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Old Doubleyear spoke first: "I had a bad night of it with the rats some years ago they runn'd all over the floor, and over the bed, and one on 'em come'd and guv a squeak close into my ear so I couldn't sleep comfortable. I wouldn't ha' minded a trifle of it, but this was too much of a good thing.
I'se 'll come 'long in de shank ob de ev'nin', mas'r, and guv yer a shakedown in my cabin, an' I'll watch while yer sleeps. Den I'll bring yer back heah befo' light in de mawnin'." The presence of Confederate forces required these precautions for several days, and Iss won Graham's whole heart by his unwearied patience and vigilance.
I guv a ten of 'em to young Mr Pendle, and two fives of m' own, as he wanted to change a twenty. If I'd know'd as it was dangerous I'd hev gone up to London and got other notes; but I never thought I'd be found out by the numbers. No one thought as I did it; but I did. 'Ow did you think 'twas me, guv'nor?
But you guv me yer han', Miss Amy, an' thar's mine on it agin; I'm goin' to be a man." She took the great horny palm in both her hands. "You make me very happy," she said, simply, looking at him above the head of his child, "and I'm sure your wife is going to help you. I shall enjoy the holidays far more for this visit. You've told us good news, and we've got good news for you and your wife.
To look at the old horse, even in his summer guise, was to recall the happiest moments of a sufficiently happy life. "I'd meant to guv it him pretty sharp," said Crop; "but I'll let him alone now. He'd 'a carried you, maybe, another season or two, with a good strong dressin'; but them legs isn't what they was.
'Ay, little Tim Macavoy, he says, says he, 'you've bin 'atin' the husks av idleness long enough; when are you goin' to buckle to? You had a kingdom and ye guv it up, says he; 'take a field, get a plough, and buckle to, says he, 'an' turn back no more' like that, says Father Corraine; and I thinkin' all the time 'twas the want o' me belt he was drivin' at."
"Why, old Hank Handcraft come out in that crazy launch uv his and guv it ter me," rejoined the captain. "I ought ter hev told yer that in the first place, but I was all took aback and canvas a-shiver when yer tole me yer never wrote it." "Hank Handcraft," repeated Rob. "He's that queer old fellow that lives in a hut away down the beach?" "Yes, and a bad character, too," replied the captain.
With hearts audibly beating, the listeners bend their ears to catch what may come next, both conjecturing the import of the sounds that have already reached them, and this with instinctive correctness. Walt is the first to give speech to his interpretation of it. "They're at the shanty now," he says, in a whisper. "The two houn's guv tongue on hearin' 'em approach.
"That'll be no sugar in your tea t'night, old viciousness! But, sir, I'd rayther not " "Don't 'eed 'im, Guv don't 'eed the flappin' flounder. If 'e wont obleege ye in a little matter like thirty dollars, I will I'll always obleege you " "That's enough from you, old tombstones."
I know what I'm a saying of, and what I'm a doing of." "I wish they'd given you something more with all my heart," said Crawley. "We knows that," cried the woman from the bed. "We is sure of that, your reverence." "Sixpence!" said the man, scornfully. "If they'd have guv' me nothing at all but the run of my teeth at the public-house, I'd 've taken it better. But sixpence!" Then there was a pause.
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