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Come when you like, you kin examine everything in the safe. I'm not afeer'd fer ye to look." He took a step or two forward with the intention of leaving. "Wait a minute," said the chairman. "Don't be in too big a hurry. We'll go along with you. It's always good to have company on such occasions." "I don't want anyone," snapped Farrington, turning angrily upon him. "No, I know you don't.
"Lieutenant Skaggs," he called, sharply, "git yo' men out thar an' draw 'em up in two rows!" The face of the student of military tactics looked horrified. The captain in his excitement had relaxed into language that was distinctly agricultural, and, catching the look on his subordinate's face, and at the same time the reason for it, he roared, indignantly: "Air you afeer'd, sir?
Turning down a narrow alley, and crossing a low dirty-looking court, Martin's guide stopped before a door, which he pushed open and mounted by a flight of rickety wooden stairs to a garret. He opened the door and entered. "There she is," said the man in a tone of pity, as he pointed to a corner of the apartment, "an' I'm afeer'd she's goin' fast."
Lieutenant Boggs looked embarrassed and strode nearer. "Captain, whar am I goin' to git ten men to face them Kanetuckians?" "Whar air they goin' to git a off'cer to lead 'em, you'd better say," said the captain, severely, fearing that some of the soldiers had heard the question. "If you air afeer'd, suh" and then he saw that no one had heard, and he winked winked with most unmilitary familiarity.
She went on muttering some more of the Bible texts she always called on in any perplexity, until a new idea flashed to her from some uncovered ember, and she turned quickly, laughing in a low, shrill way, "He! he! he! woy'se ole Juno afeer'd? He! he! he! 'spects it on'y debbil dat has tole lies to dis poor ole nigger when she's 'sleep."
'Energetic, eh? said Mr. Pickwick. 'Uncommon, replied Sam; 'I never see men eat and drink so much afore. I wonder they ain't afeer'd o' bustin'. 'That's the mistaken kindness of the gentry here, said Mr. Pickwick. 'Wery likely, replied Sam briefly. 'Fine, fresh, hearty fellows they seem, said Mr. Pickwick, glancing from the window.
Turning down a narrow alley, and crossing a low dirty-looking court, Martin's guide stopped before a door, which he pushed open and mounted by a flight of rickety wooden stairs to a garret. He opened the door and entered. "There she is," said the man in a tone of pity, as he pointed to a corner of the apartment, "an' I'm afeer'd she's goin' fast."
He seed I wuz lookin' at him, an' he jes' went on up an' out uv sight, in a hurry, like." "What time was that?" "Dat wuz twenty-six minutes uv two." "How do you know that? You'd gone back to sleep, hadn't you?" "Yas, suh, a little niggerin'. But, when I woke up dat way widout no reason, I kinder jumped. I wuz afeer'd dat clock might be goin' to jar me ag'in, an' I took a look at it.
Never show'd no white feather while thar was breath in his body. Mars Lennox, I jest drapped on my knees, and I trimbled, and my teeth chattered, and I felt the hair as it riz straight up. I was afeer'd to stay, and I was afeer'd to move; but I shet my eyes and crawled back'ards easy to the aidge of the steps, and then run as fast as I could.
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