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"I didn't see yur a-comin' in, or I mout 'a spoke sooner. I've got a smart lick across the arm, an' I wur just a-tyin' it up as ye tumbled in thur. Who did 'ee think this child wur?" "I did not think you were anyone. I took you for a grizzly bear." "Ha! ha! ha! He! he! he! I thort so, when I heard the click o' your pistol. He! he! he!
I wan't right spread in the water, afore I heerd a plump, an' lookin' round a bit, I seed the painter hed left the log too, an' tuk to the water. "At fust, I thort he wur arter me; an' I drawed my knife with one hand, while I swum with the other. But the painter didn't mean fight that time.
"If I thort she was agoin' to throw us over, I'd cut her throat as soon as look at her!" snorts Gabbett savagely. "Jack ud have a word in that," snuffles the Moocher; "and he's a curious cove to quarrel with." "Well, stow yer gaff," grumbled Mr. Gabbett, "and let's have no more chaff. If we're for bizness, let's come to bizness." "What are we to do now?" asked the Moocher.
The sullen, stealthy face disgusted Holmes. He nodded, shortly. "Yoh've been kind to my little girl while I was gone," he said, catching his breath. "I thank yoh, Marster." "You need not. It was for Lois." "'T was fur her I comed back hyur. 'T was a resk," with a dumb look of entreaty at Holmes, "but fur her I thort I'd try it. I know't was a resk; but I thort them as cared fur Lo wud be merciful.
"I would 'a' told you, Johnnie," said the poor woman deprecatingly, "but I never knowed it myself till late last night, and I hadn't the heart to name it at breakfast. I thort I'd git a chance this evenin', but they come sooner'n I was expectin' 'em." "Never mind, Aunt Mavity," said Johnnie. "When I get a little used to it I'll be glad to have them all here.
"I dunno but yew be right," said Abner, thoughtfully, "I never thort on't ezzackly that way," and Isaiah Goodrich also expressed the opinion that there was "somethin into what Ezry says."
Taking both my hands and laying his brow upon them, he said, after a long interval of silence, "Mam cha klap ma thort!" "Mam dear, come back, please!" "Keep a brave and true heart, my prince!" was all that I could say; and my last "God bless you!" was addressed to the royal palace of Siam. To this young prince, Chowfa Chulalonkorn, I was strongly attached.
Father sent me a marked copy, and if you like I will read the article." "I should indeed like to hear it," said Aunt Marcia; "from what Randy says of him I think Timotheus must be an unique character." "He is truly an odd specimen," said Helen, "I cannot imagine what he would write." "Read it, do read it," said Randy, and Jotham read the following: "THORT.
"I kud jest see that the bar appeared to be still a tossin' the blanket, and not fur from whur we hed parted kumpny. "I thort this some'at odd; but I didn't stay to see what it meant till I hed put another hundred yards atween us. Then I half turned, an' tuk a good look; an' if you believe me, strangers, the sight I seed thur 'ud a made a Mormon larf.
I knew that, though the mob thort 'e was a dead 'un. An' wot does it mean? A day lost in the polis-court, an' a day lost on my pay-sheet, too." "Well," said Brett, "the twist you gave to the reins this morning meant several days added to your pay-sheet. Would either of you know the man again if you saw him?" This needed reflection.