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"I have only been defending your property, father," said Eben, sullenly. "I thought you'd appreciate it better than this." "You've charged an innocent boy with theft, and now all his friends will lay it up agin' us." "Were you going to be robbed without saying a word?" asked Eben. "No, I'm not, Eben Graham; I'm goin' to say a word, and now's the time to say it. You can't pull wool over my eyes.
"I don't know, ma. I may. It's all owing to whether we can agree on the terms of starting over." "You ain't goin' t' lay down rules t' him?" the mother cried in amazement. "Now's my time to find out what rules he's going to lay down to me at least," Elizabeth said dryly. "But I never heard of such a thing! Say, don't you love 'im any more, Lizzie?" "I I think I do, ma," Elizabeth said slowly.
Then he got up, smiling, as the servant disappeared. "Well, Duggy, now's your chance. I'm a brute not to come and help you, my boy. But I've made such a mess of driving the family coach, you'd really better take a turn. I shall go out for an hour. Then you can come and report to me."
The cries were repeated, and then came a rush of feet just outside the cabin door. "Our guards! They're leaving!" shouted Tom. "Right!" exclaimed Captain Weston. "Now's our chance! Come on! If we're going to escape we must do it while the storm is at its height, and all is in confusion. Come on!" Tom tried the door. It was locked.
I do believe ole Verity 'ad a 'and in it." Which shows that Captain Coke confused Providence with David Verity, and goes far to prove how ill-fitted he was to theorize on the ways of Providence. "Five bells, miss! It'll soon be daylight. If you wants to see the Cross, now's your time!" Iris had been called from dreamless sleep by a thundering rat-tat on her cabin door.
Now's a good time to prove or to disprove it. Let's snap back to Tellus and find out." "We'll do that, after a little more experimenting. You see, I had no intention of giving us such a long push. I was going to throw the switches over and back, but you know what happened.
"There now's the old Mogul," soliloquized Stubb by the try-works, "he's been twigging it; and there goes Starbuck from the same, and both with faces which I should say might be somewhere within nine fathoms long. And all from looking at a piece of gold, which did I have it now on Negro Hill or in Corlaer's Hook, I'd not look at it very long ere spending it.
The better sort of people in the village were very much pleased, nobody except Goody Grace was dissatisfied, and people told her that was only because she was old and given to grumbling at everything new. Blane the Smith tapped Stead on the shoulder, and said, "Hark ye, my lad. If it be true that thou wast in old Parson's secrets, now's the time for thou know'st what."
"Now's our time," said he, as he proceeded to unlock one of the trunks that contained his books. "Now or never." "I am with you," replied Tom, catching the idea. The books of the latter were in a box, and he was obliged to get a hammer to open it; but with Bobby's assistance he soon got at them.
Again Crocker spoke: "Come, Jedge, it's your turn." The sharp, loud words seemed to break the spell which had paralyzed the man. He moved to the table, and slowly drew the revolver from under the cloak. His hesitation was too much for the crowd. "Throw it through him, Jedge! Now's your chance. Wade in, Jedge!" The desperate ferocity of the curt phrases seemed to move him. He raised the revolver.
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