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"Good Heavens, Mr. Slick, how can you talk such nonsense, and yet have the modesty to say you have no prejudice?" "Yes, the Spy System," said he, "and I'll prove it. You know Dr. Mc'Dougall to Nova Scotia; well, he knows all about mineralogy, and geology, and astrology, and every thing a'most, except what he ought to know, and that is dollar-ology.
"Water!" gasped William, his eyes lighting up with gleam of hope. "A rain-cloud you think, Ben?" "I'm a'most sure o't, Will'm. I never seed a bank o' clouds like them there wasn't some wet in; and if the wind 'll only drift 'em this way, we may get a shower 'll be the savin' o' our lives. O Lord! in thy mercy look down on us, and send 'em over us!" The boy echoed the prayer.
Not more nor any other day." "Had she seen her at all?" "O, yes! she'd seen her at all. In course, you know, she couldn't be off of seeing her at all!" "When did she see her?" "When? O! last week, every day a'most. And the week afore that too! She wasn't a-goin' to tell a lie!" "Then she hadn't seen her this morning?" "Yes, she'd seen her this morning.
While Dolly was repeating this assurance, the following words were being exchanged upon the smoky parapet: "If you please, sir, I can see two women on the beach, half-way between the posts a'most." "Can't help it wouldn't stop for all the petticoats in the kingdom. If they choose to go there, they must take their chance. A bit more up, and to you, my good man. Are you sure you put in twenty-three?
'Wah! answered Joseph, 'yon dainty chap says he cannut ate 'em. But I guess it's raight! His mother wer just soa we wer a'most too mucky to sow t' corn for makking her breead. 'Don't mention his mother to me, said the master, angrily. 'Get him something that he can eat, that's all. What is his usual food, Nelly?
"And puts my things in the paper, when he gets the editor's back turned, for the editor is a consaited chap that likes no one's po'thry but his own; but never mind if I ever get a writ against that chap, won't I sarve it!" "And I dar say some day you will have it agen him, sir," said Larry. "Sure of it, a'most," said Goggins; "them litherary men is always in defficulties."
In response to his invitation it opened slowly, and a small middle-aged man of doleful aspect entered softly and closed it behind him. "Evening, Bob," he said, in stricken accents. "I thought I'd just step round to see how you was bearing up. Fancy pore old Phipps! Why, I'd a'most as soon it had been me. A'most." Mr. Clarkson nodded. "Here to-day and gone to-morrow," continued Mr.
That the size of his scare had been big enough to make him do a'most anything showed up from the way he kept on being scared after it was all over he coming into Palomitas looking like a wet white rag when, by his own showing, he'd been out of reach of anybody's hurting him for four or five hours anyway, and had had a chance to cool off at Pojuaque while he was loading in old man Bouquet's wine.
A yoke of oxen, fat, sleek, Old Homestead animals, lay in the grass a little distance from the barn. "Fine yoke of cattle," said the constable, sauntering toward them, "fat enough to kill a'most, ain't they?" "I fed them myself," answered uncle Nathan, patting a white star on the forehead of the nearest animal, as he lay upon his knees half buried in the rich aftergrowth. "Isn't he an old beauty?"
They looked grave upon it awhile, then Daniel took heart and said, 'A think we'd done a'most enough last neet; but men's not to be stopped wi' a straw when their blood is up; still it's hard lines to call out t' sojers, even if they be but militia. So what we seven hatched in a dark entry has ta'en a lord to put a stop to 't! continued he, chuckling a little, but more faintly this time.
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