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I could see 'em a-talking and a-arguing like mad, and I was just wild myself to know what it was all about, sir, but of course I couldn't get a-nigh of 'em. Finally," said Hinge, "after two or three hours, they drives back to the Star and Garter, and goes in there.
But she air so gin ter humoring every critter a-nigh her, an' tends ter 'em so much, an' feeds 'em so high an' hearty, ez they jes' gits good fur nothin' in this world. That's how kem she air eat out'n house an' home now. Old Bob say ez how he air the hongriest critter! Say he jes' despise ter see him comin' round of meal times.
Then 'e smacks me on the back, 'All right, old woman, says 'e, 'we won't swear nothin', but it'll be a bad day for him when 'e comes a-nigh the William and Mary. So no more was said.
How gross and earthly, how fatally commonplace and prosaic seemed everyone about her. The violently high spirits of the other girls, their scramblings for flowers and shriekings at snakes, their too obvious blushes and iron-clad flirtations, seemed not to come a-nigh her. "Her soul was like a star and dwelt apart."
Nick's face turned red as he answered, "That thar tur-r-key ain't a-nigh thar." "What ails ye, Nick? thar's su'thin' wrong. I kin tell it by yer looks. Ye never hed the grit ter sarch thar, I'll be bound; did ye, now?" Nick could not bring himself to admit having been near the place. "No," he faltered, "I never sarched thar." "Ye'll do it now, though!" his mother declared triumphantly.
"It's a little better'n two o'clock, sir; you've had a tidy sleep. The tide's pretty near down, and the moon's a-nigh off the water. By than you get alongside there'll likely be a bit o' mist on the water crep up from the eastud with the sun." The boy slipped off his clothes, shivering. "Where's Mr. Joy?" "He came in from the Wish just on midnight. 'No Knapp yet? says he.
"You will have the goodness to answer me, Mrs. Roy." "It were just a dream sir," she said, the words issuing in unequal jerks from her trembling lips, "I have been pretty nigh crazed lately. What with them Mormons, and the uncertainty of fixing what to do whether to believe 'em or not and Roy's crabbed temper, which grows upon him, and other fears and troubles, I've been a-nigh crazed.
"Eh, Miss, I'd do it in a minute, it is but a step, but Dr. Kenn's wife lies dead; she's to be buried to-morrow; died the day I come from Mudport. It's all the more pity she should ha' died just now, if you want him. I hardly like to go a-nigh him yet." "Oh no, Bob," said Maggie, "we must let it be, till after a few days, perhaps, when you hear that he is going about again.
The King made great joy thereof and all they of the court, and the King made broad his lands right freely for that he believed Kay had spoken true. I went," saith the hermit, "on the morrow to the piece of land where the Giant lay dead, as a damsel came within here to tell me with right great joy. I found the corpse of the Giant so big that I durst not come a-nigh it.
As for the lithographers, sign-painters, and beginners, they were spending their evenings somewhere else than in the old room under the shaded gas-jets. Even Margaret, so Mother Mulligan told him, was up "wid her folks, somewheres." "And she was that broken-hearted," she added, "whin they shut up the school bad cess to 'em! Oh, ye would a-nigh kilt yerself wid grief to a-seen her, poor darlint."
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