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Surrender peaceful and you will not he damaged; resist and we'll blow you to hell an' gone, even at the risk of injurin' the women and childern. The law is no respecter of persons. Throw up your hands!" He waited impressively, but either through stupefaction or obstinacy the robbers failed to lift their hands.
Your wicked agent appears to befriend you now, but he will lead you to certain destruction. Come with me, and I will save you." "Off!" cried Jennet, repelling her with furious gestures. "Off! ey winna ge wi' ye. Ey winna be saved, os yo term it. Ey hate yo more than ever, an wad strike yo dead at my feet, if ey could. Boh as ey conna do it, ey win find some other means o' injurin' ye.
"They're right there. Martin won't like it. They'll be lucky if he doesn't flay them alive for' doin' it." "But why, Aunt Ellen? Why?" inquired Lucy. "Because the Howes hate us, root an' branch; because they've injured an' insulted us for generations, an' are keepin' right on injurin' an' insultin' us. That's why!" Ellen's wrath, which had waned a little, again rose to a white heat.
"That's got to come down, that tree," said Rufus meditatively. His companion turned on him. "You would cut down that splendid tree?" He regarded her suddenly vital expression admiringly. "Why not, little one?" he asked. "It's makin' the house damp and injurin' property. Property, you understand. Property.
Why can't they realize that it haint only themselves they are injurin', but them that are bound to 'em by the most sacred ties that folks can be twisted up in?
"Faith, I dare say you could," replied Woodward; "a dose that would free them from care of all sorts, as well as jealousy." "I don't mane that," said the skeleton; "ha, ha! you're a funny gentleman, and maybe I but no I don't mane that; but widout injurin' a hair in either o' their heads."
"May be not," said Phats; "Hycy will take care o' that; he has him set; he'll work him a charm; he'll take care that Bryan won't be long in a fit way to offer himself as a match for her." "More power to him in that," said Philip; "if he makes a beggarman of him he may depend on us to the back-bone." "Have no hand in injurin' Bryan M'Mahon," said Kate.
"What writin', an' whar did ye git any writin' of mine? It's some mean trick!" he shouted, jumping to his feet. "This villain has come here fer the purpose of injurin' me! I tell ye it's false! it's false!" "But what about this?" Stephen insisted, calmly holding up one of the papers. "And there are others." "What is it? What is it? Read it, Steve," came the cry from the audience.
He reached the point of cajolery, and assumed friendship, as: "Well, Brutus, how are you, old boy? How did you like the last feed? I'm afraid this travellin' round in confinement, on wheels, is injurin' your complexion. Of course you would like to be footin' it like the rest of us. I reckon it would be better for you, but it might be bad for some of us two-legged fellows. Eh, bully boy?"
"I have known them as spent all their lives a' injurin' of others, and no harm seemed to come to 'em. And I've seed them as wouldn't touch a fly and always doin' their neighbours a kind turn, wot never 'ad a day's luck." "Let us hope it will be made up in the next world," said Lady Engleton.
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