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And the next minute father makes two long steps to the door, and his arms is round her, and she a-hanging on his neck, and they two holding each other as if they would never let go. And so she come home, and I shut the door.
He did not meet Beatrice, but he met old Edward, who knew him at once. "Lord, sir," he said, "it's queer to see you here again, specially when I thinks as how I saw you first, and you a dead 'un to all purposes, with your mouth open, and Miss Beatrice a-hanging on to your hair fit to pull your scalp off. You never was nearer old Davy than you was that night, sir, nor won't be.
"Fortun'," repeated the father, "fortun' it's fetched me one in the ribs low, Barnabas, low! it's took my wind an' I'm a-hanging on to the ropes, lad. Why, Lord love me! "And lucky speculation, father !" "Now, Barnabas," exclaimed his father, beginning to rasp his fingers to and fro across his great, square, shaven chin, "why argufy? Your uncle Tom was a planter very well!
One woman says Elmira orter have a cup o' tea, which she'll lay off her bunnet and go to the kitchen and make it fur her. But Elmira says no, she can't a-bear to think of tea, with poor Hennerey a-hanging out there in the shop. But she was kind o' enjoying all that fuss being made over her, too. And all the other women says: "Poor thing!"
Seems to me that we've been to one o' they casks, and all the time it don't. No; we arn't had no drink. We shouldn't with all that there trouble a-hanging over us." "Yes, Bob," I said eagerly, for he had touched a chord which set me thinking I mean trying to think; "that trouble hanging over us. There was some trouble, wasn't there?"
Baggett is at Portsmouth, a-hanging on about the old shop. And he'll be drunk as long as there's gin to be had with or without paying. They do tell me as his nose is got to be awful. There's a man for a poor woman to go and spend her savings on! He's had a'most all on 'em already. Twenty-two pound four and sixpence he had out o' me the last time he was in the country.
The others watched her, knowing that when her pewter was empty she would turn them out of the kitchen. In a few moments she said, 'I think, Kate, that if you're in a hurry you'd better get on with your dress. I have to see to Mr. Lennox's dinner, and I can't have you a-hanging about. As it is, I don't know how I'm to get the work done.
I war a-hanging thar, and squeaking and cussing, and talking soft nonsense to the pony, to keep him out of his tantrums, when what should I see but a great crittur come tramping through the forest, right off yander by the fallen oak, with a big b'ar before him " "Pish!" said the soldier, "what has this to do with danger?"
But still Falk's voice came back to us shrilly, "I'll see you yet a-hanging by your necks," until at last we could only hear him cursing. Now some one called, "Ben! Ben Lathrop! Where are you?" "Here I am," I cried as loudly as I could. "Well, Ben, what's this? Are you wounded?" It was Roger, and when he saw with whom I was talking he smiled.
To save my soul I couldn't help laughing when I zid en, though all the time I was as hot as dog-days, what with the marrying, and what with the woman a-hanging to me, and what with Jack Changley and a lot more chaps grinning at me through church window.
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