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Many a better scholar nor you, and better-looking man too, has been anged afore now, for all his schoolin'. "Says he, 'I'll soon set you up, Tom. Let me see if I can find anything here that will do for a turn-and-quit. "Close to where I lay there, was a furrin officer who had his head nearly amputated with a sabre cut.
Tell him we don't care a jackstraw for his mutiny, and that if he lives through it we'll take him in irons to Panama and have him hanged as high as Haman. Get that, my man?" demanded Blythe. "Yes, sir. 'Anged as 'igh as 'Aman. Hi'll remember, sir." Sam turned to me and spoke in a low voice. "Before this fellow goes I want Mott to hear what he has said. Take Yeager up with you and relieve him.
Company Officer controls a Company. Seven or eight days at Brake Camp were followed by a week at English Camp, from whence working parties daily moved up the Line by rail to the vicinity of Merrythought Station. The Ten Hundred were put through the mill as never before. "Out fer a rest," a Stafford summed up, "be 'anged fer a yarn ... called the last place Brake ... breaking us in fer this."
His lip twitched and he fell to studying the ground. David did not smile. He looked away, for he understood the longing that was in the heart of this lowly-born jester who did not even pretend to be a gentleman. "No," said Joey after a long time, "he won't even ask 'er, 'Ow can he, feeling as he does about hisself? You see, he says he's going to be 'anged some day afore he gets through.
'I'll tell that to Mr Attwater, replied Huish, stepping briskly on the ladder. 'I don't tell it to you, because you played the trucklin' sneak. Here's a letter for him: tyke it, and give it, and be 'anged to you! 'Davis, is this all right? said Herrick. Davis raised his chin, glanced swiftly at Herrick and away again, and held his peace.
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