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Come now, be ye a dook or bean't ye yes or ne, Peter?" and he fixed me with his eye. "No, Ancient," I answered, smiling; "I'm no duke." "Ah well! a earl, then?" "Nor an earl." "A barrynet, p'r'aps?" "Not even a baronet." "Ah!" said the old man, eyeing me doubtfully, "I've often thought as you might be one or t' other of 'em 'specially since 'bout three o' the clock 's arternoon." "Why so?"
We hammered away under this, carryin' on very heavy, 'cause she were headin' west-nor'west, which were a good course, till eight bells in the arternoon watch, when the sea gittin' up so tremendiously we had to furl the reefed mainsail and mizzen topsail and close reef the fore and main topsails.
We laid by during the heat of the day at Horse-head, and started again late in de arternoon; dat made it one o'clock when we arrove at home last night, or leastways this morning." "Well, and what brought you down here? Has the judge sent any messages to me?" "Yes, he have; he want you to come right up to de house and fetch de farm books, so he can see how the 'counts stands."
"For the next three or four weeks Bob Pretty seemed to keep very quiet, and we all began to think as 'ow he 'ad made a mistake for once. Everybody else was trying their 'ardest for the watch, and all Bob done was to make a laugh of 'em and to say he believed it was on'y made of brass arter all. Then one arternoon, just a few days afore Mr.
"Take seats, friends, and form a circle o' harmony," said Saul Chaney. "The me'jum is in fine condition: he had two fits this arternoon." Gershom looked shockingly ill and weak. He reclined in a great hickory arm-chair, with his eyes half open, his lips moving noiselessly. All the persons present formed a circle and joined hands.
'Of what kind of things now? inquired Poll, greedily biting his nails in his great interest. 'Ghosts? Mrs Gamp, who perhaps had been already tempted further than she had intended to go, by the barber's stimulating curiosity, gave a sniff of uncommon significance, and said, it didn't signify. 'I'm a-goin down with my patient in the coach this arternoon, she proceeded.
Good arternoon, sir, and don't git stoppin' no more o' them there bullets." He touched his forelock. "But tell me?" I said. "Did the first lieutenant and doctor make it up all right?" "Bet your life they did, sir," he said with a laugh, moving off. "Them haffairs wus almost o' daily hoccurrence." "Good luck to you," I called out after him, "and thank you for a most instructive twenty minutes!"
It's an awful affair.... But come!" he added, recovering himself, "there's something else to do now. We've got word from Colonel Allen. The troops are almost here. An' as good as we've done, there ain't ha'f enough boats to transport our boys across the lake." "There may be more comin' from the north, 'Siah," suggested Brown. "Y' know ye sent some of the boys up that way this arternoon."
"Oi hear, at noine o'clock last noight he walked in to Justice Thompson's and said as he had coom to give hisself up. He said as how he had been over at Painton, where the old woman as was his nurse lives; and directly as the news coom in t' arternoon as Foxey had been killed and he was wanted for the murder, he coom straight over." "That's roight," Luke said heartily; "that settles it.
"'E's comin' along th' Spider's bringin' un. Ye see, he's a bit wore out same as I am we been trampin' all th' arternoon. Look at me shoes, that's th' worst o' patent leather they shows th' dust. Joe, my lad, jest give 'em a flick over with ye wipe." But at this moment steps were heard slowly approaching, and Hermione uttered an inarticulate cry, then spoke in an agonised whisper: "Arthur!"
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