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I've took real comfort in learning him all I could. But I'm afeerd, sometimes, he's on a down-grade and the brakes don't work." "You mean that he drinks, don't you, father?" asked the sharp-eyed boy at his elbow. "There, father!" interjected the mother. "You might 'a' known he'd onderstan', no matter how you put it!"
"An' bein' ez I hev hed a hard day's ironin', I hev got a stitch in my side." "I'd onderstan' that better if ye hed hed a hard day's sewin'," said Justus. He was in high feather, eager, jubilant, drinking in all the rich and subtle flavors of success with the gusto of personal triumph. "He air prouder'n Wat," more than one observer opined.
Edyth Vale, pale of face, but with steady eye, returned his look. "What are you going to do?" she asked. "I am sorry to do anything," spoke the stranger. "I do not know you, and you will onderstan', will you not, that I can't leave you behind to talk?"
"Sure he don't onderstan' ye," exclaimed Larry, as he bustled in an energetic way amongst his pots and pans. "Let me try him with Cree," said Roy, kneeling beside his sister, "I know a little a very little Cree." Roy tried his "very little Cree," but without success. "It's o' no use," he said, "father must talk to him, for he knows every language on earth, I believe."
It mak' me sing inside; it mak' me warm an' glad. I w'isper in her ear, 'Ma soeur! Ma petite soeur! It's your beeg broder 'Poleon dat spik. He's goin' mak' you well, an' every tam she onderstan'. But now " A sob choked the speaker; he opened his tight-shut eyes and stared miserably at the two old men. "I call to her an' she don' hear. Wat I'm goin' do, eh?" Neither Linton nor Quirk made reply.
"Well, it don't matter what it means it's nothin' or nonsense, if you like but wot do you mean, old man, `that's the rub, as Hamblet, or some such c'racter, said to his father-in-law; you ain't in airnest, are you?" "Jowin," answered the Chief, with immovable gravity, "I not onderstan' you. Wot you mean by airnest?"
Oncle Jazon probably felt that his kindness had been ineffectual, for he changed his tone and added: "But I s'pose a young feller like ye can't onderstan' w'at it is to love a 'oman an' 'en hev 'er quit ye for 'nother feller, an' him a buck Injin. Wall, wall, wall, that's the way it do go!
Then, leaning forward in his chair and glaring at the girl, "Ay, and mair than that! The night the lad set on me he cam'" with hissing emphasis "straight from Kenmuir!" He paused and stared at her intently, and she was still dumb before him. "Gin I'd ben killed, Wullie'd ha' bin disqualified from competin' for the Cup. With Adam M'Adam's Red Wull oot o' the way noo d'ye see? Noo d'ye onderstan'?"
Take your gun and start off across the flat, down the way Cliff will come. Act like you didn't want to be seen. There's somebody across on the hill, up here, and I want to see if he'll follow you. You get me?" "Si, yes. I'm go." "After awhile you can come back. If you see Cliff, tell him he's after ducks. Sabe?" "Yo se. I'm onderstan'." "All right.
He gazed with an open mouth and puzzled, blear eyes at the woman before him. "You and me," he said slowly, with an utterance suspiciously slow and thick "you and me ha' kep' comp'ny, so to speak, fer a sight o' years, Dinah. We never had no fallin's out, this mander, afore, as I can call ter mind. I don't rightly onderstan' what you ha' got agin me come ter put it into wards."
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