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The doctor leaped from his chair, waggling an old finger in Blake's face. "Pay!" he yelled. "Pay me for going to Jack Schuyler! You keep your dashed money, my boy. When I want any, I'll ask you for it. D'ye hear me? I'll ask you for it! When does the first boat sail?" "It sails to-night in half an hour," returned Blake.
And lying thus in my misery I little by little became aware of someone weeping hard by, a desolate sobbing very pitiful to hear. At my step he started to his knees, elbow upraised as if expecting a blow. "Why d'ye weep, boy?" I questioned. "What's your trouble?"
Then he whistled long and low, and swore beneath his breath. "Hey!" he cried to Gibson. "What d'ye think o' that?" "God! It canna be," muttered Gibson. And: "Aye! That's gey queer like!" chorused the other shepherds.
Cross me, and you shall have neither the living nor my good word; and without my word you may whistle for your sucking lord! But do my bidding, help me to checkmate this baggage, and I'll see you have both. Why, man, rather than let him marry her, I'd pay you to marry her! I'd rather pay down a couple of thousand pounds, and the living too. D'ye hear me?
"It was lucky for him," murmured he, as he replaced his weapon in his pocket, "that the help came on my side;" then lit his pipe, and leisurely walked home. "Well, you caught the beggar, did you, Grange?" "Oh yes, we caught him fast enough," responded the other, grinning; "we caught the whole lot of them. And who d'ye think they were?
She was holding her nose in the air and sniffing; seated to windward of the smoker, and out of the pigtail-poisoned air, her delicate sense of smell perceived something lost to the others. "What is it, acushla?" "I smell something." "What d'ye say you smell?" "Something nice." "What's it like?" asked Dick, sniffing hard. "I don't smell anything." Emmeline sniffed again to make sure.
"D'ye mind the Squire's daughter, Josey?" asked one of the village women sauntering a little nearer to him. "Mind her?" And Josey Letherbarrow halted abruptly. "Do I mind my own childer?
"Hark ye, Madam," cried the Captain, "you'd best not call names; because, d'ye see, if you do, I shall make bold to shew you the door." She changed colour, and saying, "Pardi, I can shew it myself," hurried out of the room, and I followed her into a hackney-coach.
He was the only one, d'ye see, besides they two who knew the place where 'twas hid, and now that they've killed him out of the way, there's nobody but themselves knows. The villains Tut, tut, look at that now!" In his excitement the dominie had snapped the stem of his tobacco-pipe in two.
"Clap on to that windlass, sport! No loafing here.... Hump y'rself. D'ye hear me? Hump?" Jeff threw his one hundred and fifty pounds of bone and muscle against the crank of the windlass. Some men would have fought first as long as they could stand and see. Others would have begged, argued, or threatened. But Jeff had schooled himself to master impulses of rage.
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