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'Oh! she's all right, sir. 'Did she find her husband? 'Yes, sir. Leastways she's found his remains, said Mark, correcting himself. 'The man's not dead, I hope? 'Not altogether dead, sir, returned Mark; 'but he's had more fevers and agues than is quite reconcilable with being alive. When she didn't see him a-waiting for her, I thought she'd have died herself, I did! 'Was he not here, then?
You took a laugh out'n me, Cap'n Dick, for spying 'round on that there Britisher hoss-captain and his redskins; but 'long to'ards the last I met up with a thing 'r two wo'th knowing. 'Twas a powder and lead cargo they was a-waiting for; and they're allowing to sneak it through the mountings to the overhill Cherokees." "Well?" says Dick.
"But what else is to be done?" "Well, now, sir you hear me," says Rowley. "I think it would look more natural-like if you was to come to the post-house alone, and with nothing in your 'ands more like a gentleman, you know. And you might say that your servant and baggage was a-waiting for you up the road.
I asked the meaning of his statement that he would not "mind the publication if the story were done right." "Well," he said with his mountain drawl, "I don't want you bearing down too much on that killing part. Tell it without so much of that!" A rock was picked up and hurled down the mountain. I then understood why the little mother was "jes' a-waiting till Alvin gits ready to talk."
It really does seem as if an Injun jest naturally hates an apostate, and it beats me how they can tell 'em the minute they try to sneak out of this valley of the Lord. They must lie out in them hills jest a-waiting for apostates; and they won't have anything else; they never touch the faithful. You wouldn't think they had so much fine feeling to look at 'em.
"And so I am, ma'am," answered a slight, little woman, with a freckled complexion, and immense quantities of red hair gathered back of her head in the fangs of a huge comb that had been fashionable twenty-five years before; "been a-waiting at that identical front door full on to an hour, expecting you every minet; but better late than never. You're welcome, ma'am, as scraps to a beggar's basket."
Willoughby, with a sly look at the deacons. "And me a-waitin' to discuss the new church service," bellowed Strong. "And me a-waiting to give him Mrs. Elverson's message," piped Elverson. "The church bore all this in silence so long as that girl was sick," snapped Miss Perkins. "But now she's perfectly well, and still a-hanging on. No wonder folks are talking." "Who's talking?" thundered Strong.
I'm sorry I was late, and I'm sorry to disappoint you; but you're like the lad that drives the hansom cab, see? you're not in it." "But indeed," said Miss Casey, later, "you shouldn't have kept me a-waiting. It wasn't civil." "I know," assented Hefty, gloomily, "but I came as soon as I could. I even went widout me supper so's to get here; an' they wuz expectin' me to stay to supper, too."
In a few minutes I would hear Joe's deep voice say, "I think you had better go on now. I've got my work to do, and I reckon you've got yours a-waiting for yer at your place." Then the side-door would shut, and Joe was bustling about his work. In the beginning of October we arrived in London. There had been much packing up, and much extra work for everybody, and Joe was in his element.
"I offered to dress her," said Jemima; "and she knows I can quite well; but she would not get up till you came, and made me fetch her a book. So there she is, a-waiting for you!" "I am sorry," said Mary; "but I had to go, and she was fast asleep." When she entered her room, Hesper gave her a cold glance over the top of her novel, and went on with her reading.
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