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"Not precisely," I amended, and bowed in my best manner, "though 'tis undeniable I come to act as his representative." "Oh, joy to your success!" his Lordship sneered. "Harkee, sir," said I, "as you, with perfect justice, have stated, this is the devil's stronghold, and hereabouts his will is paramount; and, as I have had the honor to add, the devil is a gentleman.
And if you'll come to me I swear I'll tan your hides for naught." "Odds bodikins!" quoth Robin ruefully. "Mine own hide is tanned enough for the present. Howsoever, there be others in this wood I would fain see you tackle. Harkee, if you will leave your tan-pots and come with me, as sure as my name is Robin Hood, you shan't want gold or fee."
In the morning after the captain came on board, our first mate, according to custom, went to wait on him with a sick list, which, when this grim commander had perused, he cried with a stern countenance, "Blood and cons! sixty-one sick people on board of my ship! Harkee, you sir, I'll have no sick in my ship, by G d."
When she went into the dining-room she was very sober. Mr. Oliver was there; he had taken one of his men to a hospital, with a burned arm, too late in the afternoon to make a return to the foundry worth while. "Harkee, Susan wench!" said he, "do 'ee smell asparagus?" "Aye. It'll be asparagus, Gaffer," said Susan dispiritedly, dropping into her chair. "And I nearly got my dinner out to-night!"
"Why, harkee, master of mine," cried Peter, turning suddenly upon him with a countenance that almost petrified the patcher of shoes into a perfect lapstone, "dost thou pretend to meddle with the movements of government to regulate, and correct, and patch, and cobble a complicated machine, the principles of which are above thy comprehension, and its simplest operations too subtle for thy understanding, when thou canst not correct a trifling error in a common piece of mechanism, the whole mystery of which is open to thy inspection?
Harkee, you rascal! You have a fancy for my niece, have you? Well, your apple is ripe if you choose to pick it. Marry your charmer and be damned; and if you'll serve me by taking her thus in hand, I'll pay you twenty pounds upon your wedding-day. Now what do you say to that, you lousy beggar in borrowed clothes?" Our young gentleman stopped short and looked his tormentor full in the face.
Have you a person named Fenton in your establishment?" "Not, sir, that I know of; he may be here, though; but you had better inquire from the proprietor himself, who mark me, sir I say harkee you have humanity in your face will probably refuse to tell you whether he is here or not, or deny him altogether.
Constans was about to retire discreetly, but Messer Hugolin raised his hand. "The writing is too fine for my eyes," he grumbled. "Read it for me, nephew; but, harkee! you will keep your mouth shut whatever its import." Then, in a sudden gust of passion: "A thousand plagues on that fool of an up-river factor who broke for me my reading-glass!
Am I to understand, Sir by this coolness, that our bargain is broken? that the two fortunes are not to be brought together, and that the lady is not to be your wife?" "Harkee, Mr. Van Beverout; one who is saving of his income and sparing of his words, can have no pressing necessity for the money of others; and, on occasion, he may afford to speak plainly.
"Harkee, Dandy," said he, not in the slightest degree displeased with him, although he affected to be so, "if you wish to remain in my service keep the secret of Miss Gourlay's residence a secret not only from me, but from every human being that lives. You have taken a most unwarrantable and impudent liberty in following her as you did.
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