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"I want to get into Arrecifos Lagoon as quickly as I can, even if we do lose a light spar or two. I'm no navigator, as you know, but I know the Solomons as well as any man, for I've been trading and nigger-catching there for six years at a stretch a long time ago; and out here, where we are, we're safe; there's a clear run of six hundred miles, free of any danger.
"How do you do?" pleasantly queried Arnold resolving to be congenial in spite of his instant distrust of the other. "I'm sorry we ran you down and ruined your boat, but I'm glad we got you aboard in time to save your life. It was a lucky accident." Advancing in his frank and friendly manner he held out his hand in greeting.
Oh, come, don't talk any more about it. It's a bargain, of course. And if there's anything I can do for you on the other side, I'll be only too happy to oblige." Jed rubbed his chin. "W-e-e-ll," he drawled, "there's one triflin' thing I've been hankerin' to do myself, but I can't, I'm afraid. Maybe you can do it for me." "All right, what is the trifling thing?"
'This here, Sir, rejoined Sam. 'I'm wery much afeerd, sir, that the properiator o' this here coach is a playin' some imperence vith us. 'How is that, Sam? said Mr. Pickwick; 'aren't the names down on the way-bill?
The fact is, I'm partial to the young woman myself! After that, I could but leave John to defend his young woman's belongings." "Gently!" exclaimed Master Arthur. "There is the Yew Walk." From this moment the conversation was carried on in whispers, to Bill's further mystification. The young gentlemen recovered their spirits, and kept exploding in smothered chuckles of laughter.
Folks'll say I'm trying to get the whole thing, when all I really want is the girl, the girl now. She'll not have much at best; and divided between her and her mother, there'll be little left for Mrs. Whately to go on livin' on, with Mrs. Judson's share taken out. Now, here's my point precisely, precisely. You take the widder yourself. You need a wife, and Mrs.
Still, I don't much mind; I'm a prince, and ought to be able to stand anything. Hold on, cloak, we'll make the best of it."
And I'm a little bit ashamed of myself to-night for living in such a world as this without having killed somebody." She hung her head and tried to walk by his side, instinctively shrinking back. He stopped to ask an officer the way to the Crittenden Mission.
"I'm very sorry," she said, "but wouldn't that," pointing to the carcass of the bear, "have made them curious?" But Low's logic was relentless. "By this time there would have been little left to excite curiosity, if you had been willing to leave those beasts to their work." "I'm very sorry," repeated the woman, her lips quivering.
"'Now this is where that bluff about bread on the waters comes in; an' it falls so pat on the heels of them devotions of mine, it he'ps brand it on my mem'ry. While I'm layin' thar, an' mighty likely while them coyotes is lunchin' offen my scabbard that a-way, along comes a rank stranger they calls Spanish Bill. "'I learns afterward how this Spanish Bill is hard, plumb through.
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