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"Well, there they was, afloat, but with their upper riggin' gone and the compass smashed flat. A howlin' no'thwester blowin' and fog thick as ever. Zach was a whimperin', fidgetin' old woman, Lafayette and Emulous was prayin' in the scuppers and that ain't an exercise they're used to, neither and even 'Bije was mighty shook up and worried he says he was himself.
Tommy wuz cryin', and Josiah wuz kinder whimperin', though for my sake he wuz tryin' to bear up. But I'll hang a curtain up before that seen and not take it down agin till we wuz all ontied and the sun wuz shinin' down on smoother waters.
"There's one we know well would be full cawpable of the same," affirmed Christie patting her biscuits into place and tucking the bread cloth deftly over them, "But I'd be sorry to see a meenister an' a session as wud be held up by one poor whimperin' little elder of the like of him." "Mr. Severn won't, I'm sure o' that!" said Mary trustingly, "but there comes Mrs.
"You've dishgraced yourself though that's no matter. You've dishgraced B Comp'ny, an' worst av all, you've dishgraced Me! Me that taught you how for to walk abroad like a man whin you was a dhirty little, fish-backed little, whimperin' little recruity. As you are now, Stanley Orth'ris!"
It was dark and I felt very cold and began to wish myself home in bed. "Ain't we most to the Dunkelbergs'?" I asked. "No not yet," he answered. I burst into tears and he hit me a sounding whack in the face with his hand. "No more whimperin'," he shouted. "Do ye hear me?"
"Well an' good do you know fwhat ut is, ye skulkin' ditch-lurkin' dogs! Get a doolie, an' take this whimperin' scutt away. There will be more heard av ut than any av you will care for." 'Vulmea sat up rockin' his head in his hand an' moanin' for Father Constant. "Be done!" sez O'Hara, dhraggin' him up by the hair. "You're none so dead that you cannot go fifteen years for thryin' to shoot me."
For he's that tender-hearted and keerless of money having his own share in this Ledge that ef that girl came whimperin' to him he'd let her take the 'prop' and let the hull thing slide! And then he'd remember that he had rewarded that gal that broke the old man's heart, and that would upset him again in his work. And there, you see, is just where WE come in!
We was all respectable then, an' one of them says, 'The Lord help you, Mr. Brown! She's begun ag'in. He didn't speak, but just lifted her up an' put her on the bed, and then he sat down and covered up his face with his hands, an' was so still I thought he was dead too. I crawled up to him whimperin', an' he lifted me up. "'Jack, he says, 'my heart's broke.
Nice lot o' numbskulls you be, an' whimperin' 'round now expectin' of us to take you back well, I reckon not, not on your measly lives," and with that he raised his revolver to fire again at Divine. The society man toppled over backward into the pit behind the breastwork before Ward had a chance to pull the trigger.
I had 'em grouped conspicuous and dramatic; and, with Mrs. Flynn's straw lid tilted on one side, and the youngster whimperin' to be let loose among the flowers, and the baby sound asleep with its mouth open, the picture was more or less pathetic. At the far end of the garden path was a different sort of scene. Ella May was making Mr.
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