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"She'll be here soon, Jem," said one of them; "we couldn't have had a better night for such a job." "Too much light, for my taste," replied the other; "however, we must make the best on't. Our own mothers wouldn't know us in this disguise, and, without it, she would be too frightened to take particular notice of us. But are you sure she has the swag?"
His Mein and Person, but 'bove all his Humour, That surly Pride, though even to me addrest, Does strangely well become him. Oli. May I believe this? Am. Not if you mean to speak on't, But I shall soon enough betray my self. Enter Falatius with a patch or two on his Face. Falatius, welcome from the Wars; I'm glad to see y'ave scap'd the dangers of them. Fal. Oli. That's not so well, believe me.
Both dearly love to talk over all that's going on, and whether this or that village swain is paying especial attention to any one rosy cheeked lass, and if so "what's likely to come on't." Both mean well by this neighborly interest, and especially does Mrs. Sloper, who always advises plaits for stout women, "with middlin' fulness in the bust" for thin ones.
So I bid him a affectionate farewell, and we see the woman a lookin' out of the tent and witnessin' on't. But I didn't care. If a pair of companions and a pair of grandparents can't act affectionate, who can? And the world and the Social Science meetin' might try in vain to bring up any reeson why they shouldn't. So I went in, with my mind all took up with the grandchildern.
Anyway," he resumed, "she allowed she'd try it once, an' we agreed we'd go somewheres that night. But somethin' happened to put it out o' my mind, an' I didn't think on't agin till I got back to the hotel fer supper. So I went to the feller at the news-stand an' says, 'Got any show-tickits fer to-night? "'Theater? he says. "'I reckon so, I says.
Sez I, "Not after where we have been today, Josiah Allen." And he sez, "Why not?" And I sez, "It wouldn't look well, after visitin' the folks we have jest now." "Wall," sez he, "they won't speak on't to anybody, if that is what you are afraid on, or sense it themselves."
"Don't fret," the groom continued; "there'll be greet enough for thee when thou'rt older; for thou'lt have a hard time on't, or my name's not Dick Snaffle." We had a long way to reach the Wagon, which started from a Tavern called the "Pillars of Hercules," right on the other side of Hyde Park.
I ever knew thee as noble as I was base. Have I said enough to make you safe? Say that he will be safe now," he appealed to the others, "that no...." "He will be safe," said Lord Henry stoutly. "My word on't." "It is well. The past is past. The future is in your hands, Oliver. God's blessing on't." He seemed to collapse, to rally yet again. He smiled pensively, his mind already wandering.
But he could not treat his father thus reservedly; and he told. 'She has made great fools of us, said the miller deliberately; 'and she might have made us greater ones. Bob, I thought th' hadst more sense. 'Well, don't say anything against her, father, implored Bob. ''Twas a sorry haul, and there's an end on't. Let her down quietly, and keep the secret. You promise that?
"Tyburn Tree!" said he suddenly. "The nubbing cheat! 'Tis there I'm like to go one o' these days an' all along o' my kind 'eart with a curse on't. There were only three men in this 'ard world as knew o' this 'ere refuge, an' Ben Purvis was shot three year ago an' poor Nick Scrope swings a-top o' River Hill which left only me. An' now 'ere's you curse on my kind 'eart, says I!"
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