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"Oh!" he said, and his bright, restless eyes travelled over me, to my hands, to the stick I carried, to my feet, to the tattered places in my coat, and the cuts and scratches I had received from the thorns. He seemed puzzled at something. His eyes came back to my hands. He held his own hand out and counted his digits slowly, "One, two, three, four, five eigh?"
And as the poor girl, who, as well as her mother, was almost frightened out of her wits, promised compliance, he hurried down the steps after the others, muttering, as the clamour without was redoubled "Eigh, roar on till yo're hoarse. Yo winnaw get in yet awhile, ey'n promise ye."
The grim little smile upon her lips when one big girl above Ruth went down before "forswear," spelling it with an extra "e," showed that the teacher considered the miss deserved to fail because of her heedlessness. Then, when she reached the list ending in "ay, ey and eigh" they fell like ripe huckleberries all down the line.
My stepmother has sent him." Mr. Hoopdriver wished he had returned the bicycle after all, for his ideas were still a little hazy about Bechamel and Mrs. Milton. Honesty IS the best policy often, he thought. He turned his head this way and that. He became active. "After us, eigh? Then he'll come back. He's gone down that hill, and he won't be able to pull up for a bit, I'm certain."
She walked along at his side, and, gently accommodating himself to her humour, he said Coketown was a busy place, was it not? To which she answered 'Eigh sure! Dreadful busy! Then he said, she came from the country, he saw? To which she answered in the affirmative. 'By Parliamentary, this morning.
"I reported to the New York Giants in September of 1908, as soon as the American Association season was over. I was eigh ..." "It still feels a little odd to have you 'remembering' things from years that have not yet been," interrupted Hootsey. "Let him finish the story," admonished Elephant. "I am sorry," said Rube. "But it is a memory to me, and a prediction to you.
But their mode of exhibiting it was not so entirely to his taste. Not only the young, but the old women wanted to hug him. 'Eigh! Dat you, Massa? Dat you, sar? Me no believe him. Out o' de way, you trash! Eigh! me too much pleased like devil. The one constant and spontaneous ejaculation was, 'Yah! Massa too muchy handsome! Garamighty!
Jennet followed the course of its silver wings, as they cleaved the blue sky, and then all at once saw a large hawk, which apparently had been hovering about, swoop down upon it, and bear it off. Some white feathers fell down near the little girl, and she picked up one of them and put it in her breast. "Poor bird!" exclaimed the May Queen. "Eigh, poor bird!" echoed Jennet, tearfully.
"Swere it! eigh," replied Jem. "Eigh, we'n aw swere it," chorused the hinds. "I'm delighted to hear it," cried Potts, radiant with delight, "for your description corresponds exactly with Master Nowell's plan, and differs materially from that of Mistress Nutter, as Squire Nicholas Assheton will tell you." "I cannot deny it," replied Nicholas, in some confusion.
When the young officer brushed past him, at the first go off, while he was rinsing some glasses in the passage, his sword banged against Pegtop's derriere as he stooped down over his work. He started and looked round, and merely exclaimed "Eigh, Massa Niger, wurra dat!"
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