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No, no, my dear; I can get all the temperance talk I want without committin' bigamy for it. 'An' you couldn' marry me, says the merrymaid, with a kind o' sob, 'because I'm married already, an' the mother of two as pretty children as ever you wished to see.
Thames runs swiftly when it has a corpse for cargo. Oho! "At his red, red lips the merrymaid sips For the kiss that his sweetheart stole, my lads Sing ho! for the bell shall toll! "I'm afraid no bell will toll for you, Mr. Trenoweth; not yet awhile at any rate. Not till your sweetheart is weary of waiting "And the devil has got his due, my lads Sing ho! but he waits for you!
"Sing hey! for the dead man's lips, my lads; Sing ho! for the dead man's soul. At his red, red lips the merrymaid sips For the kiss that his sweetheart stole, my lads Sing ho! for the bell shall toll!" I glanced again at my companion.
"I don't want to marry no woman with a tail like a fish, nor no woman that makes thikky noise with her breathin'," maintained Jan. "That's to say, if merrymaid it were, which I doubts. But you're wrong about my father, Miss Vazzy. He see'd a merrymaid sure 'nough; but he never took her home. No, he was too much of a gentleman, besides bein' afeard o' my mother.
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