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"Well, it's something to have one virtue! But have a care what those chatter-boxes get out of you." "Lord, sir! Ain't I been a-taking care these ten years? It comes quite natural now. I couldn't keep my tongue still; that wouldn't be in anyways possible. So I've let it run on oiled wheels on a thousand rum tracks and doublings.
Ah, them was fine times, they was, for the watermen on Hardway; for they usest to make a rare harvest a-taking off witnesses and prisoners' `friends, as they calls 'em, and lawyers and noospaper chaps to the flagship, they did. The old chaps called the signal gun `old Fitzblazes's Eight o'clock Gun, sir. They did so, sir, yezsir!"
"They both coughed arter that, and like a goodnatured fool I stood 'em a sixpenny cigar apiece, and I 'ad just turned to go back to my seat when up come two more hands from the Lizzie and Annie. "'Halloa, watchman! ses one of 'em. 'Why, I thought you was a-taking care of the wharf. "'He's got something better than the wharf to take care of, ses Bob, grinning.
And I thinks to myself what a fool I must of been fur better'n a year, because I might of done this any time. I got him by the ears and I slammed his head into the gravel a few times, him a-reaching fur my throat, and a-pounding me with his fists, but me a-taking the licks and keeping holt.
MERCY. Neighbour, I did, indeed, come with you to see Christiana this morning; and since she is, as you see, a-taking of her last farewell of her country, I think to walk, this sun-shine morning, a little way with her, to help her on the way. But she told her not of the second reason, but kept that to herself.
"D'ye think I'm going to waste any more time on such brats and their nonsense? Catch me a-taking you home for you to go and say I've stolen your money, and get me put in prison by your grandpapas and grandmammas as likely as not," he went on in a half-threatening, half-whining tone. Duke was going to answer, but Pamela pulled his sleeve. "Be quiet, bruvver," she said in a whisper.
The old man chuckled his dry little laugh, though what food for merriment he could find in the hopeless prospect was more than I could understand. "Ho! ho! Cap'n John; I reckon ez how ye're a-taking that word from yonder down-hearted boy of our'n. Wait a spell till ye're ez old ez I be; then you'll never say die till ye're plumb dead."
"At what time, and from whom, did you first hear of Mr. Mainwaring's death?" "About half-past seven, yesterday morning, sir. I was a-taking care of the horses, sir, when Uncle Mose he's the gardener, sir he comes past the stable on his way to the tool-house, and he tells me that Mr. Mainwaring had been murdered in the night, right in his own rooms, and then he tells me-"
"It's two childer, sir," repeated Tim "two small childer as has got strayed away from their home you may have heard of it? and I'm a-taking them back, only I'm not rightly sure of the way, and I thought I thought, as it was the best to ax you, seeing as you've maybe heard " but here Tim's voice, which had been faltering somewhat, so keen and hard was the look directed upon him, came altogether to an end; and he grew so red and looked so uneasy that perhaps it was no wonder if Superintendent Boyds thought him a suspicious character.
Oh, I set up such a screetch; and young Dobbins was a-taking his cow out of the field, and he perked up over the hedge when he heard me; and the cow, too, with her horns, Lord bless her! So the fellow stopped, and I bustled through the gate, and got home. But la, miss, if we are all robbed and murdered?"
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