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"Oh, Natty Bell!" exclaimed John, beckoning him near, "come to this lad of ours do, he's axing me questions, one a-top of t' other till I don't know what! 'Do I know Lady Cleone? says he; next it'll be 'how' and 'what' and 'where' tell him all about it. Natty Bell do."
'Sylvia, thy mother is axing for thee, and I cannot make her mind easy. In a moment Sylvia had sprung up from her seat, and was running in to soothe and comfort her mother's troubled fancies. Philip sate on by the well-side, his face buried in his two hands.
"Lord bless you, no sir! This ain't no spectre, nor yet no skellington, which, arter all, is only old bones an' such, no this ain't nothin' of that sort, an' no more it ain't a thing as I can stand 'ere a maggin' about wi' a long day's work afore me, axing your pardon, sir." Saying which, the Waggoner nodded suddenly and strode off with his pails clanking cheerily.
"Would you mind axing him to pardon a poor boy, Mr. McKeon?" "May God pardon you, Brady. Your master that was, has been taught before this to forgive all his enemies; but I wouldn't dirty my mouth with your name the last time I see him." "Sorrow a word of a lie thin I towld, Mr. McKeon." "Never mind; truth or lies it's much the same."
"Well, in troth, your Holiness," says Father Tom, "I knewn there was no use in axing; only," says he, "I didn't know how else to exqueeze the liberty I tuck," says he, "of bringing a small taste," says he, "of the real stuff," says he, hauling out an imperi'l quart bottle out ov his coat-pocket; "that never seen the face ov a guager," says he, setting it down on the table fornenst the Pope; "and if you'll jist thry the full ov a thimble ov it, and it doesn't rise the cockles ov your Holiness's heart, why then, my name," says he, "isn't Tom Maguire!" and with that he out's wid the cork.
Joe was very much excited and half tipsy; but he only said what most of them were waiting to hear said, and what each of them expected; not one voice was raised in dissent. Pat said nothing, but smoked and gazed on the fire. "Masther Thady'll be in at the wedding to-morrow, Pat?" "Oh in course he will." "Will you be axing him, thin?" "Axing him what? is it to murther Ussher?"
I thanked Steel Spring for his information, and then whispered, while I placed some gold coins in his hand, "Don't you think that you could contrive to let Captain Ross know something in regard to the artillery company?" "I s'pose you have some veighty reasons for axing me to do it?" the spy replied. "So weighty, that ten sovereigns will be given to the man who conveys the information."
"Do you-all want to buy eight quarts of wild strawberries?" he asked in that low fine voice of his. "Buy?" demanded Lily Ivy scornfully. "Miss Cyn, honey, go fotch Miss Ann and tell her one ob dem Morleys is here axing us-all to buy his berries, and him in shreds and tatters!" Presently Cynthia returned with her aunt.
"Thirty of 'em, Joe," said Ravenslee, holding out a wad of bills. "Why, sir," said Joe, backing away, "axing yer pardon, but I'd rayther not you give me such uncommon good wages, sir, and a bonus every race we run, win or lose so, sir, I I'd rayther not " "Not?" cried the Old Un, "not take money as is 'arf mine Oh, kick 'im, somebody kick 'im! Pound 'im for a pigeon-'earted perishin' pork pig "
"Nay, you're wrong there," said another; "he's got more sense than to spend his brass on such things as that, he's saving it up for a new clock and a dresser!" "Come, Betsy, where did you get it?" "You'll never guess, so it's no use axing," said Betsy, laughing. "It ain't mine; but it'll be mine till its proper owner comes and claims it." "Oh, you picked it up as you was coming to the mill!"
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