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I've see'd a brig, with my own two eyes, squeezed together a'most flat by two big floes of ice, and after doin' it they jist separated agin an' let her go plump down to the bottom. Before she was nipped, the crew saved themselves by jumpin' on to the ice, and they wos picked up by our ship that wos in company."
But here I stood above a sleeping city of men, and far above me, so far that I could only hear them, holding their northward way through the starlit sky, they passed whither? and how guided? Was the shining dome of the State House a beacon? Did they mark the light at Marblehead? ... the chylde may Rue that ys vn-born, it wos the mor pitte. There was murder in my heart. The woodchuck knew it.
You must share it, you know. Knocks at Mrs. Jack and Jim. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am. Exit MATTIE into MRS. CLIFFORD'S. Jim. Now, Jack, what's it to be? Jack. I believe I shall spend it in St. Martin's Lane. Jim. A ha'p'orth on it's mine, you know, Jack. Jack. Well, you do put the stunners on me! Jim. She said we wos to divide it she did. Jack. 'Taint possible. It beats my ivories.
It's too much like treatin' them as if they wos Christians; and, you know, they couldn't be Christians if they wanted to ever so much. Besides, wotever name you gives 'em, there must be so many other dogs with the same name, that you stand a chance o' the wrong dog comin' to 'e ven you calls." "That's a strange reason. How then do you call him to you?"
'Twas smooth water wi' us, for 'twas a scug there, but white enough was all beyont the point; and passing the finger-stone, not forty fathom from the shore o' the island, Bill and me pullin' and he sittin' in the stern, poor lad, up he rises, a bit rabblin' to himself, wi' his hands lifted so. "'Look a-head! says I, thinkin' something wos comin' atort us. "But 'twasn't that.
Well, it wos one o' the brown walrusses, which is always the fiercest; and the moment he got the first harpoon he went slap at the man that threw it; but the fellow backed out, and then a cry was raised to let it alone, as it wos a brown walrus.
If you have, don't expect me to befriend you when you get back to England. If you have, don't expect me to keep your secret. Tellson's shall not be imposed upon." "I hope, sir," pleaded the abashed Mr. Cruncher, "that a gentleman like yourself wot I've had the honour of odd jobbing till I'm grey at it, would think twice about harming of me, even if it wos so I don't say it is, but even if it wos.
'And where's the thousands and hundreds of thousands your father was leaving you? Ten years ago come next Jeune he did die, my poor Griffey. 'Now, mother, don't humbug me about that. You know you were glad enough. Only let me have the money, unless you want me to leave the country, never to come back. 'Ach an wyr! How you be talking. You wos frightening me to death.
While the doctor adjusted the glass, Rokens muttered that "He wos sure it wos a bit o' the wreck," and that "there wos a bit o' rock as nobody couldn't easy git a t'other side of to look, and that that wos it, and the bit of wreck was there," and much to the same effect. "So it is," exclaimed the doctor.
'Leave off rattlin' that 'ere nob o' yourn, if you don't want it to come off the springs altogether, said Sam impatiently, 'and behave reasonable. I vent all the vay down to the Markis o' Granby, arter you, last night. 'Did you see the Marchioness o' Granby, Sammy? inquired Mr. Weller, with a sigh. 'Yes, I did, replied Sam. 'How wos the dear creetur a-lookin'? 'Wery queer, said Sam.
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