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"'What's the matter? ses the skipper, who just came up. "'This man has seen the sea-sarpint, sir, that's all, ses the mate. "'Y-y-yes, said Sam, with a sort o' sob. "'Well, there ain't much doing just now, ses the skipper, 'so you'd better get a slice o' bread and feed it. "The mate bust out larfing, an' I could see by the way the skipper smiled he was rather tickled at it himself.
Get ready immediately," said Madam, rising from table, and measuring out the supper portion of Alfaretta, the one small servant of a house which had once sheltered many. Then he also rose, but so languidly that "Alfy" stared, and, glancing toward his still full plate, inquired: "You sick?" "No, I ain't. I'm m-m-mad!" "At me?" "N-no. Y-y-yes. You're another of 'em. She's a g-g-girl.
"Rotten luck!" exploded Jud Elderkin, as he looked helplessly around, as if to see whether a fellow could at least jump ashore; but since ten feet of that ooze lay on either side, he failed to get much encouragement. "Ahoy, Speedwell, you'll have to give us a lift!" called Paul, making a megaphone out of his hands. "Y-y-yes, t-t-turn about's f-f-fair p-p-play," added Bluff, waving his bugle.
"At this they grew furious, and Dale tried to calm them and settle the question by asking the name of the street. "`W-W-Walton S-Street! cried one. "`P-P-P-Porchester T-T-Terrace! shouted the other. "`N-N-No! `Y-Y-Yes! `N-No! an' with that, one up fist an' hit the other a crack between the eyes. T'other returned on the nob, and then they closed.
"Now then," said Guffey, "that's your confession, is it?" "Y-y-yes," said Peter. "And you'll stand by it to the end?" "Y-y-yes, sir." "We can count on you now? No more nonsense?" "Y-y-yes, sir." "You swear it's all true?" "I do." "And you won't let anybody persuade you to go back on it no matter what they say to you?" "N-n-no, sir," said Peter.
"You have forgotten, haven't you?" he asked eagerly. "Y-y-yes," replied Jerry, "almost." "Almost!" exclaimed Whiteface, very much disappointed. "Then it has come back if you haven't forgotten it altogether. I wonder what it can be if the secret of laughter can't drive it away?" He looked up so questioningly that Jerry responded at once. "It's Celia Jane." It was the clown's turn to be surprised.
"Y-y-yes, like f-f-fun you have," scoffed Toby, who knew Steve "like a book," and had no faith in his professed change of heart. After a while things looked comfortable again.
"Confess, then, you rascal! What brought you here?" "Oh, my lord, mercy! mercy! I will confess! I will!" "Do it, then, you villain!" "Oh, my lord, I I come at at my lady's invitation, my lord!" "You came at Lady Vincent's invitation?" cried the viscount, shaking the speaker. "Y-y-yes, my lord!" stammered the valet.
"Oh, perhaps I am," he said swinging round, "y-y-yes, I'm pretty sure it's good enough. Seven thousand words, K, seven thousand p-p-precious words human nature won't stand it, will it? Let me have another look at it." But now Kate was adamant.
"O y-y-yes," answered the genial island exhorter, with obliging loquacity; "it was tw-w-enty-s-seven year ago that I see ole Eben-nezer Johnson come on the camp-ground of P-p-pungoteague with a mob of p-p-pirates to break up the f-f-fust Methodies camp-meetin' ever held about these sounds.
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