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Toby sat up excitedly, and shaking Charley into wakefulness, asked: "Does you hear un? Does you hear un?" "Hear what?" asked Charley, sleepily. "I don't hear a thing." "Hear the stillness!" explained Toby. "The water's not lappin'! The bay has fastened over! By to-morrow, whatever, we'll be leavin' here for Double Up Cove!" "Hurrah!" shouted Charley, now thoroughly awake. "Isn't it great, Toby!
Not on your life. Even if I had had all this dough when I left home to-night, I wouldn't have taken any such chance as leavin' it there. The feller I'm roomin' with is figurin' on turning over a new leaf; he's thinkin' of gettin' married for five or six months and I don't think he could stand temptation." "Do you mean to say, you acquired your roll after leaving home tonight, eh?"
"I'm leavin' in two days." "We're leaving in two days." They chewed gum for an interval. "Way it is," said Spike at length, "I'm nothing but about a fourth-rater in my game. I wasn't never a first-rater. I used to kid myself I was, but handier guys took it out of me. Never was better than a third-rater, I guess. But maybe in this other game I could git to be a first-rater. You can't tell.
"Nor do I bear malice," he rejoined, with a smile; "though the wrestling can hardly be considered fair when twenty pull one man down." "'Twas my crowd against yours," replied the Boss indifferently. "But I'm kinder sorry that you're leavin' the town. I'd never have left a place where I was beaten. No, sir; I'd have taken root right there an' waited.
Sanderson's grin grew grim. "It's a frame-up," he told himself. His grin grew saturnine. He got up, folded the withdrawal blank and stuck it in a pocket. "I'm leavin' the money here tonight," he said. "For a man that ain't been to town in a long while, there'd be too many temptations yankin' at me." He went out, leaving Maison to watch him from a window, a flush of chagrin on his face.
He must have been soft to have stuck there instead o' leavin' with the old woman. Didn't know me from Adam; took me for George!" At this affecting instance of paternal forgetfulness, Wise was evidently divided between amusement and chagrin. I took advantage of the contending emotions to ask about George. "Don't know whar he is!
He glanced at the noisy women as he spoke. "What's the row about?" asked Theo. "'Cause Mis' Carey said Mis' Green's baby was cross-eyed. Mis' Green got so mad at that that she's been scoldin' 'bout it ever since an' leavin' the baby to yell there by itself on the floor poor little beggar!
"I'm thinkin' we'll see no sign of un now to help us trail un to the rock the writin' tells about." "The ground was hard froze a week ago just as 'tis now," said Lige. "They'd be leavin' no tracks on froze ground." "They makes the tracks that shows here whether the ground were froze or not," observed Seth.
I had been unfriendly to my uncle for years, an' I was seen goin' to his rooms an' leavin' them that evening. My own suspicion was directed to Hull, especially when he an' Mrs. Hull at the coroner's inquest changed the time so as to get me into my uncle's apartment half an hour earlier than I had been there. I'd caught them in a panic of terror when I knocked on their door.
She didn't 'ave ter ask me for three 'apence ter get a drop of beer. Liza was wise in her generation; she held her tongue, and put on her hat. 'Now, you're goin' aht, and leavin' me; I dunno wot you get up to in the street with all those men. No good, I'll be bound. An' 'ere am I left alone, an' I might die for all you care.
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