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"That I can," said Luke, "Why, her babe is a-dying, And she was so wrapped up in it!" Catherine started up: "What is his trouble?" "Nay, I know not. But it has been peaking and pining worse and worse this while." A furtive glance of satisfaction passed between Cornelis and Sybrandt. Luckily for them Catherine did not see it. Her face was turned towards her husband.
'I'll be even with you, old fellow, for that, said Charley to himself; and it may be taken for granted that he kept his word before long. 'Oh! it is no good hushing any more, said Mrs. Davis, hardly waiting till Mr. Snape's erect ears were out of hearing. 'Hushing won't do no good; there's that girl a-dying, and her grave'll be a-top of your head, Mr.
Thompson nodded "All ready," and then we threw ourselves forward with all our might; but Thompson slipped, and slumped down with his nose on the cheese, and his breath got loose. He gagged and gasped, and floundered up and made a break for the door, pawing the air and saying hoarsely, "Don't hender me! gimme the road! I'm a-dying; gimme the road!"
Cecile," suddenly bending forward, and grasping the child's arm almost cruelly, "I can't die at all till you promise me this solemn and grave, as though it were yer very last breath." "I will promise, stepmother," said Cecile. "I'll promise solemn, and I'll keep it solemn; don't you be fretted, now as you're a-dying. I don't mind ef it is hard.
I've seen you tried alongside of your brother, when he was a-dying, and, Margaret, I like you now better than ever I did." "Mr Rubb, at present, all that cannot mean anything." "But doesn't it mean anything? By Jove! it does though. It means just this, that I'll make you Mrs Rubb to-morrow, or as soon as Doctors' Commons, and all that, will let us do it; and I'll chance the money afterwards.
"Are you going to sit there aboard ship with plenty of food and drink and see your shipmates a-dying of starvation and thirst?" The men rested on their oars while he called to us; but when we did not answer, he motioned with his hand and they again rowed toward us with short, feeble strokes.
"I bees a-dying Mas-ter Bob. I knows I be! I hears the h'angels a-flapping on their wings! I knows they be a-coming for me! God bless 'ee, Mas-ter Bob! Ah, if 'ee ever get 'shore 'gain tell Cap' I didn't mean no 'arm!" Soon after faltering out these broken words, Dick fell back insensible in the bottom of the boat.
He dined with us, and then to the office, when we had a sorry meeting to little purpose, and then broke up, and I to my office, and busy late to good purpose, and so home to supper and to bed. This day a poor seaman, almost starved for want of food, lay in our yard a-dying. I sent him half-a-crown, and we ordered his ticket to be paid. 13th.
In the decay of that long southern autumn a more sombre opulence was added to the gay colours; a different spirit filled the air, so that I realised suddenly that old romantic Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella. It lay a-dying still, gorgeous in corruption, sober yet flamboyant, rich and poverty-stricken, squalid, magnificent.
'Thou dost not love thy child, mother! Thou dost not care if her heart is broken! Ah, God! and these words of my heart-beloved Ursula ring in my ears as if the sound of them would fill them when I lie a-dying. And her poor tear-stained face comes between me and everything else. Child! hearts do not break; life is very tough as well as very terrible. But I will not decide for thee.
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