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I tell you, if this here mare had a week spell, you could n't hold her; an' she'd go a hundred mile between sunrise an' sunset, at the same bat. Yes, boss; it's the breed does it. I seen some good horses about the King, but swelp me Gawd I never seen a patch on this mare; an' you might n't think it to look at her jist now. Fact is, boss, she wants a week or a fortnit spell.
Swelp me! gov'ner my lord, I mean. What I meanter say, if anything's 'appened to 'im! One of the best!" The two men went quickly towards the gate. As they passed down the quiet, dusty road Beale spoke again. "I wasn't no good I don't deceive you, guv'ner a no account man I was, swelp me! And the little 'un, 'e tidied me up and told me tales and kep' me straight.
And we thought perhaps you'd like to show him and get pennies; and if you like to pay us something, you can only, it'll have to be rather a lot, because we promised him he should have a double share of whatever we made." The woman murmured something indistinct, of which the children could only hear the words, "Swelp me!" "balmy," and "crumpet," which conveyed no definite idea to their minds.
'No, said Anthea bravely, but her heart beat so that it nearly choked her. Then one of the men pushed forward. 'Swelp me if it ain't! he cried, 'my own long-lost cheild! Have he a strawberry mark on his left ear? No? Then he's my own babby, stolen from me in hinnocent hinfancy. 'And 'im over and we'll not 'ave the law on yer this time.
I wouldn't show it to no one but you, swelp me, I wouldn't." He held the rattle out. Beale took it. "It's a fancy bit, I will say," he owned. "Look 'ere," said Dickie, "what I mean to say " He stopped. What was the use of telling Beale that he had come back out of the dream just for his sake? Beale who did not believe in the dream did not understand it hated it?
Do you want to come with me?" "That's about it". "But your foot's sick, you fool". "You'll carry me in your awms, as a father beareth his children...." "You are cool! What are you in for?" "Murder, my son-red, grim, gory murder!" "Guilty?" "Guilty, ya'as. What do you think?" "Then you may go to hell". "'Ell is it? I'm there: and if I linger longer loo in it, you linger, too, swelp me Gawd!"
"Look here!" she says to him, "I want the truth, the whole truth, an' nothin' but the truth about them fish, an' if I don't get it outer you I'll wring yer young neck for tryin' to poison me, an' save yer from the gallust!" she says to Tommy. So he told her the whole truth, swelp him, an' got away; an' he respected Mrs Hardwick arter that.
Howells's Willis Campbell, a witty and cultivated Bostonian, says, in The Albany Depot, "I guess we better get out of here;" Mr. Ade's Artie, a Chicago clerk, says, "I got a boost in my pay," meaning "I have got:" the locution is very common indeed. It is no more defensible than "swelp me" for "so help me."
For from the moment when the knife touched the wood Dickie knew that he had not forgotten, and that what he had done in the Deptford dockyard under the eyes of Sebastian, the shipwright who had helped to sink the Armada, he could do now alone in the woods beyond Gravesend. It was after dinner that Mr. Beale began to be interested. "Swelp me!" he said; "but you've got the hang of it somehow.
To the little tramp the whole thing was a new and entrancing game of make-believe. By evening they had seven-and-sixpence. "Us'll 'ave a fourpenny doss outer this," said Beale. "Swelp me Bob, we'll be ridin' in our own moty afore we know where we are at this rate." "But you said the bed with the green curtains," urged Dickie. "Well, p'rhaps you're right. Lay up for a rainy day, eh?
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