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He was a very restless gentleman, sir, a-walkin' and a-stampin' all the time he was here. I was waitin' outside the door, sir, and I could hear him. At last he goes out into the passage and he cries: 'Is that man never goin' to come? Those were his very words, sir. 'You'll only need to wait a little longer, says I. 'Then I'll wait in the open air, for I feel half choked, says he.
"Well, I'll be danged!" exclaimed Job. "I knowed it! I knowed it!" cried the Ancient, rubbing his hands and chuckling. "Knowed what, Gaffer?" inquired Black George, as we came up. "Why, I knowed as this young chap would come out a-walkin' 'pon his own two legs, and not like Job, a-rollin' and a-wallerin' in the dust o' th' road like a hog."
"'An' all hard-earned money, too, said old Aaron; 'we've been a- sailin, an' a-fightin', an' a-shootin' folks, an a-stabbin' on 'em, an' a-slittin' of their wind-pipes, an' a-walkin' 'em on The Plank, for sixty-five year come the sixteenth o' next August. "'Well, what do you want? asked Black Pedro again. His voice was low, but terrible.
You hev been seed a-walkin' in the mountains together." "Who seed me? " she asked, with quick suspicion. The mountaineer hesitated. I hev," he said, doggedly. The girl's anger, which had been kindling against her gossiping fellows, blazed out against Raines. You've been watchin' me," she said, angrily. "Who give ye the right to do it?
I only hope you'll take care o' yourselves, and not compromise nothin' o' your dignity, which is a wery charmin' thing to see, when one's out a-walkin', and has always made me wery happy to look at, ever since I was a boy about half as high as the brass-headed stick o' my wery respectable friend, Blazes, there.
We had meal an' pork an' beef an' greens to eat. That was mos'ly what we had. Many a time when noontime come an' we'd go to eat our vittals the marster would come a-walkin' through the fiel with ten or twelve o' his houn' dogs. If he looked in the pails an' was displeased with what he seen in 'em, he took 'em an' dumped 'em out before our very eyes an' let the dogs grab it up.
"I thart I yeard a chap a-walkin," trembled the scarecrow. He let the dead man's hand flop into the water. "Plenty o chaps not much walkin," chirped a voice of one unseen. A treble laugh greeted the sally. Round the Head a boat came paddling. In it was a man fat as a sow, and not unlike one. Honey-coloured ringlets hung down to his neck.
Yass, sah, if we go a-walkin' along dat yeh road, fust thing we know we's gwine walk into a whole mob of dem yeh heathens. Den whar'll we be?" In answer to his question, the negro thrust out his left hand and, grasping an imaginary opponent by the throat, raised the cleaver, and swept it through the air with a slicing motion.
I'm blessed if here ain't two old neighbours of ourn, sir! 'What neighbours? cried old Martin, looking out of window. 'Where? 'I was a-walkin' up and down not five yards from this spot, said Mr Tapley, breathless, 'and they come upon me like their own ghosts, as I thought they was! It's the wonderfulest ewent that ever happened. Bring a feather, somebody, and knock me down with it!
"She's not dead?" said Tom, sinking into a chair. "No, thank God; we've got her still wid us; but me man's come home to-night nigh crazy. He's a-walkin' the floor this minute, an' so I goes to Mrs. Todd, an' she come wid me. If he loses the job now, we're in the street.
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