat agin for a twelve-month " "Ay, what o' them?" interrupted Mrs Varley; "I've bin wonderin' what was their errand." "Of coorse ye wos, Dame Varley; and I've comed here a' purpis to tell ye.
Though they have comed down in the world, and the last of the Bumpuses that's me is takin' a pleasure-trip round the world before the mast, I won't stand by and hear my name made game of, d'ye see: and I'd have ye to know, further, my buck, that the Bumpuses has a pecooliar gift for fightin'; and although you are a strappin' young feller, you'd better not cause me for to prove that you're conkerable."
But it was Egypt's good fortune." Barbara ignored the compliment with the simplicity of childhood, and proceeded to explain with great seriousness: "You see, Mummy was travelling, and she comed to Egypt. She didn't know I was going to happen," she added as if to clear Mummy of any imputation of thoughtlessness. "And your birthday, Barbara?"
You might have noticed that love-cheel by the name of Timothy 'bout the plaace? Him as be just of age to harry the ducks an' such-like." "A nice li'l bwoy, tu, an' fond of me; an' you caan't say he'm a love-cheel, knawin' nothin' 'bout him." "Love-cheel or changeling, 'tis all wan. Have'e ever thought 'twas coorious the way Blanchard comed by un?" "Certainly 'twas terrible coorious."
'What was the secret, then? asked Baltic, casting round for information. 'Bless 'ee, my tiny! Jentham nivir tole me. An' I was curis to know, my dove, so when he walks away half-seas over I goes too. I follows, lovey, I follow, but I nivir did cotch him up, fur rain and storm comed mos' dreful. 'Did you not see him on that night, then? 'Sight of my eyes, I sawr 'im dead.
"And has no news of the expedition been received since its arrival on the Spanish Main?" asked George. "Not as I've heard of, sir," answered Tom. "The last news of 'em was that they'd sailed from the Guinea coast some time about the end of January; and how that comed I don't know. But I expect 'tis true, because Madam got it from Madam Hawkins, who comed over expressly to tell her."
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