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"You know that; in course I was," said Byers scornfully; "d'ye meanter say she didn't tell ye?" "She?" echoed Abner vaguely. "Your wife you said just now she didn't know it before." "My wife ez oncet was, I mean! Mary Ellen your wife ez is to be," said Byers, with deep irony. "Oh, come now. Pretend ye don't know! Hi there! Hands off! Don't strike a man when he's down, like I am."
Swelp me! gov'ner my lord, I mean. What I meanter say, if anything's 'appened to 'im! One of the best!" The two men went quickly towards the gate. As they passed down the quiet, dusty road Beale spoke again. "I wasn't no good I don't deceive you, guv'ner a no account man I was, swelp me! And the little 'un, 'e tidied me up and told me tales and kep' me straight.
But because a man can drink a glass of liquor a day, and live to be a hundred years old, my young readers must not infer that by drinking two glasses of liquor a day a man can live to be two hundred. "Which, I meanter say, it doesn't foller," as Joseph Gargery might observe.
"I mean, how long have you been employed here?" "Just over a month, miss." "Hasn't Mr. Kemp been in the office all that time?" "Name's new to me, lady. Does he look like anything? I meanter say, what's he look like?" "He has very red hair." "Never seen him in here," said the office-boy. The truth shone coldly on Sally.
"He's a decentish sort, don't you know? I meanter say, poor old Thomas did me an awfully good turn once and that!" Clara inferred from various hints that Gerald had once been in the English army, and had met Thomas, and befriended him, or been befriended by him, at that period of his existence.
So I did, first calling to Aunty Edith to ask if I might, and she came to the door and shook hands with him, over the fence, and said, "How do you do, Mr. Taylor. This is William Gordon, the son of Captain Gordon, I told you of." Then he said, "Sho, you don't meanter say it! I served under his grandfather." And Aunty Edith said to me, "William, Mr.
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