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He was still wearing his hip-boots and sou'wester he was just in from the surf and stood outside the low doorway with a lantern. Its light streamed over the sand and made wavering patterns about the mare's feet. "Thought ye'd never come, Doc," he whispered, as he threw the blanket over the mare. "Wife's nigh crazy. Tod's fightin' for all he's worth, but there ain't much breath left in him.
There was something of magic and romance in the news that a machine could turn out as much work as twenty-five men, but when my brothers moved away to other parts of the world to find work, the romance was rubbed off. "Maybe we can get a machine?" Jamie said. "Aye, but shure ye'd have to get a factory to put it in!" "Is that so?" "Aye, an' we find it hard enough t' pay fur what we're in now!"
'If it's uneasy ye are, says I, 'for any neglect of your friends, for I thought he might be in purgatory longer than he thought convenient, 'tell me what you wish, and go home peaceably out of the rain, for this weather can do no good to living or dead; go home, said I, 'and, if it's masses ye'd like, I'll give you a day's pay myself, rather than you should fret yourself this way. The words were not well out of my mouth, when he came so near me that the sigh he gave went right through both my ears; 'the Lord be merciful to me, said I, trembling.
"I tell ye I hain't got no quar'll with ye, Uncle Ben," continued Seth, retreating with a malignant sneer; "and when you talk of protectin' other folks' property, mebbe ye'd better protect YOUR OWN or what ye'd like to call so instead of quar'llin' with the man that's helpin' ye.
From now on I'll do everythin' they tell me an' learn everythin' they teach me, if it kills me!" "I wish you would," he said seriously. "An' when I pass everybody else, an' know more than anyone EVER knew will ye be very proud of me?" "Yes, Peg. Even more than I am now." "Are ye NOW?" "I am. Proud to think you are my friend." "Ye'd ha' won yer wager. We ARE friends, aren't we?" "I am YOURS."
She don't know much yet, but what she don't know Hastings tells, her." "Who's Hastings?" "Why, her bailiff, to be sure. You do be a stranger, not knowin' Muster Hastings?" "I'm just here for a few weeks. It's a rum business, isn't it, this of women taking farms?" Halsey nodded reflectively. "Aye, it's a queer business. But they do be cleverer at it than ye'd think.
"David," says he, "this is no way for two friends to take a small accident. I have to say that I'm sorry; and so that's said. And now if you have anything, ye'd better say it." "O," says I, "I have nothing." He seemed disconcerted; at which I was meanly pleased. "No," said he, with rather a trembling voice, "but when I say I was to blame?"
Then with firmly gripped staff he marched stoutly into the tide till it ran hissing below his armpits. "I could dae't alone," he cried, "but no wi' a burden. For, losh, if ye slippit, ye'd be in the Manor Pool afore ye could draw breath." And so we waited with the great white droves and five angry men beyond, and the path blocked by a surging flood.
"Yes; said it was a fine day. You'd have taken more notice if you'd known that he was doomed to die in the hour, and that those were the last words he would say to any man in this world." "To be sure," said a full voice from the rear. "If ye'd known that, ye'd have prolonged the conversation."
'Ye'd best lave your rifles, said O'Brien. ''Tis a creeping, crawling job before ye, and the lighter ye go, the better. At close quarters the pistols will do the job better than anything else ye can carry. Now get along wid ye. The sky's lightening over Asia yonder, and 'tis small chance ye'll have if the dawn catches ye.
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