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I'm an orphantulatory one myself. You absquatulated, I presume; a levantular movement at midnight ran away, hey? I admitted it, and Mr. Perkins nodded in a pleased way, as though discovering an accomplishment in me. 'That's what I did, too; not from an orphanage, but from the paternal roof and shop.
"Thar has been a black wolf in the pin-fold, alias, as they used to say at the court-house, Captain Ralph Stackpole; and the end of it is, war I never to tell another truth in my life, that your blooded brown horse has absquatulated!" "Absquatulated!" echoed Forrester, amazed as much at the word as at the fierce visage of his friend, "what is that? Is the horse hurt?"
"He protected me," she said. "It was while defending me that he was wounded." Her eyes searched the physician's face. "Where," she questioned fearfully, "is " "McTurpin?" returned the doctor. "Lord knows. He vamoosed, absquatulated. You'll hear no more of him, I think, Miss Windham."
Fullalove referred her with humour-twinkling eye to Vespasian. "I have a friend here who says he can tell you something about him." "Can you, my good man?" inquired the lady, turning haughtily towards the negro. "Iss, Missy," said Vespasian, showing his white teeth in a broad grin, "dis child knows where to find dat ar niggar, widout him been and absquatulated since."
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