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The little man was smiling and suave again now, rubbing his hands softly together. "Ye're right, I never did. But your dog is not as ither dogs 'There's none like him none, I've heard ye say so yersel, mony a time. An' I'm wi' ye. There's none like him for devilment." His voice began to quiver and his face to blaze.
"Humph! ye're eternally at that bit o' humbug. It's bam, old man, all bam; bosh and gammon," said Orrick. "It'll never come to no good, I tell ye." "Who knows?" replied the old man meekly, but going on with his work not the less diligently because of these remarks.
Not that I give a hang whether ye're two or eighty-two so long as ye can write. Ye'll go first to Barbados. Steamer sails tomorrow at eight in the morning. Here's your berth. Here's a note to the cashier. Letter of instructions following. Wait at the Crown Hotel, Bridgetown, till you get it. Don't write if ye haven't anything to say. Get a story across by every mail-boat.
He waited, as was his custom, until five or six men were present, and then he began. ``Ye're all damned, I'm saying, damned from the day you were born. Your portion is Tophet. And on that day there happened what had never happened in his experience before. Men used to listen in a tolerant way, and say little over their beer, for that is the English custom; and that would be all.
"If ye're lookin' for th' hotel," he volunteered unexpectedly, "there aint none;" and effected a masterly retreat into the ticket-booth. Amused, the despised outlander picked up his luggage and followed amiably. "I'm not looking for the hotel that aint," he said, planting himself in front of the grating; "but I expected to be met by someone from Tanglewood "
"Well, sir, if I do it," said I tartly, "why shouldn't you?" "Eh, Cornel, there's an awfu' difference. In the first place, ye tramp about the haill countryside, and think naething of it; but a walk tires me mair than a hunard miles' drive; and then ye're a gentleman, and do your ain pleasure; and you're no so auld as me; and it's for your ain bairn, ye see, Cornel; and then "
Answer me?" insisted Peg. "Yes," replied Ethel vehemently. "And I AM." "No ye're not," said the indomitable Peg holding her firmly by the wrist. "Let me go!" whispered Ethel, struggling to release herself. "Ye're not goin' out o' this house to-night if I have to wake everyone in it." "Wake them!" cried Ethel. "Wake them. They couldn't stop me. Nothing can stop me now.
Green with a fresh leer, that contained this time something ironic. "I nothing doubt it! But by your leave, I'll pursue my quest without your assistance." Mr. Caryll continued, nevertheless, to advance towards him, Mistress Hortensia remaining in the background, a quiet spectator, betraying nothing of the anxieties by which she was being racked. "Ye're mighty curt this morning, Mr.
"Troth, and ye're nane sae ill aff," said he. "I thought that would maybe vary your opinions," said I. "Hout!" said he. "It shows me ye can bribe; but I'm no to be bribit." "We'll see about that yet a while," says I. "And first, I'll show you that I know what I am talking. You have orders to detain me here till after Thursday, 21st September." "Ye're no a'thegether wrong either," says Andie.
Hal, being tired, was content to stroll and enjoy the stillness; but Mary Burke sought information about the mysterious young man she was with. "Ye've not worked long in coal-mines, Mr. Smith?" she remarked. Hal was a trifle disconcerted. "How did you find that out?" "Ye don't look it ye don't talk it. Ye're not like anybody or anything around here.
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