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"The dark one, the man on the bay horse, seemed to be a pretty capable-looking individual," said Winthrop. "Glad you noticed that. You're improvin'. He is a capable gent. He's a old two-gun man. Did you see how he had his guns tied down low so they would pull quick. Nothin' fancy about him, but he's good leather. The other one don't count." "What shall I do when they come back?"
"Afraid of losing you." This seemed to frighten her. "What do you know?" she asked. "I know this," he answered, "that I think a girl like you, all in all, is too good for any man. But, if any man ought to have her, it's the gent that is fondest of her. And Bill is terrible fond of you, lady he don't think of nothing else. He's grown thin as a ghost, longing for you."
When you observes to a fellow-bein' that a-way 'Hold up your hands! you must be partic'lar an' see he does it. Which if you grows lax on this p'int he's mighty likely to put your light out right thar. "An' jest as Jack Moore tells me once when we're puttin' in some leesure hours an' whiskey mingled, you don't want to go too close to standup your gent.
"Dining at Grant's?" shouted Elkin in a fury. "Well, I'm " "'Ush, Fred!" expostulated Tomlin with a shocked glance at Mr. Franklin. "Wot's wrong wi' a bit of grub, ony ways? A very nice-spoken young gent kem 'ere twiced, an' axed for Mr. Peters the second time. He's a friend o' Mr. Grant's, I reckon." "What's wrong?" stormed the horse-dealer. "Why, everything's wrong!
"Ay, Miss, and so do many of us; but we can't be making wind no more'n we can make wittals and excusing me, Miss, it ain't Daniel, not meaning no disrespect to the other gent, whose papers were all right, I don't doubt, but my mother warn't easy in larning, and maybe didn't know of him it's Dan, Miss, free-and-easy like, but nat'ral." "Well, Dan, do you think it will blow?
When Sylvia recovered, however, she insisted upon seeing Bart again, and then learned that Paul had been taken to Charing Cross Hospital. "They drawed him from under the wheels, miss, as white as a vellum binding as ain't bin used. That gent as he was a-walking arm-in-arm with, slipped and knocked Mr. Beecot spinning under the steam engine." So did Bart describe the latest triumph of civilisation.
Sorez ain't a-goin' to listen to you until ye can show him he's wrong. He ain't goneter b'lieve he's wrong until ye can show him th' treasure. Secondly, the Priest gent ain't goneter sleep till he finds out what fer we are wanderin' 'round here. Thirdly, when he does find out, it ain't goneter be comfortable, as ye might say, to be seen in this here harbor.
"'Which the Great Father is too many for Crooked Claw, says this parent, commentin' on his helplessness. Bill's gone canterin' to his old gent to remonstrate, not hungerin' for learnin', an' Crooked Claw says this to Bill: 'The Great Father is too many for Crooked Claw; an' too strong. You must go to school as the Great Father orders; it is right. The longest spear is right.
I was just landin' a cross wallop to the ribs, by way of keepin' him from bein' too ambitious with his left, when out of the tail of my eye I notices Swifty Joe edgin' in with a card in his paw. "Time out!" says I, steppin' back and droppin' my guard. "Well, Swifty, what's the scandal?" "Gent waitin' to see you," says he. "Let him wait, then," says I.
"Don't you be uneasy about that, Mr Vandean, sir," said the stroke oarsman; "me and my mates'll smuggle the young nigger gent aboard somehow, even if I has to lend him my duds." "You leave off cutting jokes, Tom Fillot, and pull hard." "Ay, ay, sir," cried the man, chuckling, and he and his fellows made the boat skim through the glowing water.
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