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Tutt loitered into the corridor, stepped unostentatiously behind a pillar, slipped into the adjoining court room which happened to be empty and thence back into the passage upon which the jury rooms opened. He found Cap Phelan standing before one of these with a finger to his lips. "Pst! They're at it a-ready!" whispered Phelan as Mr. Tutt slipped him a stogy.
You can imagine our disgust when we interviewed the Captain. "Not on your life!" he said decidedly. "Why, boys, I got two a 'em a-ready, one in Noo Bedford she's my lawful, and one a sort of 'erdeependence, in Sausalito. But boys, I don't go for to commit trigonometry, no sir!" Thunder rested on our brows but the Captain continued,
He took no notice of Mrs. Vincent, but she did not miss one shadow or shade of the absolute understanding existing between Jess and his "babies," as he called them. "Dar now, honeys," he said, as he carefully blanketed them. "Run 'long back yander to yo' boxes. Yo' dinner's all a-ready an' a-waitin', lak de hymn chune say, an' yo's ready fo' it.
All that we can do now is to get the boats and provisions, and as much of the cargo as we can, safe on the ice. And sharp's the word, for when the floes ease off, the poor little yacht will certainly go to the bottom." "No, massa," said the negro steward, stepping on deck at that moment, "we can't go to de bottom, cause we's dare a-ready!" "What d'ye mean, Butterface?"
"What air you gittin' up for a-ready, boy? You goin' to the circus before breakfast? Don't you make no noise, else you'll have 'em all down here before I git my fire a-goin'." "All right, Mahailey." Claude caught up his cap and ran out of doors, down the hillside toward the barn.
And one shouted above the rest: "He's put up a plea of insanity a-ready. Hang her, now!" Edward Conway flashed hot through his paleness and he placed himself before the bowed and moaning form while the crowd in front of him surged and shouted and called for a rope.
Lord, whoever named you knew his or her business all right, all right! Here come Bolivar and his daughter to bear a hand. Now don't set out to screech and carry on, 'cause if you do you'll make more trouble and it looks like you'd made a-plenty a-ready. And you shut up!" cried Shelby, now thoroughly roused, as Paul Ring, his disguise removed and stowed in his suitcase blustered from the cab.
Nina looked down uneasily. "She know you an' me lige one anudder, an' she is afrait you marry me, an' den ven she tie you get the farm a-ready." Claude whisfied. "Great Jehosaphat! She really thinks that, does she? Well, dog my cats! What put that idea into her head?" "I told her," said Nina calmly. "You told her?" Claude turned and stared at her.
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