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His beautiful face quivered with amusement, and he cried triumphantly, "D'ye see me? d'ye see me noo, Brockburn?" "Aye, aye," said the Laird; "and seein's believin'."
They're all beatin' it, all except Mr. Thane, and he says he don't want any more. He says he ain't feelin' well and thinks he'll go up to his room and lay down for a while." "Well, seein's you don't need that coal, Jennie, I guess I'll mosey along and see if I c'n be any help to Amos. This jest goes to show what an ijit I'd ha' been to let my pipe go out."
"I'm still ready to say that it's all right and legitimate; but I'm through with it." "Then, just for the sake of old times, Bob, an' seein's how we haven't come into possession of quarter of an oil-well, let us open your well for you," pleaded Jim.
"Seein's believin'. If you'll show him to me, or me to him..." "Oh! don't talk of it." Dahlia struck her fingers in a tight lock. "I only want to set eye on him, my gal. Whereabouts does he live?" "Down down a great very great way in the West." Anthony stared. She replied to the look: "In the West of London a long way down." "That's where he is?" "Yes."
That's how we came to make her acquaintance, my revered employer, Mister Monk, and I through the skipper, I mean." Phinuit paused to consider, and ended with a whimsical grimace. "I'm talking too much; but it doesn't matter, seein's it's you. Strictly between ourselves, the said revered employer is an annointed fraud. Publicly he's the pillar of the respectable house of Monk.
"Hearsay! just hearsay!" ejaculated Allison, contemptuously. "Who's seen him, I should like to know? Seein's believin', they say." "Mr. Smith has," said Burney, a ring of triumph in his voice. "He were there when old Mr. Lessing died." There was silence for a moment.
"But I'll tell you this, Bawbie; when I was jookin' alang by the roppie, tryin' to get hame, it's as fac's ocht, I thocht twa-three times o' gaen plunk in amon' the water, an' makin' a feenish o't. I was that angry an' ashamed. But, man, I ran up throo the yairds, without onybody seein's, an' got in at the skylicht.
Johanna glanced up with injured surprise and then tittered, "Miss Barb wear a shawl fo' de Lawd's sa-ake! Why, Mr. March, evm you knows betteh'n dat, seh." Her glow of happiness stayed while she drew forth a letter and laid it by her cup of coffee. "Oh!" the sceptic tossed his head "seein's believin'; but I can't see so far off." Johanna could hardly speak for grinning.
This restored quiet so that the vender could demand payment for the damage she had swiftly estimated, and she thrust her hand toward the pair on the floor, saying, "Hand me over a dollar, and be quick about it! Ought to be more, seein's it'll take me half a day to straighten up and " "A dollar! Why why, I never had so much in my hull life! an' not a single cent now.
About one time in three, they tell us they don't want our fish, and won't take 'em unless we'll heave 'em in for next to nothin', and we know there ain't no sense in it. So we just thought we'd slip down and see ef you wouldn't take 'em, seein's you've got ice, and send 'em up with yourn." Eph was taken all aback with this mark of confidence.