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"Hah!" he ejaculated, letting himself down in a lumbering way from the wheel, and then rubbing his right hand up and down his trouser-leg to get it clean; "hah! now we'll have it out!" He came right up to me, spreading out his open hand. "Here, young un!" he cried; "the master says I did that thar a-purpose to hurt you, out of jealous feeling like. What do you say?"
"We've powerful good water," his host had said in the afternoon, "'n' it's nigh the house, too. I built the house yer a-purpose, on 'count of its be-in' nigh." He was unconsciously dwelling upon this statement as he walked, and trying to recall correctly the mountain drawl and twang.
'I had my pick o' you two, he explained to Learoyd, 'and you got my palanquin not before I'd made my profit on it. Why'd I do harm when everything's settled? Your man DID come here drunk as Davy's sow on a frosty night came a-purpose to mock me stuck his head out of the door an' called me a crucified hodman. I made him drunker, an' sent him along. But I never touched him.
When she's with 'im you'd think as butter wouldn't melt in 'er mouth; but the way she talked to me just now you'd think I was paid a-purpose to wait on her. I asked 'er at last wot she thought I was here for, and she said she didn't know, and nobody else neither.
Both men turned and looked at him curiously, the first natural exclamations stilled on their lips by the sight of his straight, earnest little figure facing them. "Why not, Bobby?" asked Mr. Orde at last. "I was the one who fired that shot that hit Mr. Laughton's head. I did it a-purpose." "What for?" "I saw something brown in the brush, and I was sure it was a partridge, so I shot at it.
"Well, they didn't go there a-purpose." "I bet they didn't! Why, great goodness, there ain't no chance for 'em if they don't git off mighty quick! Why, how in the nation did they ever git into such a scrape?" "Easy enough. Miss Hooker was a-visiting up there to the town " "Yes, Booth's Landing go on."
Flint made her a-purpose for me, same's God made me for you, ma, an' she's mine by bornation. I can live with Loujaney. I ain't a mite ashamed afore her when we ain't got nothin', but I turn 'tother's face to the wall so she won't know. Loujaney's pore folks same's you an' me, an' she knows prezac'ly how 't is. That's why I love her so much.
"Molly, my dear, it's of no use concealin' things from you, 'cause when bad luck falls we must just face it. This Injun Wapaw, he calls himself tells me he has com'd here a-purpose, as fast as he could, to say that his tribe have resolved to attack me, burn the Fort, kill all the men, and carry you off into slavery." "God help me! can this be true?"
I've got a pretty good stock of monkey-French, and I let it go. They laughed till they cried at some of my mistakes, but they weren't no mistakes, not on your life. It was all done a-purpose. They said I was the only man from Lebanon they wouldn't have cut up and boiled, and they was going to have the blood of the Lebanon lot before they'd done. I pretended to get mad, and I talked wild.
"Where away, Tod?" the approaching surfman cried when he joined the two. "Captain wants me to look after the yawl," answered Tod. "It's all right," cried Green; "I just left it. Went down a-purpose. Who's yer friend?" "A man the cap'n sent along to lend a hand. This is Sam Green," and he turned to the Swede and nodded to his brother surfman. The two shook hands.
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