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Ged, if you don't look alive I'll have to blow a hole in you afther all. You wouldn't be the first man I've killed, nor the last maybe." Ezra opened the door precipitately. "Now walk before me into the strate." It struck the waiters at Nelson's well-known restaurant as a somewhat curious thing that their two customers should walk out with such very grave faces and in so unsociable a manner.
I remimber ould Gilder, when he was our chief in India, used to say that a man who got beyond enjoying beer and a clay pipe at a pinch was either an ass or a coxcomb. He smoked a clay at the mess table himself. Draper, who commanded the division, told him it was unsoldier-like. 'Unsoldier-like be demned, he said. Ged, they nearly court-martialled the ould man for it.
"Never mind!" said Molly, sharply; but she crimsoned when he kissed her, and held tightly to his sleeve. "Good ged!" thought Sir Thorald; "what a devil I am with women!" But now the carriages drove up coupés, dog-carts, and a victoria.
"Has Mr. Headley had anything to eat?" asked Valencia, who longed to run away to her own room, but dared not. "He is eating now like any ged, ma'am; and Major Campbell's making him eat too." "He must be very ill," thought she, "for mon Saint Père never to have come near us yet:" and then she thought with terror that her Saint Père might have guessed the truth, and be angry with her.
'Do ged on wi' yor tale, Malachi; what does Mr. Penrose want to know abaat lasses o' forty year sin'? He's geddin' one o' his own and that's enough for him, aw'm sure. 'Aw nobbud want him to know that there were bonnie lasses i' aar time as well as i' his that were all, Betty. 'Well, ged on wi' yo', an' durnd be so long abaat it, Malachi. 'One day, Mr.
"Some would say more, some less. Some would want half, but that is overdoing it. How does a thousand pound stroike you? Yes, I think we may put it at a thousand pounds." "You want a thousand pounds?" "Ged, I've been wanting it all me life. The difference is that I'm going to git it now." "And for what?" "Sure, for silence for neutrality. We're all in it now, and there's a fair division of labour.
They went back to the place where the trail led in, an' there they were, great big silver tip tracks, bigger'n hoss-tracks, so fresh thet water was oozin' out of 'em. Schmitt said: 'Zake, you go in und ged him. I hef took sick right now." Happy as we were over the chase of Old Tom, and our prospects for Sounder, Jude and Moze had seen a lion in a tree we sought our blankets early.
Penrose, if you'd ha' kep' him and his mother and o'. But fo'k mun eat, thaa knows. Th' Almeety's gan o'er rainin' daan manna fro' heaven, as He used to do in th' wilderness. Mr. Penrose did not reply. 'Yo' know, Mr. An' as for danger why, yo' connot ged away fro' it. 'Yes; that's sound philosophy, assented Mr. Penrose. 'Mr.
Ye 'member what I told ye, Tobe. Money's tight and I oughter call in that loan." Toby was silent for half a minute. Then Nan heard him sigh. "Well, Ged," he observed, "it's up to you. If you take the place it'll be the poorhouse for that unforchunit boy of mine and mebbe for the ol' woman, 'specially if I can't strike a job for next winter.
And never before had I heard him mention his brother. Much shocked; I murmured: "Oh! I am sorry!" "Yes," he answered, "he was a good man, he made a good bood; but he is dead." And he touched the top of his head, where the hair had suddenly gone as thin as it had been on that of his poor brother, to indicate, I suppose, the cause of death. "He could nod ged over losing de oder shop.
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