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Geoffrey, go on. Only I guess I'll light the gas jest the same, if you don't mind!" Which Mrs. Trapes did forthwith. "But what was you a-doin' of all alone in the dark?" "Glorying in life, Mrs. Trapes, and praising the good God for health and strength to enjoy it and the fulness thereof " "'Fulness thereof' meanin' jest what, Mr. Geoffrey?" "The most beautiful thing in a beautiful world, Mrs.
It's most like a Sunday-school picnic, ain't it?" exclaimed the village seamstress, who at seventy years still had the same innocent enjoyment in such affairs as she had had at seven. "But, hush! Somethin's a-doin'!" Something was certainly "a-doing!" There was a great bustle and stir at the double doors and in came Deacon Meakin, William, Mr.
Gib, I'm free to tell you that piracy, barratry, murder an' homicide pales into insignificance compared with what you went an' done, for you broke an innercent an' trustin' heart an' hell's too good for a man that'll pull a trick like that." "Scraggsy, Scraggsy, Scraggsy," Mr. Gibney protested. "Them's awful hard words." "I can't help it. You told me to speak out an' I'm a-doin' it.
An' I come up behind her an' plumped out at her to know what she was a-doin'. An' she says: "I'm makin' a call," just like that; "I'm makin' a call," s'she, smilin', an' not another word to be got out of her. 'An', says Mis' Sykes, 'let me tell you, I scud down that hill, one goose pimple. "'Let her alone, says I, philosophic. 'Leave her be.
Florence Nightingale stood in the foreground good, pityin' female angel that she wuz and all round her lay sick and dyin' soldiers, and she a-doin' all she could to help 'em. This picture, showin' woman as a Healer and Consoler, is in the centre, as it ort to be.
"Come, you won't refuse now!" she finished, resolutely turning toward the street. And because old Pete could not pick her up bodily and carry her home, he followed close at her heels. At the head of the marble stairs "all lights and mirrors," however, he made one last plea. "Miss Billy, once more I beg of ye, won't ye come home? Ye don't know what yer a-doin', Miss Billy, ye don't ye don't!"
Henry'll holp you Sat'days to cl'ar off breshwood an' cut down trees, so's to let in the sun to dry yer ground in time fer yer spring plowin'. I'll spar' you Rube an' Tom this wintah sometimes, when thar ain't much a-doin' at home, an' you kin hev the ox team, too, to haul off the bresh.
"'Well, said the Captain, 'go on." "Well, sir, all on a suddent like, it come over us: what good is that there plunder a-doin' of? "'What good? asked Black Pedro. "'Yessir, what good? There's all that there gold an' silver, an' all them jooels an' preshis stones an' all them fine clo'es an' what not, an' what good is it all a-doin' of, a-buried in the ground?
'How did his master like it? 'Oh! Brummy? He looked as black as the ace of spades. He'd have made it hot for that dorg if he could ha' got at him. But I suppose he forgived him when he came out. 'Why should he? 'Because the jury fetched him in guilty without leaving the box, and the judge give him seven years. You wouldn't find this old varmint a-doin' no such foolishness as that.
'No, no oh, not there, replied Job, with a quickness very unusual to him, 'not there. 'What was you a-doin' there? asked Sam, with a sharp glance. 'Got inside the gate by accident, perhaps? 'Why, Mr. Weller, replied Job, 'I don't mind telling you my little secrets, because, you know, we took such a fancy for each other when we first met. You recollect how pleasant we were that morning?
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