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She is beginning to be afraid that the country is one in which even she herself cannot live in safety." And the men looked to be dumbfoundered and sheepfaced. They kept out of Captain Clayton's way, and answered him as little as possible. "What's the good of axing when ye knows that I knows nothing?"
Morning brought no letter nor yet telegram, so Amos went down to Merripit post office and sent a wire off to the Exeter lawyers axing for news of his brother; and he waited till an answer came down. It ran like this: Mr. Gregory spent an hour with us yesterday and left at four o'clock to catch down train. Cousins and Slark.
"Paul, thy heart be good, thy heart be good; thou didst not spill a drop of the tape! Tell me, my honey, why didst thou lick Tom Tobyson?" "Because," answered Paul, "he said as how you ought to have been hanged long ago." Mind thy latter end, Paul, and reverence the old, without axing what they has been before they passed into the wale of years.
Pete grunted and glimed, smoked up the chimney, and said, "That'll do, ma'am, that'll do. Don't believe all you hear. John says more than his Amens, anyway." "I'm axing your pardon, miss," said the girl to Kate, "but I couldn't help coming I couldn't really no, I couldn't," and then she began to cry. "Where's that child?" said Pete, heaving up to his feet with a ferocious look.
"Axing pardon for taking up any of your time, sir," he began, "but theer'm a matter concerning a party in your business as painted a maiden here, by name o' Joan Tregenza. She weern't nobody awnly a fisherman's darter, but the picksher was said to be done in these paarts, an' I thot, maybe, you'd knaw who drawed it."
"Lord love me, my Lord, and is it you?" he exclaimed, clasping the hand the Viscount had extended. "Now, from what that imp of a bye axing his parding your tiger, Mr. Milo, told me, I were to expect you at nine sharp and here it be nigh on to ten " "True, Jack; but then both he and I reckoned without my father.
An' look you," and he led him to the door as he spoke, and pointed to the two within "they'll soon know who you are, an' all about it; but you needn't be talking to them, you know; an' you may be quite certain, that even should any one be axing about you, they'll niver 'peach, or give the word to the police, or any one else.
Every eye was flashing, and every tongue in full exercise, when Johnson entered. "Well, Thomas," said his wife, "I thought you were down at the `George. Our Betty's not so well, so she's gone up into the chamber to lay her down a bit; and I've just been axing a neighbour or two to come in and have a bit of a talk over our Sammul.
How could he go for to think he'd not be welcome! Ye'll write and an' tell him he'll be welcome, sir, wunnot ye?" He nodded. "Eh, I'd be fain to see him, I would that! Ye'll tell him kind an' careful, mester, about me havin' to shift here, an' dunnot let him think I'm axing him to do mich for me." "It's time for him to do summat for ye, though," said Will's friend gruffly.
Th' factory doors will need open wide to-morrow to let in all who'll be axing for work; if it's only just to show they'd nought to do wi' a measure, which if we'd been made o' th' right stuff would ha' brought wages up to a point they'n not been at this ten year. 'You'll get work, shan't you? asked Margaret. 'You're a famous workman, are not you?
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