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"Confound him! if he'd a said he'd only leave a little drop, it would a been more like the thing; for he e'en a'most emptied the whole into the cup, and drank it off clean, without winkin'. "'It's a "very refreshin' time," sais I, 'ain't' it? But he didn't make no answer.
"An' then he would sheath his knife, an' roll himself up in his blanket, an' cry himself to sleep like a child. "I had been with ole Bill a'most ten years ever since I was a boy but he had never told me the cause of his trouble.
I will meet you at the outlook at six o'clock. I have business on hand of importance." With these words Carroway hastened home, leaving Cadman to mutter his wrath, and then to growl it, when his officer was out of ear-shot. "Never a day, nor an hour a'most, without he insulteth of me. A woman, indeed! Well, his wife may be a man, but what call hath he to speak of mine so?
I've seed poor owld women git the bastinado that's what they calls it for nothin' at all a'most. Ah, they're awful hard on the women. They kape 'em locked up, they does, as if they was thieves or murderers, and niver lets 'em out at least the ladies among 'em for fear o' their bein' runned away wid.
Drunkards frae the breast! harlots frae the cradle! damned before they're born! John Calvin had an inkling o' the truth there, I'm a'most driven to think, wi' his reprobation deevil's doctrines!" "Well but Mr. Mackaye, I know nothing about these poor creatures." "Then ye ought. What do ye ken anent the Pacific?
I fixed my eyes on the place where I thought the purse was, and every time I felt anything under my foot I reached down and picked it up and then chucked it away as far as I could so as not to pick it up agin. Dirty job it was, too, and in five minutes I was mud up to the neck, a'most. And I 'ad just got to wot I thought was the right place, and feeling about very careful, when the bell rang agin.
The sea-weed was up'ard of six feet high, tufted on the top with a sort o' thing you might a'most fancy was flowers. The colours, too, was bright. Among the branches o' this submarine forest, or grove, small lobsters, an' shrimps, an' other sorts o' shell-fish, were doin' dooty as birds hoppin' from one branch to another, an' creepin' about in all directions.
Everfield in the next street, says I, and, of course, Everfield and Eversleigh being a'most the same names, was calculated to lead to inconvenient mistakes. In the character of the bootmaker, Sir Reginald Eversleigh tells me to get out of his room, and be something uncommonly unpleasant, and unfit for the ears of ladies.
And every day they got more and more worried about wot was the best thing to do with the locket, and whether it would be safe to try and sell it. The idea o' walking about with a fortune in their pockets that they couldn't spend a'most drove 'em crazy. "The longer we keep it, the safer it'll be," ses Sam, as they was walking down Hounds-ditch one day.
'I'll claw his face for'n, let me only catch him! Well, she hunted about everywhere, ballyragging Jack by side and by seam, Jack lying a'most stifled inside the churn, and the poor maid or young woman rather standing at the door crying her eyes out. I shall never forget it, never! 'Twould have melted a marble stone! But she couldn't find him nowhere at all."
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