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"When a man consorts much with a people," continued Hawkeye, "if they are honest and he no knave, love will grow up atwixt them.
"He's doon in a roight laine atwixt 't gray stean and yon hoigh ashen tree." "Did you ever see such admirable shooting, though?" asked A , in a low voice. "I did not know Forester shot like that." "Some times he does. When he's cool. He is not certain; that is his only fault.
He wished with a passionate and bitter regret that he had not been so many weeks without coming near these two people; and now 'Lias was going fast, and after to-day he would see them both no more for ever? Margaret heard him moving, and nodded back to him over her shoulder. 'Yo've slept well, Davy, better nor I thowt yo would. Your cloos are by yo atwixt yo an t'stairs.
Perhaps he was, but I guess that eye didn't pump its water out o' that place. Members in general aint to be depended on, I tell you. An honest farmer, like one of these Cumberland folks, when he goes to choose atwixt two that offers for votes, is jist like the flying fish.
"If 'a can only get Miss Faith, his bread 'll be buttered to both sides for life his self to one side, and her to do the tother. The same as I told Mother Cloam a man that knoweth his duty to head gardeners, as his noble lordship doth, the same know the differ atwixt Miss Faith as fine a young 'ooman as ever looked into a pink and that blow-away froth of a thing, Miss Dolly."
'Be the same towken, what is it that we can do? 'Jerusalem! They'll be sure to pay us a visit. I'll be gumtued if they won't, added the Yankee, in some trepidation, as he cowered down again by the side of the hunter, and said to him in a lower Voice: 'The worst of it is, we haven't got a gun atwixt us. Of course we shall stick by you if we have to lose our heads fur it.
Yet a red natur' is not likely to alter with every shift of policy; so that the love atwixt a Mohican and a Mingo is much like the regard between a white man and a sarpent." "I regret to hear it; for I had believed those natives who dwelt within our boundaries had found us too just and liberal, not to identify themselves fully with our quarrels."
"Well, sir, you know that an oak-ball will smoke when you bust it atwixt your fingers but there ain't no fire in it," grunted Ham, philosophically. "Folk says that there can't be smoke without some fire. The oak-ball disproves it. And it's so with gossip. Gossip is the only thing that don't really need a beginning. It's hatched without the sign of an egg " "Oh, hang your platitudes, Ham!" I cried.
When the mountain boy challenges his mate: "I dar ye I ain't afeared!" his verb and participle are of the same ancient and sterling rank. Afore, atwixt, awar, heap o' folks, peart, up and done it, usen for used, all these everyday expressions of the backwoods were contemporary with the Canterbury Tales.
With an impatient exclamation, the officer went on towards the village; and gaining their feet, the two men reached the road. 'There's a path alongside, sir, whispered Mathews, 'and you and me is goin' to put as much terry-firmy atwixt this village and us as our four legs can do. Now, sir, we're off! With lowered heads, they broke into a run.
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