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"I'll have the best house, and the handsomest wife, and the largest estate in the country." "You'll buy your wife with your money?" asked Judy. "Easy," said Joe, grinning. "I don't care 'twont be me," said Judy. "I pity the woman." "Why?" said Joe. "She'll have everything she wants, too." "Excepting the right person," said Judy.
Ye'll find plenty o' use fer 'em arter a while, 'n' 'twont be long, nuther. I know what I'm talkin' 'bout; I've been thar!" This conversation took place a day or two before Si bade farewell to his mother and sister Marier and pretty Annabel and left the peaceful precincts of Posey County to march away with the 200th Ind. for that awful place vaguely designated as "the front!"
Zeke handed him half-a-dozen matches. "I dunno how many 'twill take," said John. "S'pose we go round together and light up. 'Twont' take us a quarter of an hour, an' we can talk by the way." Ten minutes later, Captain Tangye, across the harbour, shut his telescope with an angry snap.
"'Tain't no biznuss of yourn if I do," the old man savagely replied. "Maybe not. But cool off, now, and be reasonable. You'll be sorry enough for what you've done already, and if you were to do more you'd have to stand your trial for murder." "'Twont be for murderin' her w'en I gits in de jug. But I'll murder you if yer don't leave dis place right off."
I heard your father say he was going to make avenues and terraces with this." "What are avenues?" "Roads, drive-ways." "What are terraces?" Jim laughed aloud. "I guess," he said, "if you don't get to be a Squire yourself some day 'twont be for want of asking questions."
"But don't you miss him very much, Aunt Chloe?" asked Evelyn softly, her voice tremulous with the thought of her own beloved dead, and how sorely she felt his absence. "Yes, chile, sho I does, but 'twont be for long; Ise so ole and weak, dat I knows Ise mos' dar, mos' dar!"
'Twont make a mort o' difference to me, because I've made up my mind as it's time for me to knock off the sea and settle down snug and comfortable ashore for the rest of my days. I be that bad wi' the rheumatics that I've got to get the cabin boy to help me put on my clothes, and when there be a sea runnin' and the ship do roll a bit I can't sleep for the pain in my j'ints.
"Stop, come back here," shouted the Doctor, at the top of his voice. The old man reluctantly obeyed. Approaching within a short distance of the Doctor, he motioned that individual towards him. "O, Doctor, 'twont do fur to go furder," said he; "'tween you and me, I've heern say, that's jist the way them robbers do, when they want to ketch anybody. There goes that yell agin.
'Twont do us no harm, nohow, I'd like to be home to-morrer 'n' go to church with mother, 'n' sister Marier, 'n' er I mean the rest of the folks. Then I'd jest eat all the afternoon. I ain't goin' ter git homesick, Shorty; but a feller can't help feelin' a little streaked once 'n' a while. Mebbe it's a good idee fer 'em to keep us on the jump, fer then we don't git no chance to think 'bout it.
"What! so soon? Why, Lord bless you, Flipflap has scarcely got in motion yet. If such a stir will do for your nag 'twont do for him." But Stevens doggedly kept his horse's head along the back track, though the animal himself exhibited no small restiffness and a disposition to go forward. "Well, really, Parson Stevens, I take it as unkind that you turn back almost the very moment I join you.
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