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"I won't forget yer," answered the conductor, "you shall 'ave yer Sharing Cross. Don't make a fuss about it." "That's the third time 'ee's arst me not to forget 'im," he remarked to me in a stentorian aside; "'ee don't giv' yer much chance of doin' it, does 'ee?"
"I guess arter that dressing down you giv' him las' night he'll want to be, all right," opined the black-mustached man. "Guess so," grinned Buck; "if he ain't, it'll be the worse fer him." As he spoke they topped a little rise. Over in front of them, and on all sides the desert, vast, illimitable, untrod of man, lay, a desolate expanse of nothingness.
And now why do you tell us this?" "So that you will kill him for a price." Red laughed harshly. "By Gawd! Madame Dolores Ysobel de Tajeda or Coogan, whatever yuah name is, I'd giv' a better price ef yuh was able to tuhn yuhself into a man fer a couple o' minnits. What d'yuh take us fer, greasers?"
"Non!" cried the half-breed, who had paused in the process of changing Alice's saddle to her own horse. "Me I ain' gon' for bor' no hoss. Am tak' dis hoss an' giv' heem back to Judge Carson. Him b'long over on Sage Creek." "Whad'ye mean, ye red scum!" screamed the man, his face growing purple. "That Circle 12 brand is " "Ha! Circle 12!
"'Is your aunt kind to you? "'She gives me my wittles. "'Suppose you did not get any money all day, what would she say to you? "'Oh, she won't give me a hidin' to-day, sir, supposin' I gets no more. You've giv' me enough already, sir; thank you, sir. I'll change it into ha'pence. "'She does beat you sometimes, then? "'Oh, my!
"I'm glad ye like him," said Bubble, looking highly gratified. "Hosy Grout giv him an' another one to me yes'day, over 't the village. He was goin' to drownd 'em, an' I wouldn' let him, an' he said I might hev 'em ef I wanted 'em. I knew Pink would like to hev one, an' I thought mebbe you liked critters, an' so " "Good Bubble!" said Hilda, stroking the little dog's curly head.
Maybe she worn'd a beauty: I nivver giv' it a thowt; But worn'd she as good to cuddle and kiss as a lass as an't nowt? I have always hoped that Sammy rejected his father's counsel and stuck to the poor parson's daughter. There is no harm of course in marrying money. George Borrow said that there were worse ways of making a fortune than marrying one.
They put their bloomin' rags on yer that night, an' what did they giv' ter me a clout on the bloomin' mouth blast their... S'elp me!... Yer will pay fur it with yer money. I'm goin' ter 'ave it in a minyte; as soon has ye're dead, yer bloomin' useless fraud. That's the man I am. An' ye're a thing a bloody thing. Yah you corpse!"
Peggotty, surprised to find it out, 'though I hadn't such intentions. 'Are you going back those many thousand miles, so soon? asked Agnes. 'Yes, ma'am, he returned. 'I giv the promise to Em'ly, afore I come away. You see, I doen't grow younger as the years comes round, and if I hadn't sailed as 'twas, most like I shouldn't never have done 't.
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