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Question and answer passed swiftly and quietly back and forth between Dixon, Jameson, Hill and Tharon. In a few pregnant moments she knew what had happened in Corvan they knew the secret of False Ridge and the Cup o' God. "An' now these strangers from below they ben a-actin' awful queer, ain't a-feared o' nothin' an' they ben goin' all over like a couple o' hounds.
"Water won't touch him, I sees that," observed Smallbones. "No. Mein Gott, das was to trow time and de trouble away," replied the corporal. "Hanging's just as natural a death for a cur," observed Spurey. "Yes," observed Short. "I'm a-feared that the rope's not laid that's to hang that animal," observed Coble, shaking his head.
I was a-feared I would be nabbed as a prisoner, and sent to eat Uncle Sam's hard-tack in the hulks at Sackett's Harbour, when, all of a sudden, the ground trembled like the earthquakes I have felt in the West Indies; then a volcano of fire burst up to the sky, and, in a minute, the air seemed raining fire and brimstone, as it did at Sodom and Gomorrah. It seemed like the judgment-day.
A little mocking smile came and sat upon her lips. "What you run for?" she asked, with dancing mischief in her eyes. "Because " he hesitated, and his cheeks grew hot. "I knows," she said, with impish glee, laughing low music. "Why?" he challenged, sturdily. "You was a-feared." He bridled. "Well, I reckon you'd be a-feared if you was caught out in the black dark all alone."
"Pooh!" she scoffed and hugged her knees. "Pooh! I've stayed out all alone heaps o' nights." He looked at her with a curious awe. "I don't believe you," he asserted; but she tossed her head and her eyes grew scornful. "Who's a-feared of the dark? I love night." Her eyes grew soft. He watched her silently, till, waking from her daydream, she abruptly asked: "Where you from?" "Georgia."
All four-footed beasts have liking to behold the divers colours of the panther and tiger, but they are a-feared of the horribleness of their heads, and therefore they hide their heads, and toll the beasts to them with fairness of that other-deal of the body, and take them when they come so tolled, and eat them.
So when he had quenched his thirst, he took up the cask and put it back on the table, and thanked the man for the good meal, and told his mother to come and thank him too, and a-feared though she was, she dared do nothing else but thank the man. Then the lad sat down again alongside the man and began to gossip, and after they had sat a while, the man said, 'Well!
"Wall, I'd like a pair of good stout breeches," peacefully interposed Pinetop. "I've been backin' up agin the fence when I seed a lady comin' for the last three weeks, an' whenever I set down, I'm plum feared to git up agin. What with all the other things, the Yankees, and the chills, and the measles, it's downright hard on a man to have to be a-feared of his own breeches."
"It'll not be a cold night, and we'll have to be off early in the morning;" and then she turned away and sat down to eat her own supper at a little distance. "Tim," whispered Duke; but the boy caught the faint sound and edged himself nearer. "Tim," said Duke again, "is he not going to take us home to-night?" "I'se a-feared not," replied Tim in the same tone. A low deep sigh escaped poor Duke.
On the evening of the second day we came to the verge of the wooded heights, and saw before us the wide plain of Orizaba, which lay between us and Acapulco, and must needs be crossed if we meant to reach the Pacific coast. "It is here that I see most reason to be a-feared," said Pharaoh, as we halted and looked out across the plain.
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