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"I'll send you in a cab, my poor boy," returned the butler, "and git a cabman as I'm acquainted with to take care of you." "All right! go a'ead, ye cripples," returned the boy, as the cook approached him with a cup of warm soup. "Oh! ain't it prime!" he said, opening his eyes very wide indeed, and smacking his lips.
He dropped Shorty's foot, and with a backward sweep of his mighty right took the rebel in the stomach with such force as to double him up. The next instant Wat had his throat in his terrific grip, and tried to tear the windpipe from him. Then he flung the rebel forward down the hill, gathered up Shorty's feet again, and gave the command: "Hall right. Go a'ead, boys, quick has you can."
'And what do you want? asked Mrs. Peckover, turning sharply upon her daughter. 'I suppose I can come to see you, can't I? 'Come to see me! Likely! When did you come last? You're a ungrateful beast, that's what you are! 'All right. Go a'ead! Anything else you'd like to call me? Mrs. Peckover was hurt by the completeness with which Clem had established her independence.
Harding the member of Parliament, to his residence in?" "In Peers' Chambers, Westminister that's it, guv'nor! Comin' back, I 'ave to pass along the north side o' the Square, an' just a'ead o' me, I see old Tom Brian a-pullin' round the Johnny 'Orner, 'im comin' from Palace Mansions." "Mr. Exel only mentioned seeing ONE cab," muttered Dunbar, glancing keenly aside at Sowerby.
You'd have to mortgage everything to pye the fines. Any'ow you'd go into bankruptcy after you'd bailed me out." Carrick paused to view the route before them. "That's a pretty steep 'ill a'ead, sir. Mybe we'd better stop at the top and reconnoitre a bit. We ought to get a good view from there. It looks too bloomin' rocky for this rate any'ow."
An' I 'adn't much time to waste neither, for I knew there was Kafirs all about, an' the troops was gettin' a'ead of me, an' my 'oss was tied to a yellow-wood tree at the foot o' the kloof, an' I began to feel sort o' skeery with the gloomy thickets all around, an' rugged precipices lookin' as if they'd tumble on me, an' the great mountains goin' up to 'eaven oh! I can tell you it was it was "
"Once when a crowd of us went to visit 'im, 'e ran up this tr'il a'ead of us, and when we arrived all winded, blow me up a bloomin' gum-tree if 'e 'ad n't a mess of feis and breadfruit cooked for us." We came to a sign on the trail. "Tapu," it said, which means taboo, or keep away; and farther on a notice in French that the owner forbade any one to enter upon his land.
He could lick the biggest boy in the school, and when he made up his mind to do a thing, nothin' on earth could stop him a-doin' of it." "Good," said the skipper, with an emphatic puff; "that's what we Americans call the power to go ahead. Did Sandy become a great man?" "Don't know," answered Lancey. "He went a'ead too fast for me to foller.
'Eave a'ead. Shall I 'elp you?" said the shabby man. Thus admonished, Miles, scarce knowing what he said, repeated the sergeant's words "Portsmouth third two single." "Vy, you ain't agoin' to pay for me, are you?" exclaimed the shabby man in smiling surprise. "Oh! beg pardon. I mean one," said Miles to the clerk, quickly.
It was his exordium; it demanded the attention of the company; and though he had it not, he continued: "I'm an Arkansas man, I am. I'm a big su-gar planter, I am. All right! Go a'ead! I own fifty niggers, I do. Yee-p!" He lifted both feet and slammed them on the floor energetically, pausing for a reply. He had addressed all men; no one responded, and he went on:
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