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'Why, says Tom, 'the fust I knew I was lyin' on my back under the apple-trees lookin' up at the stars. Miry she jest walked off home and said nothin' to nobody, it wa'n't her way to talk much about things; and, if it hedn't ben for Tom Beacon himself, nobody need 'a' known nothin' about it.
Wall, Miss Huff, Miss Cephas Huff, wouldn't give anything because one of the little Smedleys had lied to her. She wouldn't encourage lyin'. And I told her I didn't believe she would be half so apt to reform him on an empty stomach, as after he wuz fed up. But she wouldn't yield. Wall, Miss Daggett said she would give, and give abundant, only she didn't consider it a worthy object.
The things he does my, my, the things he does!" She threw up her hands with an air of distraction. "Well, and what does he do, Madame?" asked the Avocat simply. "An' what he says, too the awful of it! Ah, the bad sour heart in him! What's he lyin' in his bed for now an' the New Year comin' on, whin we ought to be praisin' God an' enjoyin' each other's company in this blessed wurruld?
"Thar had been a little skirmish, one o' these that never get into the dispatches that don' do any good, but after which thar's always good men lef' lyin' on the ground.
You'll be burned out of here like the dirty, murdering pirate that you are you and your whole crew. The law will have you, my man it will have you by the neck. Do you think I risked coming to this place without leaving word behind me of where I was bound for and what I was after?" "Now ye be lyin'," said the skipper, coolly. "Ye telled the truth about Dick Lynch; but now ye lie.
Not on'y for a hypocrite; but for a pi'son, 'ceitful, lyin' white nigger!" said Katie, with her eyes snapping. "Katie, Katie, you are using ugly words," remonstrated the judge. "Not half so venomous ugly as dem I applies 'em to, begging your pardon, ole marse," said the woman, with a positive nod of her head.
"You ain't supposed to know a thing about what's been goin' on to-night, eh?" I asks. Nelse, he shrugs his shoulders. "Aye yust know about work," says he, lyin' free and easy. "That's a swell motto to pin on the wall," says I. "But listen, Nelse, while I put a case to you.
All the color was out of his face, his lip quivering. "Whoever said I said a word against you, Mrs. Grogan, is a liar." It was the last resort of a cowardly nature. "Stop lyin' to me, Pete Lathers! If there's anythin' in this world I hate, it's a liar. Ye said it, and ye know ye said it. Ye want that drunken loafer Dan McGaw to get me work.
"Fust off, they're dead in love with each other, an' we uns all knows how that makes people feel even in the dead o' winter, an' when they ain't a penny in their pockets; they're as good-hearted as they kin be an' es hansum' an' they're rich, an' they was married this mornin', an' they're comin' home with Tom D'Willerby to a place an' folks that loves 'em an' the very country an' the things that grows seems as if they was dressed out for a weddin'. An' it's Sheba as Tom took me to look at lyin' in her little old wooden cradle in the room behind the store."
I walked Dr. Warbottom's horse up and down a deal of times while he were inside, where they wouldn't let me go, though I fair ached to see her. "She'll be better i' noo, lad better i' noo," he used to say. "Tha mun ha' patience." Then they said if I was quiet I might go in, and th' Reverend Amos Barraclough used to read to her lyin' propped up among th' pillows.
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