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From the first I see what he was after coming round and round, and hinting things! But to-night he outs with it plump! I'm to let him hear all what you're to do beforehand, he says; and he gave me this for an arnest" holding up half a guinea; "and I took it, so I did! Strike me sky-blue scarlet!" says he, adducing the words of the mock oath; and he looked askance at me as he did so.
My father had this stubborn virtue to the full; and so had that old Ironside Ireton from whom we are descended. "That's the kind o' talk!" was the old man's comment. "Now we'll set to work in sure-enough arnest. Ez I said a spell back, my stummick is crying cupboard till I can't make out to hear my brain a-sizzling.
"Well, yes, of course," said the sailor. "Why not sometimes for a bit of fun? but when a man's in 'arnest he ought to be believed." "Of course," said Tom; "but I say, mate, you never see the sea-serpent, did you?" The man did not answer for a few moments, but stood gazing straight out to sea before saying quietly: "I don't know.
"Get your shooting-irons and hurry up," he said. "The varmints are coming this time in arnest." In a minute everyone was at the post assigned to him. A number of dark figures could be seen coming over the ice. "There's nigh two hundred of 'em," Peter said. "War Eagle has brought the whole strength of his tribe."
She turned her face over her shoulder toward me, and said, without even a smile her voice: "Misto C , is you in 'arnest?" It surprised me a good deal; and it sobered my manner and my speech, too. I said: "Why, I thought that is, I meant why, you can't have had any trouble. I've never heard you sigh, and never seen your eye when there wasn't a laugh in it."
As the boatswain was obeying this order, a second gun was heard, and Spike thought that the noise made by the near passage of a large shot was audible also. He called out to Ben to "bear a hand, as the ship seems in 'arnest." But the head of the boatswain being under water at the time, the admonition was thrown away.
That's just what you are," said Miss Butterworth, laughing in spite of herself. "Well, ye can whittle any sort of a head out of a block," said Jim imperturbably. "Let's have done with joking," said the tailoress solemnly. "I hain't been jokin'," said Jim. "I'm in 'arnest. I been thinkin' o' ye ever sence the town-meetin'. I been kinder livin' on yer looks.
"Perhaps," said the individual with whom Herbert Arnest was conversing, "it is your wounded self-love, more than your high regard for principle, that speaks so eloquently against Marston." "Mr. Welford!" "Nay, my young friend, do not be offended with me. Your years, twice told, would not make mine.
But he had a forgiving disposition, and very many amiable and excellent qualities. Arnest was also quick-tempered. His leading defect of character was self-esteem, which made him exceedingly sensitive in regard to the conduct of others as affecting the general estimation of himself. He could not bear to have any freedom taken with him, in company, even by his best friend.
Now, no man's got a rite to waste anything, so we fishermen begun to pay sum attention to the opium-smokers in good arnest." Here I interrupted the speaker to ask him if it would be safe for me to travel alone through the fishing-grounds of these Chinese. "Oh, shucks! safe enuf now," he answered. "Once they was a bad set; but a change has cum over 'em they're CIVILIZED now."
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