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'Stan' still, said the Yorkshireman, 'and doant'ee speak a morsel o' talk till I tell'ee. With this caution, John Browdie shook his head significantly, and drawing a screwdriver from his pocket, took off the box of the lock in a very deliberate and workmanlike manner, and laid it, together with the implement, on the floor. 'See thot? said John 'Thot be thy doin'. Noo, coot awa'!
"I wish you were going to have dinner with us." "That would be very agreeable to me, but I fear I cannot think of it upon this occasion." Edna sighed. She had hoped he might reconsider it. When he had left the room she went out into the kitchen to see Ellen of whom she was very fond. "Ellen," she said "are you going to stay in and cook Uncle Justus's Thanksgiving dinner for him?" "I am thot.
"Afraid?" he echoed, disdainfully. "Sure! But not for myself! You don' have mooch money to lose! But I mek eet a bet a good bet! I bet you two dolars thot eet thot eet don' be!" It was now the other who hesitated. But he did not hesitate for long.
"Aye, an' I'm grantun' all thot you say," she went on calmly. "But I am no referrun' tull thot. I am referrun' tull her wucked-headed an' vucious stubbornness. No more stubborn woman ever luv'd than Margaret Henan.
'Coom, retorted John, 'thot's tidy in you, thot is. If it wa'nt along o' you, we shouldn't know nought aboot 'un. Thou know'd 'un first, Tilly, didn't thou? 'I couldn't help knowing Fanny Squeers, John, returned his wife; 'she was an old playmate of mine, you know. 'Weel, replied John, 'dean't I say so, lass?
He never did me a mean turn." "Och! an' he nivver did anybody thot!" quickly put in Barney. "It wur ivver a good turn, av it wur anything at all, at all." And so, talking of Frank's virtues, the boys approached the camp. It was decided among them that Hodge should report the affair to Lieutenant Gordan, and they should all get into camp without being challenged, if possible.
On the other side we see a row of animated nome-standards of Upper Egypt, with the symbols of the god Min of Koptos, the hawk of Horus of Edfu, the ibis of Thot of Eshmunên, and the jackals of Anubis of Abydos, which drag a rope; had we the rest of the monument, we should see, bound at the end of the rope, some prisoner, king, or animal symbolic of the North.
"When a man rubs me the wrong way it kinder riles me, and I'm pretty apt to resent it. Yeou'd made a bet with old Silence if Frank hadn't happened araound, wouldn't ye?" "Oi would," confessed Barney. "Oi'd been just chump enough to go him for any owld sum up to foive hundrid dollars. All the same, Ephie, thot was foolishness on my part."
In Upper Egypt there was no such want of religious earnestness; there the priests placed the name of Philopator upon a small temple near Medinet-Habu, dedicated to Amon-Ra and the goddess Hâthor; his name is also seen upon the temple at Karnak, and on the additions to the sculptures on the temple of Thot at Pselcis in Ethiopia.
"The the lights aren't on, cabby," said one of them; "but I I can find my way all right." "The divil ye can, beggin' yer pardon," answered the other. "I'll jist go ahead of ye now an' " "No, cabby, I don't need help." "Jist to th' top of the shtairs, sor. I know ye're thot weak with sickness " The answer came like a military command, though in a voice heavy with weariness.
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