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One shrill voice: 'Weed! 'Good agin! cried Riderhood. 'But it ain't weed neither. You'll never guess, my dears. Wot is it, besides fish, as they sometimes ketches in rivers? Well! I'll tell you. It's suits o' clothes. Bradley's face changed. 'Leastways, lambs, said Riderhood, observing him out of the corners of his eyes, 'that's wot I my own self sometimes ketches in rivers.
"It 'mazes me, sir," he said, "a gentleman o' your age and bringin' up to know all that you tould us this mornin'. It 'ud be no wonder now for a man like me, come to be the shock o' corn fully ripe leastways yallow and white enough outside if there bean't much more than milk inside it yet, it 'ud be no mystery for a man like me who'd been brought up hard, and tossed about well-nigh all the world over why, there's scarce a wave on the Atlantic but knows Old Rogers!"
"What's to be done about un now? What be you thinkin' to do?" "I don't know. I don't know what to do," answered Charley timidly. Toby's Dad put down the gun he was cleaning and wiped his hand on a cloth. "Leastways we'll make the best of un," he said, taking Charley's hand in a bear-like clasp. "Besides bein' Toby's Dad, I'm Skipper Zebulon Twig of Double Up Cove, and this is Mrs.
A'd have yo' to know a've a vast o' thoughts in myself', as I'm noane willing to lay out for t' benefit o' every man. A've niver gotten time for meditation sin' a were married; leastways, sin' a left t' sea. Aboard ship, wi' niver a woman wi'n leagues o' hail, and upo' t' masthead, in special, a could.
The craft will be your own; there will be no risk of the crew rising upon us for the sake of our cargo; and nobody to say `What are we doing here? or `What do you want there? Why, it will be a mere pleasure trip from end to end, all play and no work, leastways none to speak on!"
Life . . . life was, then, to be had leastways, a view of it, a good view of it was to be heard of, by special act of Grace, on Bade's Farm, at Adams' Forge of all places. So she dressed in her neatest, and was kinder than ever to Aaron, who was missing it. For she felt it was all just for her; she alone saw Mr. Jeminy for what he was, a grand, unusual peephole on the world.
'Rokesmith, said Mr Boffin one evening when they were all in his room again, and he and the Secretary had been going over some accounts, 'I am spending too much money. Or leastways, you are spending too much for me. 'You are rich, sir. 'I am not, said Mr Boffin. The sharpness of the retort was next to telling the Secretary that he lied. But it brought no change of expression into the set face.
"You're right," said Brother Bart: "And, though you haven't the true faith, you seem to be a Christian yourself. What is your name, my good man?" "Jeroboam Jimson," was the answer. "Leastways that was what I was christened, my mother going in heavy for Scripture names. I had a twin brother Nebuchanezzar. Sort of mouth-filling for general use, so we was naturally shortened down to Neb and Jeb.
It was main hot and the windy was open, and I hear that old song comin' out as clear as clear and the death-haul on the man already." "Come, come," said Silver, "stow this talk. He's dead, and he don't walk, that I know; leastways he won't walk by day, and you may lay to that. Care killed a cat. Fetch ahead for the doubloons."
The other nodded, and turned to resume his quiet stroll at a pace which made the mate hot to look at him. "He'll have to look sharp if he's going to catch her now," he said thoughtfully. "He won't catch her," said Henry; "he never does leastways if he does he only passes and looks at her out of the corner of his eye. He writes letters to her of a night, but he never gives 'em to her."
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