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"I want to get back to Boston." "Perhaps I can put you aboard of some coaster bound there." "That will do nicely." "I will head towards Boston, and if I don't overhaul any thing, I will take you there myself." "Is this boat big enough to go so far?" "She'll stand anything short of a West India hurricane. You ain't afeerd, are you?" "O, no; I like it."
Mebbe you've noticed whut fellers us mountain folks air fer whisperin'. You've seed fellers a-whisperin' all over Hazlan on court day, hain't ye? Ole Tom Perkins 'll put his arm aroun' yo' neck an' whisper in yo' year ef he's ten mile out'n the woods. I reckon thar's jes so much devilmint a-goin' on in these mountains, folks is naturely afeerd to talk out loud.
But, my chile, I should be afeerd to go thar now, strong and supple a man as I am, much less a poor, weakly lookin' woman like yerself." "No, Uncle Jack, I am not afraid. The soldiers would not molest me, and the shells cannot strike me, so I go undaunted. I am seeking my husband, and must find him. How far is it, Uncle Jack, to the Queen City?" "More'n a hundred mile, chile."
"I'd think you'd be afeerd o' makin' Toot madder at you 'n he already is," she said to Harriet. The girl did not look at her. She was watching Westerfelt, who had suddenly moved to the bed and sat down. When she spoke she directed her explanation to Bradley rather than to his wife. "Mother and I thought Mr.
'This here, Sir, rejoined Sam. 'I'm wery much afeerd, sir, that the properiator o' this here coach is a playin' some imperence vith us. 'How is that, Sam? said Mr. Pickwick; 'aren't the names down on the way-bill?
He is properly hen-pecked," said he; "he is afeerd to call his soul his own, and he leads the life of a dog; you never seed the beat of it, I vow. Did you ever see a rooster hatch a brood of chickens?" "No," said I, "not that I can recollect."
So, when the Widow Crane began to build a brick house for her boarders that winter, and the foundations of a school-house were laid at the Gap, Hale began to plead with old Judd to allow June to go over to the Gap and go to school, but the old man was firm in refusal: "He couldn't git along without her," he said; "he was afeerd he'd lose her, an' he reckoned June was a-larnin' enough without goin' to school she was a-studyin' them leetle books o' hers so hard."
"No, you go. I can't do it," said Bill, scratching the gravel walk with his toes. "I say somebody's got to go," said the first speaker. "I'll go," said Boone Jones, the toughest of the party. "I ain't afeerd," he added huskily, as he took the flowers in his hand and knocked at the door. But when Boone got in, and saw Priscilla lying there so white, he began to choke with a strange emotion.
'I do mean that, Sammy, replied his father, 'and I vish you could ha' seen how tight he held on by the sides wen he did get up, as if he wos afeerd o' being precipitayted down full six foot, and dashed into a million hatoms. He tumbled in at last, however, and avay ve vent; and I rayther think I say I rayther think, Samivel that he found his-self a little jolted ven ve turned the corners.
"Oh, no," moaned Paddy, "there was one good friend that did not forget us." "Well," said Jem, "he seemed mighty afeerd of coming in. I suppose he thought it was on his advice that we went where we did, and he was afeerd we thought badly of him for it; but of course we had no blame to put on the poor little man." "In Heaven's name, who are you talking of?" said I. "Doctor Chord," answered Jem.
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