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"Ay; I can't settle to work nohow since the dear old woman went away; so, as Nell is agreeable, and there's nothin' to keep me here, I've decided to up anchor and bear away for the southern seas." The bowman had seated himself on a cask while his friend was speaking, and gazed at him with a bewildered air. "Are 'ee in arnest, Bob?" "Ay, Joe, in dead earnest."
"Ye did well, ye did well," responded the Trapper, laughing; "for a loaded sled goes down hill mighty fast when the slide is a steep un, and a man who gits to the bottom as quick as the sled must have a good grip, and be considerably in 'arnest. But ye got her up finally by the same path, didn't ye?" "Yes, I got her up," returned Bill.
And aren't I ready to go down on my two knees this blessed minit and beg your apostolical pardon for every word that I said to your displasement?" "Are you in arnest that it is in fun you wer?" says the Pope. "May I never die if I aren't," says his Riv'rence. "It was all to provoke your Holiness to commit a brache ov the Latin, that I tuck the small liberties I did," says he.
De Elder's gwine to call on you dis ebenin'. Ef you'd had de popoplexy in arnest, we'd make great 'lowance fer you, but wen you eat an' drink till you mos' ready to bust, and den'sturb de hull meetin' by snortin' like a 'potamus, dar's got to be trouble, an' I'se got to meet it." Uncle Sheba did as he was directed, with the feeling that the judgment day had come.
"Virgin Mary! there they are at it," said Dan; "now they're oncet began in arnest, they'll not lave it till they're both dead, or there's not a grain of powdher left. Bad cess to them Majors for bringing thim together; couldn't they be fighting theyselles av they plazed, and not be setting the real gentry of the counthry at each other like game cocks?" "Had they much powdher I wonder, Dan?
He turned quickly and hurried away, followed by the outlaw. "Most awrful!" groaned Quashy, when they were gone. "Awful indeed, to think that Manuela and her father are in the hands of such villains!" returned Lawrence. "An' Sooz'n," said Quashy, with a deeper groan. "But, massa, what's come ober de ole hunter? He not in arnest, ob course."
He regretted having uttered them and waited only until he should leave the company with Arnest, to express his sorrow for what he had done. But his friend did not give him this opportunity, for he managed to retire alone, thus expressing to Marston the fact that he was seriously offended.
Rogers to Susan one afternoon as she sat on the back door-step, marking a basket of eggs to set. "But now thet warm weathah's tekin' holt in arnest, thar's more important things ter think 'bout.
But he was careful not to do any thing that violated his own self-respect. The breach between the young men occurred thus. The two friends were in company with several others, and there was present a young lady in whose eyes Arnest wished to appear in as favourable a light as possible.
"Well, seein' that you seem to be of the right sort, and be so likely to put on the Injin shirt, I'll tell you all about it. We mean to get good and old farms at favourable rates. That's what we mean to do. The people's up and in 'arnest, and what the people want they'll have! This time they want farms, and farms they must have.
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