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"He was jus' in time, for he saw at de corner, where de street go down on to the wharves, de young captain separate from de men who had gone out wid him and walk away by hisself. Sam kicked off his shoes and ran as fast as he could to de end ob de street. De wharf was bery badly lighted, jus' a lamp here and dere.
"I knew it would come to it." "He have been and blowed hisself up," remarked Bob, who had stolen in after them. "Is it the gas?" sobbed Miss Amilly, hardly able to speak for terror. "No, it's not the gas," returned Jan, examining the débris more closely. "It's one of that gentleman's chemical experiments." Deborah West was bending over the prostrate form in alarm.
They was so pleased that I couldn't help feeling proud myself, and I barked and jumped and leaped about so gay, that all the bull- terriers in our street stretched on their chains, and howled at me. "Just look at him!" says one of those I had beat. "What's he giving hisself airs about?" "Because he's got one blue ribbon!" says another of 'em.
The man pointed it out: it was almost the first word he had spoken since they had left Hollingford. 'It's the old nursery. They carried him there. The squire broke down at the stair-foot, and they took him to the readiest place. I'll be bound for it the squire is there hisself, and old Robin too. They fetched him, as a knowledgable man among dumb beasts, till th' regular doctor came.
You're bound to die; and ef they didn't hang yer I'd shoot yer myself." "Well then," says he, "gi' me hold of the rope, and I'll show you how little I keer for death." He snatches the cord out o' my hands, pulls hisself out o' reach o' the crowd, and sat cross-legged on the bough.
Accordin' to instructions I provided him wi' a rifle, but he didna seem to ken how to handle it. It was your orders, sirr, that he was to have means to defend hisself if the enemy cam on, so Amos gie'd him a trench knife. But verra soon he looked as if he was ettlin' to cut his throat, so I deprived him of it. Hamilton stopped for breath.
Whipple's his Grace o' Chartersea's man and, you'll forgive me, sir Whipple owns his Grace is prodigious ugly, an' killed young Mr. Atwater unfair, some think. Whipple says he would give notice had he not promised the old duke " "Drat Whipple!" I cried. "Yes, sir. To be sure, sir. His Grace was in a bloody rage when he found hisself in a fruit bin at Covent Carding.
"But the skipper may fall overboard and drown hisself next time, afore I gives him a helping hand." "Mutiny! mutiny!" cried the lieutenant. "Do you hear, Mr Leigh? The ship's crew are in open mutiny, and uttering threats. Fetch my pistols, sir," he cried, drawing his sword. "Cut down the first man who utters another word. Do you hear, Mr Leigh? Quick! my pistols!"
"State of affairs is, that all the orficers and you the doctor, along with the passengers, is prisoners, and Frenchy Jarette's skipper of the Burgh Castle, with that there rat of a 'prentice or middy, or whatever he calls hisself, first mate." "But where are we going?" said Mr Frewen. "Nobody knows but Frenchy, and there is times when I think he don't know.
Polly replied in an off-hand manner that she was sorry but her card was already full. Rad shrugged nonchalantly, and sauntering toward the door, disappeared for the rest of the night. When he turned up at Four-Pools early in the morning, his horse, Uncle Jake informed me, looked as if it had been ridden by "de debbil hisself."
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