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"I lammed him, as I'd have lammed Robert Bruce if he'd lied to me." The Boy stared at this sudden incursion into history, but all he said was: "Your dinner's waitin'." The minute Mac got inside he looked round hungrily for the child. Not seeing him, he went over and scrutinised the tumbled contents of the bunks. "Where's Kaviak?" "P'raps you'll tell us." "You mean he isn't here?"
She started in his hold at the question, and then quickly gave herself fully back to him again. "I don't know a bit. You'll have to ask mother. P'raps she may not allow it at all." "Ho! Won't she?" said Sir Eustace. "I think I know better. What about that trip on the yacht in July? Can you be ready in time for that?" "Oh, I expect I could be ready sooner than that," said Dinah naïvely.
"I'll be as dumb as a ship's lead." "I mean I didn't mean to speak roughly to you, Tom Fillot," cried Mark, eagerly. "I didn't want to wound you, but I know you were saying all that to try and cheer me." "Well, sir, to be downright honest, p'raps it was." "Then don't please. I'm sick and faint, and ready to die." "Nay, not you, sir. Too much pluck in you." "Pluck!" cried Mark, bitterly.
Nick stood still and thought for a moment, looking as sad as if he had earnestly desired the Model for himself, which was, of course, the impression conveyed. Timothy Moriarty, White Orchard, Oregon. "Oh, sir!" she exclaimed, flitting up to Nick. "P'raps you don't remember me, but I'm maid to Mrs.
A prick from Kaipi's knife blade would not make him budge an inch, and we clustered together and racked our brains to find the solution. "P'raps we're up against something," whispered Holman, "Feel if there's anything in front, Verslun." I walked forward a pace and groped in the blackness. My fingers touched solid rock. It hemmed us in on all sides.
'But I thought that you might, like me, be interested in freeing slabes. "'Dat I am, I said, 'dough I had neber thought much about it. "'You hab heard, p'raps, she said, 'ob de underground railway. "'Yes, ma'am, said I. 'Dat is de blessed 'stitution which smuggles slaves across the frontier. "'Dat is it, she said, 'and I belongs to it. "'Does you, missy? me says. 'De Lord bless you.
But I am not sure that that's the reason either, because, you know, we often sail through them without seeing the light, though of course they must be there." "P'raps, sir," said Tom Lokins; "p'raps, sir, they're sleepy sometimes, an' can't be bothered gettin' angry." "Perhaps!" answered the captain, laughing.
The face of the Indian flushed and he protested: "Deerfoot would be only a pappoose in the hands of my brother." "P'raps, but you'd never be in his hands. I've studied your build and quickness, and the chap that can whip a Blackfoot war chief without using a weapon is the best fellow in the world to let alone I beg pardon, Deerfoot. I'll drop it.
"Are they in the drawing-room, Andrews?" "Yes, ma'am." "Oh!" For a second Toni hesitated, then common sense came to her rescue. "I will come, Andrews. Fanny, will you come with me?" "Oh, do let me stay here," begged Miss Gibbs, who was still endeavouring to make herself tidy. "I'm such a sight, playing with the dog but you go, Toni ... and p'raps they won't stop long."
"P'raps they would and p'raps they wouldn't, my lad; but, of course, you don't know that there's the little Revenue cutter that's looking out for any little bit of smuggling going on?" "Why, what nonsense you're talking, Eben! Of course I knew." "Yes, of course you did, my lad; and you've got a spy-glass, haven't you!" "No; but I use my uncle's."
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