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Nobody ever know'd just how 't happened Steve was th' soberest man I ever knowed; never drunk a drop o' nothin' but one day, as he was walkin' out home, No. 15, that was th' slow freight from Boston t' Newport, ketched him an' got in its work on him an' that was th' end o' Steve. It didn't kill him right smack off, an' I went down t' see him; for I did think th' world of old Steve.
Not much she did! Oh, come, Susan, wake up! She'll be walkin' off with him right under your nose if you don't look out," finished Mrs. McGuire with a sly laugh, as she took her departure. Left alone, Susan sat for some time absorbed in thought, a deep frown on her face; then with a sigh and a shrug, as if throwing off an incomprehensible burden, she opened the paper Mrs. McGuire had left with her.
In all the months of his repining she had not seen him so, full of warm passion, of a steady purpose. "Dorcas," he said, "I won't have it!" She answered in pure wonder and with great simplicity: "What, Newell? What won't you have?" He spoke slowly, leaving intervals between the words. "I won't have you ridin' with him, nor walkin' with him, nor with any man.
"Wonderful?" echoed the Captain, puffing his pipe vigorously, as was his wont when a little puzzled for an expression or an idea. "No, he ain't wonderful; that's not the word. He's a life-preserver, that's wot he is. None o' your hinflated injinrubber or cork affairs, but a reg'lar, hanimated, walkin', self-actin' life-preserver.
An' all the time it was a dirty little out-lyin' uninhabited island. We walked round it in a day, an' come back to our boat lyin' on the beach. A whole day Boy Niven kept us walkin' in circles lookin' for 'is uncle's farm! He said his uncle was compelled by the law of the land to give us a farm!" "Don't get hot, Pritch. We believed," said Pyecroft. "He'd been readin' books.
I ricollect as we was walkin' home that night Abram says, sort o' humble-like: 'Jane, hadn't you better git that brown merino you was lookin' at last County Court day? "And I says, 'Don't you worry about that brown merino, Abram. It's a-lyin' in my bottom drawer right now.
Her mother looked up quickly, peering at her over a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles, very much askew. "Where you been, Tessie?" "Oh, walkin'." "Who with?" "Cora." "Why, she was here, callin' for you, not more'n an hour ago." Tessie, taking the hatpins out of her hat on her way upstairs, met this coolly. "Yeh, I ran into her comin' back."
Some of these wall-eyed fellers who look jest as if they was walkin' in the shadow of Christ himself, right down the sunny road, now they can think of things en' do things that are really hell-bent." Jane covered her ears and ran to her own room, and there like caged lioness she paced to and fro till the coming of little Fay reversed her dark thoughts.
I gae a walkin' in the city, and the walls o' the hooses press in upon me as if they would be squeezing the breath frae ma body. The stones stick to the soles o' ma shoon and drag them doon, sae that it's an effort to lift them at every step. And at hame, I walk five miles o'er the bonny purple heather and am no sae tired as after I've trudged the single one o'er London brick and stone.
Such a precious loud hymn, Sammy, while the tea was a brewing; such a grace, such eatin' and drinkin'! I wish you could ha' seen the shepherd walkin' into the ham and muffins. I never see such a chap to eat and drink never. The red-nosed man warn't by no means the sort of person you'd like to grub by contract, but he was nothin' to the shepherd.
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