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Couldn't yu' see? Kep' hinderin' and spoilin' me with askin' those urgent questions of yourn why, I had to let yu' go your way! Why, that wasn't the ordinary play with the ordinary tenderfoot they treated you to! You ain't a common tenderfoot this trip. You're the foreman's friend. They've hit him through you. That's the way they count it. It's made them encouraged. Can't yu' see?"
Alden Gobble, and Minister, there aint a word of truth in it from beginnin to eend. If ever I come near hand to him agin, I'll larn him but never mind, I say nothin. Now there's one thing I don't cleverly understand. If this here book is my "Sayins and Doins," how comes it yourn or the Squire's either? If my thoughts and notions are my own, how can they be any other folks's?
But now after this day's work of yourn, I guess yer safe from me from this out." He shut his mouth with a snap, and strode up through the piles of sawdust toward the cottage on the hill. As for MacPherson, he was dumbfounded. Though no boaster, he knew he had done a magnificently heroic thing, and to get his mouth slapped for it was an exigency which he did not know what to do with.
Cyclona looked straight at him out of her big dark eyes framed by their heavy lashes. "I am a neighbor of yourn," she said. "I'm glad of that," responded Seth with ready Southern cordiality. "Wheah do you live?" Cyclona turned and pointed to the horizon. "About ten or twelve miles away," she explained. "There!" "Been theah long?" asked Seth.
I wish they were not. 'What do you mean by that? 'As prices are at present, a man doesn't make pinch by growing corn and keeping it to this time of the year. 'And where them chimneys is, is that yourn? This he said pointing along the straight line of the road to Farmer Holt's homestead, which showed itself on the other side of the Wash. 'It belongs to the estate, said Caldigate. 'By jingo!
They know I'd fall for a pair of eyes like yourn, if you was doing time on a rock-pile and I had to bring you in stripes." "I'm a sight!" "If you wasn't such a little pepper-box I'd blow you to a feather or two." "Ain't no pepper-box!" "You used to be, Doll. Two years back there wasn't a girl behind the counter ever gimme the cold storage like you did. I liked your nerve, too, durned if I didn't!"
Here's their valise, with her night-cap in it. Great was the laughter, multifarious the comments, and deep the interest of the crowd in all this dialogue, which they appeared to regard as a delightful entertainment, got up expressly for their amusement. 'Then you say this 'ere is yourn? said the policeman, relaxing his hold on the bridegroom, and confronting the Captain. 'Yes, it's mine.
"'Do you still hold to that offer? he axed. "'I'll make bond with my daddy-in-law on it, I said. "'Nuff said, an' Jud was gone. The next day he came back leading the black, slicker an' hence no-counter than ever, if possible. "'Look at him, he said proudly 'a dead match for yourn. Jes' han' me that two an' a half an' take him. You now have a team worth a thousan'.
But, tell me, are we safe?" "Dunno yet. Hope so." "Am I lying in Master Aleck's boat?" "Yes, on yer back," growled Tom. "Are yer comfy? I put in a nice noo bit o' pine board 'sevening for yer to lie on." "No; of course I'm not comf'table with you sitting on me." "Course you arn't. Think I am with that great brass buckle o' yourn sticking in the bottom o' my chest?"
"Gentlemen!" he began, but here he was interrupted by a loud voice upraised in hot anger. "Confound ye for a clumsy rascal! Will ye keep them elbers o' yourn to out o' my weskit, eh? Will ye keep them big feet o' yourn to yeself?
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