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"Ye see, Mr Doo, the Bible's lain sae lang there, that it's jist oor ain. And the lassie canna want it till she has a faimily to hae worship wi'. And syne she s' be welcome to tak' it." "Ye gang up the stair for the buik, or I'll gang mysel'." Bruce went and fetched it, with a bad grace enough, and handed over with it the last tattered remnants of his respectability into the hands of James Dow.
"They been learnin' us teachin' us, I mean French. It's the darnedest language! Bread is pain. Can you beat that? If you want to ask for a piece of bread, you say like this: Donnay ma un morso doo pang. See?" "My!" breathed Tessie, all admiration. And within her something was screaming: "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! He knows French. And those girls that can row and everything.
"Ah!" said Doo, assuming the self-satisfied manner of a jailer; "it would not be proper for me to answer that." "You would save me from despair and revolt," replied Trenck warmly. "For I give you my word of honor that from the moment I know when my captivity is to terminate no matter when that may be, or what my subsequent fate I will make no further attempts to evade it by flight."
Which a doo regyard for these plain rights of mine would go far to freein' Wolfville upper circles of the bullets which occurs from time to time, an' which even the most onconventional admits is shore a draw-back. All I can add as a closer, concloods Jack, 'is that I'll make haste to open on any sport who transgresses these fiats an' goes to shootin' first.
Looking keenly with his little shining eyes at his visitor, he opened the letter, read it, and with the broadest Devon dialect, said 'Zo you mayne tu bee a peinter, doo 'ee? What zort of peinter? 'Historical painter, sir. 'Heestoricaul peinter! Why, ye'll starve with a bundle of straw under yeer head. Presently he read the note again. 'Mr.
That old ballad, "The wee grovelling doo," would come into her head, and she had felt as if any harm happened to the child it would be her fault for not having spoken a word of warning, and this had determined her.
But tell me, what wouldest thou giue him, that could deliuer thée out of this heauinesse, and perswade Redwald that he should neither doo thée hurt, nor deliuer thée to thine enimies? Edwin being better come to himselfe by such demandes, did not sticke to promise that he would requite his friendship with woorthie thanks.
"Faith, Tom, me bhoy," he would say to me, "Oi can't say howivver ye can go fur to do it, sure, a gossoon loike yersilf who's got a carrackter fur to loose; aye, an' fur sich a dirthy, nasty thing as thit, a- spillin' the tasthe ov good ghrub, so thit ye can't tell whither ye're aitin' spuds or pay doo.
I otta go in a minute, but you're such a chicken if I don't watch out for you y'might get lost in the wash. Any one put you wise on that three-cent billy doo?" "The girl at the door told me I was to buy it of her," said Win, "and then I could divide it up for three different things to eat. But can one get three different things to eat for three cents? It seems wonderful!"
As time went on, Richard's talking powers increased; he quite upset any grave conversation that might be going on; his voice dropped at times to a sort of stage whisper, as if he wished to convey some profound secrets. "Oh, you little beauty, pretty little dear, 'ow de doo?" used to mingle most absurdly with the conversation of his elders and betters.
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