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"Nay, none know the word but the three chiefs," returned Dick; "but here is your great good fortune, that, on this very evening, I should be the bearer of a spell to open it. It is a thing not trusted twice a year beyond the captain's wallet." "A spell!" said Arblaster, half awakening, and squinting upon Dick with one eye. "Aroint thee! no spells! I be a good Christian. Ask my man Tom, else."
I kicked the brute out of doors this morning, on finding a letter from my dear one lying in my plate. "Avaunt, aroint thee, foul fiend!" I cried. "Thou art the veritable poodle in whose skin Mephistopheles hides when bent on direst mischief. I will set the sign of the cross upon my threshold, and thou shalt enter no more."
You shall not make a poetry cocktail out of Tennyson and Coleridge, and jam it down my throat; or I'll aroint myself. Besides, you're not a witch, at all. I know you for all your big cap, and your cloak, and the basket on your arm. 'Grandmother, what makes your teeth so white?" "No, no. I'm not that kind of a beastie, at all. Wrong guess, Guardy." "Yet there's a gleam of the hunt about you.
'Oh, how sweet! how jolly! cried a mixed chorus of young voices. 'A real gipsy, Mrs Pansey? and the good lady was besieged with questions. 'She is cunning and dirty enough to be genuine, my dears. Some of you may know her. Mother Jael! 'Aroint thee, witch! cried Dr Graham, 'that old beldam; oh, she can "pen dukherin" to some purpose. I have heard of her; so have the police.
"Wilt thou come to church and hear mass?" "That will I not, so long as ye do worship to other than God Almighty. Nothing that is made can be the same thing as he that made it. They must needs be idolators, and of the meanest sort, that worship the works of their own hands." "Aroint thee, old witch! Wilt thou go to confession?"
"Heaven save us from the powers of evil!" she said appreciatively. "Aroint thee, witch!" She threw the coin at the cactus. "Chrr-rr-rrum!" burbled the owl, and flew away. "I'm dizzy," said Io. "I wonder if the owl is an omen and whether the other inhabitants of this desert are like him; however much you turn their heads, they won't fall for you.
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