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Wot d'ye want?" ses Dixon, with a growl, as Bob came in at the door. He was such a 'orrible figure, with the blood on 'is face and 'is beard sticking out all ways, that Bob, instead of doing wot he 'ad come round for, stood in the doorway staring at 'im without a word. "I'm paying off," ses Dixon. "'Ave you got any-thing to say agin it?" "No," ses Bob, drawing back.
The watchman had knocked at the door, it seems, when he heard that noise and crying, as above, and nobody answered a great while; but at last one looked out and said with an angry, quick tone, and yet a kind of crying voice, or a voice of one that was crying, 'What d'ye want, that ye make such a knocking? He answered, 'I am the watchman! How do you do?
If I had had your double-barrel .577, with a big solid bullet, and 6 drams of powder, I shouldn't have run away; but I go hunting for skins with my little Sharp, and I don't want a grizzly to go hunting for my skin; not if I know it. I've left him for you, and d'ye see, if you go up there this morning, there's some snow about, and you'll likely come across his tracks.
Now hereupon the man, still staring, rose up to his knees, and with a swift, appealing gesture, stretched out his hands towards Barnabas, and his hands were trembling all at once. "Sir!" said he, "oh, sir d'ye mean it? You don't know, you can't know what such an offer means to me. Sir, you're not jesting with me?"
'Shine, he murmured, 'd'ye mean Shine? It's a lie; he's not dead! Harry Hardy, who had just come upon the scene and was standing in the doorway, cried out at this. 'Great God! he said. 'Then it was Ephraim Shine after all! 'Pooh! cried Rogers, 'it was a trick to trap me into givin' his name. You needn't 'a' troubled yerself. I don't want to shield him damn him!
"Get up, I say. Get up, you fool! and come along home. Your wife is needin' ye. Go home and take care of her and the boy. Come along d'ye hear?" But the sleeper's brain was impervious to sound or sense. He only muttered, in a drowsy whisper, "Lemme 'lone," a few times, and went off into a deeper stupor than before. "You miserable cuss," snarled Chillis, in his wrath, "be d d to you, then!
"Why, boy," he said at length, "seems to me as if you'd as good cause to suspec' me of drinkin' as I have to suspec' you, 'cause we're both here, d'ye see? Howsever, I've been cruisin' after the same craft, an' so we've met, d'ye see, an' that's nat'ral, so it is."
We had like to lose another of our mess, for d'ye see, the old Culloden and Colossus fell foul of each other, and the Culloden had the worst on it, but Troubridge, who commanded her, was not a man to shy his work, and ax to go in to refit, when there was a chance of meeting the enemy so he patched her up somehow or another, and reported himself ready for action the very next day.
I go there a man, but I shall come out a beast, and that cowardly murderer by your side knows it, and you have not a word to say. That is all a poor fellow gets by being your brother. My curse on you all! butchers and hypocrites!" "Give him twelve hours more for that," roared Hawes. " his eyes, I'll break him, him." "Ah," yelled the thief, "you curse me, do you? d'ye hear that?
A little two-legged man with his cocksure reason strutting on its tiny brain as the apex of attainment he ridicules. D'ye see, now?" I gasped, I lit a big pipe and listened. He went on.
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