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"Well, 'twas the ould story letters at first in plenty, then fewer, then none at all. Long before I came over to try my luck I'd lost all news of Jem: didn't know his address, even. Nor till to-day have I set eyes on um. He's bald-headed, me boy, and crooked-faytured, to-day; but I knew him for Jemmy in the first kick av surprise. "I was evicted this mornin', as I've towld ye.
Besides, he's bound by precedent to give ye your divorce, if the evidence is satisfactory. We won't let um know that Mrs. Dartie had knowledge of the facts. Dreamer did it very nicely he's got a fatherly touch about um!" Soames nodded. "And I compliment ye, Mrs. Dartie," went on Mr. Bellby; "ye've a natural gift for giving evidence. Steady as a rock."
"Our dear young friend wanted strength; and what we had to do was to give our dear young friend strength vital power. Yes er um, that was the chief point. And what kind of diet might our dear young friend take now? Was it a light diet, a little roast mutton not too much done, but not underdone? O dear, no.
I turned instantly, and, perceiving something black, concluded I was discovered by some spy, employed to watch for that purpose; aroused at this conjecture, by which the reputation of the virtuous Narcissa appeared in jeopardy, I drew my sword, and would have sacrificed him to her fame, had not the voice of Strap restrained my arm, it was with great difficulty he could pronounce, "D d d-do! mum um um murder me if you please."
At last they were launched: their marriage was really just beginning.... She snuggled closer to her husband under the common rug and murmured in his sleepy ear, "Isn't it great, Jack?" "What?" "Europe! Everything!... That we're really here on the steamer!" "Um!" "And you're going to be a great painter " "Perhaps." "What shall you do first?" "Don't know find a cab."
But still the strokes were directed wildly at the air, and never a blow fell on the little red horrors at his feet. "Ol' Doc, he say debbil-tree make um act that way," muttered the negro, as he ran, "pickney he think um crabs big as a mule!" Stuart, fighting for his life with what his tortured imagination conceived to be gigantic monsters, saw, coming along the beach, the semblance of an ogre.
"Um," mused Tom, "I wish I were going to be here, but I don't see how I can. I must give this test." But it was with a sinking heart as he thought of poor Eradicate that the young inventor proceeded to pile into his airship the largest and heaviest load of chemicals it had ever carried. "Well, what do you say, Tom?" asked Ned, in a low voice.
Captain Zelotes picked up a pencil on his desk and tapped his chin lightly with the blunt end. "Um," he mused. "Well, I presume likely he knew all about it." "He knew as much as most people," with a slight but significant hesitation before the "most." "Um-hm. Naturally, havin' been schooled there himself, I suppose." "He wasn't schooled there. My father was a Spaniard."
"Shore thing," he said, straightening up jauntily in his saddle, "that's my way! Be'n doin' it fer years, while you boys was killin' horses, but it takes Jeff hyar to see the p'int. Be gentle, boys, be gentle with um you don't gain nawthin' fer all yer hard ridin'." He cut off a chew of tobacco and tucked it carefully away in his cheek.
"Um!" ejaculated Joeboy, with a look of satisfaction in his eyes; "rifle gun reach long way. Boss Val see boy not driving well, pretend to send bullet in um head, and make um jump along. Ha!" Noticing that the black was using his hands like a binocular glass, and looking back, I asked anxiously, "What is it?" "Um? See Doppie coming now?"
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