United States or United Kingdom ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"I don't owe you anything, Isom, and you've got to feed me better, or I'll walk away and leave you, that's what I'll do!" "Yes, I see you walkin' away!" said Isom, plucking at his already turned-up sleeve. "I'm goin' to give you a tannin' right now, and one you'll not forget to your dyin' day!" At that moment Isom doubtless intended to carry out his threat.
"Now what a way dat ar' is of talkin'! Go look at one o' dem ships we come over in, sweatin' and groanin', in de dark and dirt, cryin' and dyin', howlin' for breath till de sweat run off us, livin' and dead chained together, prayin' like de rich man in hell for a drop o' water to cool our tongues! Call dat ar' a-bringin' de fulness of de Gentiles, do ye? Ugh!"
"As I wasn't `wanted' just then, I went straight off to see your mother, to find out how much she had told to Edwin, for, from what he had said, I feared she must have told all. I was anxious, also, to see if she'd bin really ill. When I got to the house I met a nurse who said she was dyin', an' would hardly let me in, till I got her persuaded I was an intimate friend.
'It's all thrue, my leddy as thrue as the blessed gospel. I'm afeered she's dyin' if yer honour's glory won't lend us a hand. 'I don't know how to believe you, my good woman, for some of you come every week and deceive me with all kinds of stories. 'An' she's Welsh, yer honour. She's come to find out her friends, my leddy! God bless ye, ye've a kind eye and a gintle voice,
The spectators were convulsed with merriment, and Ephraim began to smell a rat if, indeed, it were possible to smell anything but the ancient eggs. "Say!" he snorted, "you fellers don't act like there was anybody dyin' around here.
"I don't feel like dyin'; but doctor ought to know. Seemed to me 'twas harder, an' an' more important. This sort o' dyin' don't seem o' much account." "No?" "That's it. I reckon, though, 'twould be other if I had a family round the bed. But there ain't none o' the boys left to stand by me now. It's hard." "What's hard?" "Why, that two out o' the three should be called afore me.
On glancing at the group who knelt around the door, he appeared to understand the melancholy cause which brought them together. "How is this?" he exclaimed. "Is there any one here sick or dying?" "Poor Misther Lanigan, sir, is jist departing glory be to God! An' what is terrible all out upon himself and family, he's dyin' widout the priest. They're both at Conwhirence, sir, and can't come Mr.
"Rescue the Perishin'; Care for the Dyin'." Then Tess felt Andy's body relax and heard the faintest possible sigh. When Burnett came forth unsuccessful but cheerful, her fingers were toying with her curls, and she broke off her song, question him with her eyes. "There ain't a soul in there," laughed the man.
I ain't struck on dyin' afore my time, and I don't know as I'm greatly struck on livin', but, whichever it is, you got ter make the best on it. I woulden mind stoppin' a bullet fair an' square; but I woulden like one of them 'orrible lingerin' deaths. "Died o' wounds" arter six munfs' mortal hagony that's wot gets at me. Git it over an' done wiv, I sez. Ow, chuck it, Bill.
Just let her think I'm civil like the rest of you. Wouldn't she open them blue eyes if she knew a man was dyin', just holdin' in cussin' on her account. Ha, ha, ha! She'd think I was a sort of a Yankee devil, worse than the Injins she expected. Don't let her know. I'll be quiet enough before long. Then like enough she'd look at me and say, 'Poor fellow! he won't make any more trouble."
Word Of The Day