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Doret uttered a feeble cry and rose to his feet. "Ma soeur!" he exclaimed. "She's got claim up dere I stake it for her. For me, I don' care if I lose mine plenty tam I come jus' so close as dis; but if dem feller jump her groun' " "Wait, wait! There's no question of anything like that. Nobody has jumped your claim, or hers, either. The law wouldn't let 'em.
"'She's been to a music-'all with Bill, ses the cook. 'We saw 'em. "'WOT? ses the cap'n, falling back again. 'It can't be! "'It was them, ses my wife. 'A little boy brought me a note telling me. You let me go; it's my husband, and I want to talk to 'im. "'It's all right, I ses, waving my 'and at Miss Lamb, wot was going to speak, and smiling at my missis, wot was trying to get at me.
So they would keep on crowing, and coming to light fires, when for him that old colourless existence was but a dream. He went into the house to say good-bye to Em, and then he walked to the door of Lyndall's room to wake her; but she was up, and standing in the doorway. "So you are ready," she said. Waldo looked at her with sudden heaviness; the exhilaration died out of his heart.
"Can't say I ever took to 'em myself though it's not my place to say so. The young gents make a bit too free with one, and when they opens their mouths no one else may so much as sneeze. Think they know everything, they do. There's a saying as I've heard, that asses sing badly 'cause they pitch their voices too high. Maybe it's the same wi' them."
And then there's times when their bodies ail like no other living creatures ever I could hear of, and that strings up their feelings so, the patience, that belongs to them at other times beyond all living souls barring an ass, seems all to jump out of 'em at one turn, and into the water they go. Therefore, I say that men are monsters." "Mother!"
"Never a word of 'em!" replied Glassdale. "Never knew he had any!" "Did he never speak of his past?" asked Bryce. "Not in that respect," answered Glassdale. "I'd no idea that he was or had been a married man. He certainly never mentioned wife nor children to me, sir, and yet I knew Brake about as intimately as two men can know each other for some years before we came back to England."
Zoeth said nothing, but he looked vexed and disturbed. "I'd knock SOMEBODY'S head off if I had my way," observed Shadrach. "Or if I didn't, I'd like to. Where is she now, Isaiah?" "She's up in the spare room, asleep I cal'late. And she's got her dolls along with her, three on one side and two on t'other. Wanted me to be sure and wake all hands of 'em up on time in the mornin'. He, he!
"But you'll get drenched." "No, indeed!" "But you will," insisted Lucy with spirit. "No matter." "It is matter. Besides, I can't see my way to the house without the lantern. It's dark as pitch." "Take 'em both, then." "Of course I shan't," replied the girl indignantly. "And anyway, if I did, I couldn't carry the two in this wind. If I can't have but one, I'd rather have the lantern."
He said Trenjum got him to do it, and Trenjum told ye Meeker had a hand in it. Just say one accused the other, and when ye come to find this aboard ye had to put 'em in irons 'cause it looked like they was hatchin' mutiny in the crew. Then we'll slam the other two in irons on suspicion, and they bein' crew, ye got a right to do that.
I'll pass the word around among the boys, just to let 'em know what to expect." His eyes glittered again. "I've been following this Ribblevale business," he added, "and I understand Leonard Dickinson's all ready to reorganize that company, when the time comes. He ought to let me in for a little, on the ground floor." I did not venture to make any promises for Mr. Dickinson.
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