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"Well," I says to her, "if you won't, I will. It'll give 'em both an even chance. Us'n die pretty near together, me and you, Hannah, it'll be a toss-up," I says. Wasn't that fair? Leonora made no reply. 'Wasn't that fair? he repeated.
He drew out of me all my story questioned me about the way "Lunnon folks" lived, and whether they got ony shooting or "pattening" whereby I found he meant skating and broke in, every now and then, with ejaculations of childish wonder, and clumsy sympathy, on my accounts of London labour and London misery. "Oh, father, father! I wonders they bears it. Us'n in the fens wouldn't stand that likes.
An' the way ye handled yer ice boat in the pursuit of knowledge-gettin' was simple miraculous! No, I ain't a-frettin' over yer larnin'-gettin'; it's the us'n' of the same as is stirrin' me now. With such edication as ye've got in spite of storm an' danger, ye ought to be shinin' over on the mainland 'mong the boarders!" "Boarders!" sniffed Janet, tossing her ruddy mane; "boarders!
'Oh yes; a year and three days. We're quite used to it. 'Us'n be in h-ll in a minute, wench! exclaimed Dan, calmly changing the topic, as Harold swung the car within an inch of a brewer's dray, and skidded slightly in the process. No anti-skidding device would operate in that generous, oozy mud.
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