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"Would you believe it, Sir, he didn't like that word 'my man, partikelarly coming from a soldier, for they are so hignorant here they affect to look down upon soldiers, and call 'em 'thirteen pences. "'Mean, said he, 'it means that, a-pointin' to the carcass. 'Do you want to buy it? "'Hem! said Mac. 'Well now, my good fellow
They're all made o' them noble animals," says he, a-pointin' to a wery nice little tabby kitten, "and I seasons 'em for beefsteak, weal or kidney, 'cording to the demand. And more than that," says he, "I can make a weal a beef-steak, or a beef-steak a kidney, or any one on 'em a mutton, at a minute's notice, just as the market changes, and appetites wary!"
One was wearin' one o' them coal-scuttle helmets, t'other a little flat cap with a shiny peak. And the Captain here was a-pointin' at our lines and a-wavin' his hand about like he was a-tellin' the two Fritzes all about it, and the chap in the coal-scuttle hat was a-writin' it all down in a book." Barling paused. He was rather flushed and his eyes burned brightly in his weather-beaten face.
But we was close enough tew see 'em plain; an', afore God! " The man stopped abruptly and, whirling suddenly about, pointed a finger dramatically directly into the face of Thure "it was that young villain a-standin' thar what had his gun a-pointin' straight at me!"
"He couldn't 'a' got off o' the headin'!" He stooped and examined the floor of the passage carefully, holding his lamp very low. "Billy," he said, "I believe he's come in an' gone out again. Here's tracks a-pointin' the other way." "So he has, Mike, so he has; the puir lad!"
How dared she come back to my office?... Now she'll go with Curtis." "Shouldn't be s'prised," said Scattergood, waggling his head. "I heard Farley a-pointin' out to her the dee-sirability of Paris and Rome and sich European p'ints last night.... You calculate Sairy took the paper?" "What else can I think?"
Get her away from HERE, that's all." "Not so long as she wishes to stay." "You won't?" Strong saw that he must try a new attack. He came close to Douglas and spoke with a marked insinuation. "If you was a friend to the girl, you wouldn't want the whole congregation a-pointin' fingers at her." "What do you mean?"
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