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Let a man only see his brither or his mither, or his faither, on the high road to destruction wi' drink, an' he'll change his opeenion aboot moderate drinkin' at least for hard drinkers ay, an' he'll change his practice too, unless he iss ower auld, or his stamick, like Timothy's, canna git on withoot it.
"Iss, fegs, he did, not a pistol-shot from us; and I saw mun stand on the poop, so plain as I see you; no great shakes of a man to look to nether; there's a sight better here, to plase me, and we was disappointed, we lads, for we surely expected to see mun with a goolden crown on, and a sceptre to a's hand, we did, and the ship o' mun all over like Solomon's temple for gloory.
Sim, I mind your huggin' a staved rum cask, and kissin' it, an' cryin', 'Aw, Ben dear Ben! an' 'After all these years! fancyin' 'twas your twin brother come back, that was killed aboard the Agamemny " "Well, well prettily overtook I must ha' been. "Iss, iss; be very mild, my sons, as 'tis so holy a day."
"No, it iss not Janet Macpherson, my dear, that will be believing Donald Cameron, or any Cameron although I am not saying that the Camerons are not men of their hands for Donald will be always making great stories and telling me wonderful things. "She will be asking many questions in her room as soon as Donald had brought up her boxes and the door was shut.
"You'll get my likeness tu, I s'pose, same as the photograph man done it last winter to Penzance? Me an' Joe was took side by side, an' folks reckoned 'twas the moral of us, specially when the gen'leman painted Joe's hair black an' mine yeller for another shillin' cost." "It must have been very excellent." "Iss, 'twas for sartain." "What did Mr. Tregenza say of it?"
"Iss," he said, eagerly, "I berry fond o' lunch. I fought smell um yesday when missie cook um." "Cook what?" I said. "Dat lunch, Mass' George."
But the man hass escaped with hiss spoil, whatefer it iss, und you only, Hendrik, know what it iss." Hendrik Martinus looked at Jacobus Huysman and Jacobus Huysman looked squarely back at him. The angry fire died out of the eyes of Martinus, and instead came a swift look of comprehension which passed in an instant.
As I came cautiously to the edge of the low cliff overlooking the Lost Sea of Korus I saw Thurid pushing out upon the bosom of the shimmering water in a small skiff one of those strangely wrought craft of unthinkable age which the Holy Therns, with their organization of priests and lesser therns, were wont to distribute along the banks of the Iss, that the long journey of their victims might be facilitated.
But between seven and eight o'clock to-morrow morning, there will arrive an English ship of war " "A sheep-of-t'e-war!" echoed Pelletan, growing pale. "Certainly, a ship of war, and from it there will disembark a man named Vernon and his suite of four or five people. You will give him apartment A." Pelletan caught his breath. "Monsieur Vernon iss, I suppose, a friend?" he stammered.
The pair lurked in the neighborhood of the ramshackle house watching the entrance, until toward evening, as the door opened to let out a tremulous wreck of a man, palsied with debauch, Schlichting observed: "That iss him. He hass been drinking again once." Average Jones hurried the musician around the corner into concealment. "You have been here before to meet Mr. Ransom?" "No."
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