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"You would go back to that den of iniquity, surely not, to that thief Perceval?" "Well," said the trailer, slowly, "and he's not such a bad lot, neither. You see he could hev broke your neck that time when you was choking him, but he didn't. There's your train," he added hurriedly and jumping away. "Good-by. So long, old man. I'm much 'bliged to you jus' for asking me."
There is something wrong about Aunt Sophy's thimble, and if I don't get it soon I'll be 'bliged to tell her." Penelope's eyes looked like needles. She walked away. Pauline gazed after her; then she went into the house. "That thimble is really a very trifling matter," she said to herself, "but even that at the present moment annoys me.
"If I had only had eddication when I was in the sarvice, I'd ha' been a warrant officer with a long pension now, instead o' having a short one, and bein' 'bliged to trust to my own hands to lengthen it out.
Meanwhile, Ralph was as busy arranging with the retainers at Cliff Castle, and as soon as he had taken Nick Garth into his confidence, that gentleman lay down on the ground, and hid his face. "Why, what does that mean?" cried the lad. "Couldn't help it, sir. 'Bliged to, or I should have shouted for joy. Get seven more? Have a dozen, sir, or twenty. Every man-jack'll want to go."
Then as they held him back he began to talk in a rapid disconnected way. "'Bliged to take it so hungry yes, sir please, sir I've come back, sir come back, Mr Sibery, sir if Mr Hippetts will let me stay where's Mother Curdley where's nurse!" "O father!" whispered Helen excitedly! "Poor, poor boy! what does this mean?"
I had a fellow, now, in this yer last lot I took to Orleans 't was as good as a meetin, now, really, to hear that critter pray; and he was quite gentle and quiet like. He fetched me a good sum, too, for I bought him cheap of a man that was 'bliged to sell out; so I realized six hundred on him. Yes, I consider religion a valeyable thing in a nigger, when it's the genuine article, and no mistake."
"I s'pose some on 'em ain't very comf'able with them drill-sergeants shoots theirselves in barracks sometimes. Yer see, when a man 'lists, he can't pitch it up again and say `I've had enough of this." "No, they're 'bliged to stick to it," said Smiler, "'less someun buys 'em out.
"Humph! and in search of supper, too, of course, and everybody gone away or gone to bed but you and me!" At this moment the ringing was followed by a loud knocking. "Marse, don't less you and me listen to it, and then we ain't 'bliged to 'sturb ourselves with answering of it!" suggested Wool. "'Sdeath, sir!
"I'm much 'bliged, Buck," thanked Sandy, "but yer needn't bother. I'll bring her down, an' the next galoot that takes her an' lets her git away from him, is goin' to hear from me." Sandy retraced the course he had come, and after turning on the other side of the bridge, had no trouble in finding his boat. She was lying on a sand-bar, but he soon succeeded in floating her and bringing her ashore.
Hank moved uneasily, seeming to squirm in his saddle. "No, it ain't," he finally admitted, with a half grin; "that's Thunder Mounting about twenty mile ahead o' ye. None o' us fellers keers a heap 'bout headin' that-a-way. Twice I've been 'bliged to explore the canyons thar, arter lost cattle; but I never did hanker 'bout the job. It's a good place to keep away from, Frank."
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