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He's jest got t' give me a chance." Marietta looked sober in sympathy. "Well! P'raps it's best to have it over with, Lime, but someway I feel kind o' scary about it." Lime stood for a long time looking in at the window, watching the light-footed girl as she set the table in the middle of the sun-lighted kitchen floor.
Then checked himself. "Oh, for not coming to your meeting. We hoped you would. Ellen was tired." "I couldn't bear to think of you p'raps going to bed and feeling that I was harbouring ill thoughts towards you, not realising that now I've got Jesus I'll forgive anything that anybody does against me!" His voice wallowed rhapsodically.
We, if the piebald stands at livery much longer, he'll stand at nothin' as we go back, and p'raps that 'ere harm-cheer 'ull be tipped over into some hedge or another, with the shepherd in it. At this supposition, the Reverend Mr. Stiggins, in evident consternation, gathered up his hat and umbrella, and proposed an immediate departure, to which Mrs. Weller assented.
"I did think o' sending Shock, so as to make him open the hole a bit more; but I thought p'raps the top'd fall in with sending the first one up, and you was more use than Shock, so I made the rope, as was loose, fast round your chest, and then I shouts to 'em as I lifted you up.
"Running Elk, chief among Crees. Long he lead them in the hunt and in battle. But a serpent come among my people and poison all against Running Elk. Now they think the half-breed Pierre La Motte best man to follow. Him talk, talk, all time, and warriors dream. Some day they wake up and know him for bad man. Then p'raps they ask Running Elk come back again. Wait, see!"
"P'raps you'll be so blanked polite as to show us how to capsize that blanked beast," he said, adding with bitter irony, "if it ain't too much to ask from such a blanked, pretty, drawing-room ornament!" "Oh, certainly! with all the pleasure in life!" responded Dandy Jack urbanely. "Will you kindly keep my pipe alight for a minute?"
He assured me he had many capital stories to tell me, and that he rather guessed he knew as much of the English, and a leetle, jist a leetle, grain more, p'raps, than they knew of the Yankees. "They are considerable large print are the Bull family," said he; "you can read them by moonlight.
Further discussion on this subject was prevented by Sawkins' arrival, nearly a quarter of an hour late. 'Oh, you 'ave come, then, sneered Crass. 'Thought p'raps you'd gorn for a 'oliday. Sawkins muttered something about oversleeping himself, and having hastily put on his apron, he went upstairs with Harlow. 'Now, let's see, Crass said, addressing Philpot.
He showed the tea to his companions, but did not give the pot into their eager hands till he had explained what he intended to do. "Me go 'way," he said. The white boys did not pay any attention to this remark. Here was something to drink, and they were parched with thirst. "Me go 'way," repeated Yarloo. "Me come back by'm bye.... P'raps me find um water ... p'raps me find um parakelia."
There's nothing the matter with the man." Cardillac's voice was amused. "Well, Dune, I daresay we can get on without you," he said. Lawrence said slowly, "Well, I don't know. P'raps it's mean on the man. I want a drink. I don't think I'm havin' any to-night, Cards." Cardillac was sharper. "Oh, nonsense, Lawrence, come along. It doesn't do the man any harm."
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