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"Eh? . . . There's no risk in that. You may say what you like of Captain Hocken or of Captain Hunken: but they're honest as children. The money's as safe with them as in the bank." "Well, it do seem to me a dashin' and yet a very cold-blooded way of choosin' a man. Now, if I was taken with one " "Well?" prompted Mrs Bosenna, as Dinah paused. "Call me weak, but I couldn't help it.
"A little drink right now to help you along, eh?" He strode over and opened the door. "Hey! Shorty!" For answer there came only the wail of an old pirate song. "Listen!" said Lawlor, turning to his guest with a deprecating wave of the hand. "A cook what sings! Which in the old days I wouldn't have had a bum like that around my place, but there ain't no choosin' now."
"You were not checked for fwhat you did not do, an' made a mock av afther. 'Twas for less than that the Tyrone wud ha' sent O'Hara to hell, instid av lettin' him go by his own choosin', whin Rafferty shot him," retorted Mulvaney. "And who stopped the Tyrone from doing it?" I asked. "That ould fool who's sorry he didn't stick the pig Mullins." His head dropped again.
'You were not checked for fwhat you did not do, an' made a mock av afther. 'Twas for less than that the Tyrone wud ha' sent O'Hara to hell, instid av lettin' him go by his own choosin', whin Rafferty shot him, retorted Mulvaney. 'And who stopped the Tyrone from doing it? I asked. 'That ould fool who's sorry he didn't stick the pig Mullins. His head dropped again.
The man brushed aside the beads of sweat from his broad forehead. "An' Nan's goin' to do jest as she notions. She's goin' to live around her home as long as she feels that way. When she don't feel that way she's goin' to quit. When she feels like choosin' a man fer herself why, I'm goin' to do all I know helpin' her that way. But it's goin' to be her choice, boy.
"I've read everything I can lay my hands on about it. I've got a notion that if there's any choosin', after we get through here, I should like to go to Mars for a while, or as long as I was a little homesick still, and wanted to keep as near the earth as I could," he added, quaintly. Westover laughed.
To "have a heart" was like "heaping coals of fire" on people's heads, in minister's language, he supposed. And he wasn't so fond of that. But anyway he gave in. "All right," he agreed, "come 'n, where'll we play?" "Here," said Fatty, "this big rock'll be home-plate, and that one over there by the chestnut tree 'first. An' we'll choose up sides first choosin'!"
You are both young ladies, and haven't lived long enough to have it cast up in your teeth that you're not wed; but there be those who scorn us for choosin' to keep by each other, and not do as most young maids do. Patty and me have had our chances, but Patty's lad couldn't take us both, and 'twas the same with my lad, and neither of us could bear to be away from the other.
Of course there'll be a turkey apiece; there's got to be, if there's any sense in arithmetic. Oh, I'll be choosin' between breast-meat and hind-legs on Thanksgiving, you bet your sweet life on that!" This expectation that there would be a turkey a-piece was not shared by Company I; but no one denied it in Charley's hearing.
Wan day, howiver, he tuk me apart very polite, for he cud be that at the choosin'. "'You're a good sodger, tho' you're a damned insolint man, sez he. "'Fair words, Sargint, sez I, 'or I may be insolint again, "'Tis not like you, sez he, 'to lave your rifle in the rack widout the breech-pin, for widout the breech-pin she was whin Vulmea fired.
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