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"Wa-all, I was a-tellin' about this queer company of ourn. Came unexpected, same as you did; 'peared all of a sudden out of the woods. It's a leetle girl, sirs; says she's twelve year old, but small of her age nothin' but a child, though I reckon life's used her hard, pore creetur! Yer should a-seen her when she 'rived.
For, in course, if you come away at eight o'clock you couldn't a-seen her." "Seen whom?" questioned Nora. "Why, laws, his wife, child, as never arrove till one o'clock." Nora burst out laughing; and in the midst of her mirthfulness exclaimed: "There, now, Mrs. Jones, I thought you didn't know half the rights of the story you promised to tell us, and now I'm sure of it! Seems like you've heard Mr.
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."
'Twas the charm you spoke about: an' that same midnight I delved a hole by the dreshold an' buried the coat, whisperin', 'Man, come back, come back to me! as Aun' Lesnewth had a-taught me, times afore. "But she, the pale woman, had a-seen me, dro' a chink o' the parlour-door, as I tuk the coat down. An' she knowed what I tuk it for.
"Bargee for the nonce I am, yet gentleman enough to understand a delicate situation. Your secret is safe with me, and so you may tell your your friend." "Then you must a-seen them?" she demanded. "Them?" echoed Mr. Mortimer. "No," she went on hurriedly, mistaking his hesitation. "They made you promise, an' I don't want to know. If I knew, he'd force it out o' me, an' then he 'd cut my heart out."
"If you'd a-seen him scoot, you'd a-knowed that he was dead skeered, and would never turn up here no more, bear or no bear." Mrs. Chester looked at me. She was greatly worried, but she was also amused, and she could not help laughing. "Isn't this a dreadful predicament?" she said. "What in the world am I to do?" At this moment there was an acidulated voice from the kitchen. "Mrs.
Was all that tender care of his whiskers to be wasted on scenery? However, after a drink or two he resignedly took his belongings, and dropping into the wet and dirty boat with Bauda, he lifted an umbrella over his gaudy cap and disappeared in the rain. "'E's got a bloomin' nice place to live in," remarked Lying Bill. "Now, if 'e 'd a-been 'ere when I come 'e 'd a-seen something!
Since then I've guv up the tender passion and guv up writin' letters." "Well, you have had bad luck, Simon; but perhaps you'll be more fortunate next time. Mr. Temple tells me you have something to tell me about the ghost. What is it?" "You ain't a-seen that 'ere hinfidel willain since he went away from 'ere, Mr. Blake, have 'ee?" "I saw him in Hyde Park one day, but have never spoken to him."
But the worst was that my boy remained just the same as he was. I showed mun to the doctors, and they took blood from mun once and wanted to take more, but I wouldn't have that, for I'd a-seen what they was with their lancets if they was let alone; and at last they telled me that his mind was gone and wouldn't never come back.
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