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"Yes, sir; you'll find him there, sir, and frisky as a spring lamb without the peas, bless his heart! Been to the weddin' of Lady Chepstow and that there Captain Hawksley this afternoon, sir, and must have enjoyed hisself, the way he's been a-whistling and a-singing ever since he come home. What a feed they must of had with all their money! It seems almost a crime to 'a' missed it.
Rucker beamed on his friend Crabtree as he wound one of his wife's apron strings all around one of his long fingers, a habit he had that amused him and he knew in his secret heart teased her. "Now just look at Bob tracking down Providence Road a-whistling like a partridge in the wheat for Louisa Helen.
"Martin," says she, "should you not truss your bird first, Martin?" "'Twill do as it is." "Very well, Martin. But why are you so short with me?" "I am surly by nature!" quoth I. "Aye, true!" she nodded, "But why are you angry with me this time?" "I ha' forgot." "You were merry enough this noon and laughed gaily, and once you fell a-whistling " "The more fool I!"
And to prove it to me, he says his father has this town all underlaid with nitro-glycerine, and as soon as he gets ready he's going to blow the old thing out, and bust her up, let her rip, and demolish her. He said so down at the dam, and tole me not to tell anybody, but I thought they'd be no harm in mentioning it to you. "And now I believe I must be going. I hear Bill a-whistling.
Then the big red man stood up and looked over his left shoulder and said: "Soon shall we have a breeze and bright weather." Then he looked into the midmost of the sail and fell a-whistling such a tune as the fiddles play to dancing men and maids at Yule-tide, and his eyes gleamed and glittered therewithal, and exceeding big he looked.
"Poor thing," I said. "My God, why? When I slipped my arm around her she put up her face to be kissed. It was give and take, and no harm done and the moon a-laughing at us both. And why the devil she should look at me reproachfully is more than I can comprehend." "It seems a cruel business," said I. "Cruel!" "Aye to awake a heart and pass your way a-whistling."
And presently, being intent on the business, I forgot all else and seeing this little bower was turning out much better than I had hoped, I fell a-whistling, until, hearing a step, I turned to find Joanna leaning upon Resolution's arm and in her eyes such a look of yearning tenderness as filled me with a mighty disquiet.
He was walking along Farmer Hall's field the one next to the squire's plantation and, so far from being nervous, 'e was actually a-whistling. He'd got a sack over 'is shoulder, loaded as full as it could be, and 'e 'ad just stopped to light 'is pipe when three men burst out o' the plantation and ran toward 'im as 'ard as they could run.
He was walking along Farmer Hall's field the one next to the squire's plantation and, so far from being nervous, 'e was actually a-whistling. He'd got a sack over 'is shoulder, loaded as full as it could be, and 'e 'ad just stopped to light 'is pipe when three men burst out o' the plantation and ran toward 'im as 'ard as they could run.
An' ses he, 'Wilkins, ses he, 'that boy's lame and I'm not, and I want to talk to him, too. And up the lad has to get, and my lord trudges alongside of him with his hands in his pockets, and his cap on the back of his head, a-whistling and talking as easy as you please!
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