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We must remember an' pray for 'em." But Dorcas did not rise. "Is there any hope for them, father?" she asked, her voice muffled. "Can they be saved?" "Why, don't you remember the poor creatur' that come here an' asked that very question because she heard I said the Lord was pitiful?
"Ay, ay, sir," returned the cockswain with undisturbed composure; "here is his spout not half a mile to seaward; the easterly gale has driven the creatur to leeward, and he begins to find himself in shoal water. He's been sleeping, while he should have been working to windward!" "The fellow takes it coolly, too! he's in no hurry to get an offing!"
"He'd have got me a stove in a minute," burst forth Amelia in haste, "only he never knew I wanted it!" "More fool you not to ha' said so!" commented aunt Ann, unwinding her ball. "Well, I s'pose he would. John wa'n't like the common run o' men. Great strong creatur' he was, but there was suthin' about him as soft as a woman.
Finally, at McLane's chamber, she knocked hard, crying: "Open, Cunnil! Here's the bashful creatur! She daren't disobey no mo'. Step out and kiss her, Cunnil!" "Ha!" said McLane, throwing open his door, out of which the full light of fire and candles gleamed, "conservative, is she? Well, let her enter!"
D -me, Pathfinder, if I think a man without a heart any better than a fish with a hole in his air-bag." "I don't know how that may be, Master Cap; but a man without a conscience is but a poor creatur', take my word for it, as any one will discover who has to do with a Mingo.
"Where are you going to live in Shrewsbury?" I asked presently. "I don't expect to stop long, dear creatur'. I'm 'most seventy-six year old," and Mrs. Peet turned to look at me with pathetic amusement in her honest wrinkled face.
"He'd have got me a stove in a minute," burst forth Amelia in haste, "only he never knew I wanted it!" "More fool you not to ha' said so!" commented aunt Ann, unwinding her ball. "Well, I s'pose he would. John wa'n't like the common run o' men. Great strong creatur' he was, but there was suthin' about him as soft as a woman.
I tried to shoot a fa'n, but Killdeer missed fire, and the creatur' laughed in my face, as pleasantly as a young girl laughs in her merriment, and then it bounded away, looking back as if expecting me to follow."
Thirdly, Nosey, wi' his kilt, and bannet, and red coat, was, to a' intents and purposes, as like a human creatur as a monkey could weel be. Nae sooner, then, had he got the note, than he opened it out, and lookit at it wi' his wee glowrin', restless een, as if to see that it wasna a forgery.
Well, o' course Ann couldn't own it, an' him right there, so to speak. So she shook her head. 'Well, I'm glad on 't, says Sally. 'If I couldn't have anything to eat, I'd have suthin' to look at! He was the most unsignifyin'est creatur' you ever put your eyes on. But they say Ann's started in on her clo'es." Amelia's face had grown scarlet.
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